ADELAIDE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 266, 10 November 1871, Page 4

ADELAIDE.

Lady Edith Fergusson is dead. The funeral procession was a mile in length. The deficiency in the revenue is stated in the Budget speech to be £76,000, which it is proposed to make up by Stamp Duties. Wheat market firmer.

Home. — Let not him who has sojourned in a distant land give way to his longings to revisit the scenes of his early years, and retrace the walks of his youth ; let him keep the moan tains and the sea betwixt him and his place of birth. Shrined in his heart, and glowing with the light of happier days, lies the fairy land of memory ; but to revisit its scenes would be to dash the picture with shade, and to strike out from it the fair familiar faces that gladden our dreams, or touch them with the dreary traces of time. Let him therefore enjoy the beauteous vision as it exists in memory, but nofc seek to view the reality with a faded eye and a disenchanted heart. — Malcolm. School Prizes. — Iu Prussian schools the proficiency of the pupils is decided by the number of errors made, and not by value of points' as in England, &c, which is a gross deception, as a pupil may get 800 out of 2000 marks allotted to any subject, which may sound very satisfactory to his friends, who learn, that he has passed with 1200 marks in that branch ; but none but those behind the scenes know what a large number of gross mistakes have been made. Wishing to be Young. — "Give me back my youth again," did you say ? Friend, it's a mistake. Ten to one you wouldn't have it again, if you could. If old Time were to come bodily to you tb-day, saying, "Take back, oh wise,; middlerfiged noodle, these twenty past ; years of your life, with all the pains and disappointments which have made you; clear-sighted and sound-headed, with all the occasions on which you made a longeared donkey of yourself; worry through; a second time all the tight boots and tribulations, all the toothaches and heartaches of your youth; do, be, and suffer it all again; be, in short, once more just the soft young noodle you were twenty, years ago " — ten of manhood's - hearty; hopes to one dolorous wail for your lost; youth, that you answer, " Pass on,\ Father, Time ! •. And you may as w«ll tip those' twenty golden, fiand-grains back into the] ap^^h-airdf J yoar^hourglaßfl. I do not; • :^yi^ : tiim^ly:'- : ■'■ .'■: '•' ■ ■ '.• '■■', '

Pensioner on the Civil List. — A correspondent asks for a definition of " pensioner." It is one who is too lazy or 100 poor to support himself, and therefore lives on the charity of the State, out of (axes principally paid by hard-working men and women. The Famine in Persia.— The following is the translation of a letter fromaPersiau convent to Christianity. The Rev. Reuban Jehangirshaw received it in this city on Saturday : — " Peace be unto you, my brother! Our country is now Buffering the direst calamity compared to which the situation of France during the time, or before the time, of her surrender is a trifle. Our mothers and fathers are eating their children. Our husbands are doing the same with their wives. Grown up children are killing their younger brothers and sisters, and in some instauces their fathers and mothers for food. Food, food is all the cry ! The famine in the time of Pharaoh is eclipsed ! Because we have no Joseph. True, the neighboring countries have contributed to us what they can. But it, is not enough to feed our millions. We did the same, again and again, when it was our tuvu to do. God bless those who will now pity us, and God grant the great American nation will contribute their mite to relieve us of our great sufferings. "Bombay, June lOtb, 1871." A Town Built to Order. — The following account of Riverside, in Illinois, is condensed from a letter to a New York newspaper : — " It entered into the mind of the originator of Riverside to do that in the begiuning which the inhabitants of villages, towns, and cities sometimes do, and always wish to do, after the population is there, and when it costs much more to do it. He determined to prepare a city, , and depend upon people to live in ifc when it was completed. Sixteen hundred and four acres of land were purchased, situate from the business centre of Chicago, and four miles from the city boundary. A lovely and lively stream runs through it, and it has the only piece of stood woodland near the city. The Chicago and Quincy railroad runs through the tract, affording the residents 12 trains daily each way between it and Chicago. The new town was commenced in June, 1869, wheu the only building on the ground was a large stable, which was removed bodily to the distance of a mile and, a half. Sinco that date the company have completed nine and half miles of roads, 25 to 30 feet wide, finely laid, gutterred, and drained, winding handsomely and bordered with grass; they have made 7 miles of tar and gravel walks, 16 miles of sewers, 5^ miles of water-rnains, and s|miles of gaapipes. The gasworks cost 100,000 dol., and gas lamps light up the roads aa in the city. Water is supplied from an artesian well 739 feet deep which was dug in three months and yields 250,000 gallons a day. There have been planted, since June 1869 47,000 shrubs, 7,000 evergreen trees, and 32,000 deciduous trees ; of the latter 2,500 were large shade trees, some of them 19 inches in diameter and 80 feet high. Special machiuery has been used to take up and move these. One tree and the earth attached to it weighed 25 tons. They have contracted for setting out 30,000 elm trees during the present year. Of the 1,604 acres, 740 acres have been appropriated to parks, roads, and paths. The large park along the watercourse contains 180 acres ; it has already a wellgrown wood of oaks, elms, hickories, and black walnut trees. The artesian well now throws water to the height of 39 feet, and supplies the second storey of the houses. The well is surmounted by a handsome tower of brick and stone, which cost 17,000 dollars. The company have erected a Swiss building for a refectory, cantaining large dining rooms, private supper rooms, handsome parlours, and a large assembly room, capable of holding au audience of three hundred persons. Around two of the storeys are broail verandahs, which overhang the river. This building cost 40,000 dollars. In the vicinity is a charming stone cot- 1 tage, which cost 11,000 dollars, intended for billiard and smoking rooms. By the Ist of next July an hotel will be completed at a cost of 70,000 dollars. There is a handsome stone church, which cost 13,000 dollars, and, a block of stores and offices of stone and red Milwakie bricks, which cost 14,000 dollars, Bbathouses are now in building by the company, and a noble drive is half-finished to connect Riverside with Chicago. The enterprise is successful. Besides the public buildings abovementioned,. 47 fiDe dwellings have been erected, of which a number have beeD occupied by some of the wealthiest citizens of Chicago. The lots are sold on condition that bo house shall stand within 30 feet of the road, or cost less than 3,000 dollars. One of the dwellings has cost upwards of 20,000 dollars. Only one : house is allowed to be built upon n lot 100 feet in front; the lots are2so feet in depth. Purchasers bind themselves to build within j a year." ; ; ;