A LIVELY PLACE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 59, 9 March 1880, Page 4

A LIVELY PLACE.

They are having another revolution in that lively a'fod energetic republic, San Domingo, which, however^ makes only 21 during the present fiscal year. The saddle-coloured children of the bird of freedom will have to hump themselves to make up their average by Jaa 1. Last year their revolution business was better, and the captain of a San Francisco barque relates that once, while entering the principal harbour of that island, he discovered a native swimming desperately out to sea, whom they dragged onboard much exhausted. He : was asked for an explanation. "I am President of the Republic," he said; "elected yesterday morning " Just at this moment they notice i a

prodigious noise on the beach* and in a few moments the sailors hauled in another fugitive. " Ah ! *' said the firßt comer gravely : " Captain, let me present my successor." And the Captain went on to state that in less than a week his vessel was so crowded with their ex-Escellencies that he was compelled to set sail in order to avoid being starved out or swamped.

There is a youth who, eyery time he wishes to get a glimpse of his sweetheart, cries " Eire " directly under her window. In the alarm ofthe moment she plunges her head out of the window, and inquires, " Where ?"— when he poetically pats himself on the bosom and exclaims, ' ' Ere, my Carolina !" ■ ■ wi ■'**" ■■ ■ v- * » ■ i.*..-.i-