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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1120, 11 August 1882, Page 2

An Irish coroner's jury returned a rerdiot that deocased came to his death from exposura. 11 What do you mean by that ?" asked a relative of the dead man. “ There are two bnllek holes in his skull.” “Just so,” replied the coroner; “he died from exposure (a bullets," The relation in which the Jews stand to the wealth of the world is thus pointed out in the “ Pall Mull Onset to” “ All the loading European nations are mortgaged to the Jews, and these Jews form a cosmopolitan band who unite to sustain markets in times of emergency. The wealth of this band is so incalculable, its knowledge of machinery and devices of markets so intimate, that when it nets in unison it can, as a rule, bear down any obstacle and surmount any adverse oircum, stance. Of late tho task has been so pro. digious as to afford some guide to the strength of what may bo called this syndicate of race. It has hud thrown upon its hands through the monetary crisis in France and the troubles in Russia and in tho East, tho labor of maintaining at one and the same time the prices of Russian, Egyptian, Turkish, Austrian, gnij Hungarian stocks in addition to the temporary load of French, Italian, and German securi, ties of which it may perhaps bo now partially relieved. This group is, in short, compare* tively small in number, but powerful alike bv the great wealth it possesses, and by its great political power; and its complete tribal loyalty in groat emergencies has boon for months past, and is at the present time, sustaining the market for foreign Government stocks. Wo find it alike behind Spanish, Turkish, Hungarian, Russian, and Egyptian bonds. One cannot in fact contemplate tha greatness of the task undortakeq [y this modern band of usurers without abasement, or without thinking qf the ur.hoard of risks they run."

i There la an old adago that if enough j rope is given to a fool he will hang I himself with it, but it nppaara that' j ever since the world bpgan therq ha? ( been a scarcity of rqpe. I The skjll qf the Empress at Austria { in the saddle, gnd ht>V passion for hard riding, gave viso to an atunsing i incident in the Bois, at Paris, recently, Princess Hohenlohe hud, it appears, a ■ great desire to see Her Majesty on ■ horseback, and acoordinfly rode out to the woods several times, in the hop® of meeting her. Atlastshesuoueeded in finding the Empress, who graciously invited her Princess Ifohenlohe to a canter, Tfgr Majesty, who was preparing one or her favourite hunters fop n day’s spopt at Chantilly, kept increasing her pace tntil it became much too fast for the Princess. At lepgth after riding a long distance at a quick distance at a a nick gallop the Empress remqmherofi sl,o was not alone, and turning round in her saddle and remarkce to Princess llebonlohe, who by this time was senjiooly able to breathe “ Perhaps I am riding a little to quick’ foryou.—“ Sydney Daily Telegraph,’'