FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 158, 2 July 1879, Page 2

FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Garibaldi's return to Rome (writes " Atlas " in the ' World ') was the occasion of an affecting demonstration of popular love, which recalls to mind one of the most characteristic episides of his glorious career. When he entered Naples lie was exceedingly tired, and he went to bed at once. He had just fallen asleep when an enormous crowd of lazzaroni rolled to the piazza in front of the palace, and began to shout deafening evvivas. At once Luigi Gusmeroli, the faithful friend of the Liberator, sprang to the door, and said in a low tone, "The General is asleep." From the foremost ranks of the crowd the password went in a few seconds the round of the piazza ; immediately, as if under the spell of a magic force, a dead silence was established. "We had better go, and let him. rest," whispered the men one to [the other. They turned back and left on tip-toe. In a minute- the piazza was empty.

In determining the age of horse*. pay=the ' Weekly News,' the teeth hare been until very recently only guide ; and up to nine years they are regarded as a sure and unfailing indication ; but in America fhey have discovered another method of finding out this matter, and ' that is •by -wrinkles. This new method applies more particularly to all horses. A gentleman from Alabama, jvrho has great confidence in this, theory, says on this subject : —Up to the- age of nine are an unfiling'guide, but beyontfthisWg the dental test is Powerless. . another equally infffpKfef* test, however. It is this : After a horse ■'

is nine years old a wrinkle comes on the eyelid at the upper corner of the lower lid, end every year thereafter he has one well-defined wrinkle for each year over nine. If, for instance 1 , the horse has three wrinkles, he is 12 :if fcur, he is 13. Add the number ef wrinkles to nine and you will always get it. One thousand pounds, bequeathed in 1853 to accumulate 25 years, and then to be devoted to erecting a memorial to Wallace and Bruce in Edimburgh, is to be put to the intended use presently by the Town Council.

A will shortly introduce to the British' public a new Scotch working man poet in Mr Alexander Anderson, whos/i " Songs and Ballads" are in the press. He is a "surfaceman" in Dumfriesshire.

A girl who recently ; shot her seducer because he refused so keep his promise of marriage hats just been acquitted at Bordeaux ; and yet French law takes into no account breach of promise. All the streets leading to the Melbourne Exhibition building are, before the opening to be laid down with new metal, which is to be bound withasphelte, in order to make the traffic way noiseless. The rabbits are now so firmly established in the Cape Otway Forest, Victoria, that there is no hope of their being dislodged. Having eaten all the gra«s and thistles, they have now attacked the roots of the trees.

Two Kentucky lovers have centered their affections upon a.damsel who would be happy with either. A walking match has been proposed, and the successful competitor will get tliergirl. It is proposed by the Preston Town Council to establish a new free library and museum on an unusually extensive scale. The building is expected to cost about £50,000. An international exhibition, to be held at New "York in 1883, is projected. The gentlemen who have taken it in hand are in the front rank of manufacturers, capitalists, and business interests.