The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue XI, 19 May 1880, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1880.

We would remind our readers that the concert in aid of the Wesleyan Sunday School will take place in the Academy of Music this evening at 7.30 sharp. An encellent programme has been arranged, and the best local amateurs hate kindly volunteered their services. Everyone who goes to the concert will receive a gift. The curtain rises at 730 sharp to the enlivening strains of selections from Pinafore. The Huntsmen will follow with ah excellent chorus and will introduce Mr Charles Brown of Nil Desperandum fame. After songs by Mrs May and Mr Robertson the " Soft Winds " of the choir will be wafted on the ears of the audience. Widdy McCrae will be ably represented, and will preface the appearance of the trio in "Ye Shepherds •tell me " that we are not " Strangers yet," but let us " List to the Convent bells," and "Behold how Brightly" shine the choir in " God Save the Queen."

A meeting of the Electoral 801l Com* mittee lapsed this morning for want of a quorum. The Mayor said that it was necessary that farther expenditure be incurred, in order to more "tborougly investigate the matter. He regretted the paucity of members present, and thought that the members of the committee were very lax in attending the meetings. The meeting was adjourned until next Thursday .week, the 27th inst, when probably a large attendance maybe expected. The pruning process has reduced our roll from 4,500 to 2,500, but the committee feel sure that that number could be materially increased. We would impress upon our readers the necessity of at once getting their names placed on the electoral roll.

We are informed that a Rinking Club has been successfully formed by Messrs Carrick, Crump, Symonds, and Gellion. The Lady Mayoress is President, and Mrs Kilgour fills the Vice-presidential chair. There are upwards of 60 members, and everything looks favorable to the young club. The season commenced last evening in St. George's Hall, when there was an excellent attendance of members. The music was of good character and the evening's amusement passed off very satisfactorily, and was, no doubt, thoroughly enjoyed by all who were present.

By rdvertisement in another column it will be seen that Professor Fraser .will deliver oae of his highly instructive and amusing in the Academy of Music to-morrow evening. Professor Fraser has organised a regular lecturing tour, and intends lecturing in Grahamstown periodically. The subject of tomorrow will be "Lore, Courtship, and Marriage." We have often listened with pleasure to Professor Fraser's lectures in Auckland, end have always been edified.

People who are fond of amusement and instruction combined, will do well to attend the discourse.

" J. L." sends us the following effusion, which for conciseness, point, and Oi'thographic nicety, is not surpassed by even the letters of Junius. We caonot fathom the phraseological depths* of the production, and, therefore, publish it verbatim et literatim in the hope that some of our readers will enlighten us as to the meaning of this specimen of editorial joy :— "Mr Skeasey to Country of difince workes assed a sertine man if he would go to worke with him and he said yes then the Coutry assed him if he had a showfil and he said now but he would soon get one got a now ane schoosed 7s 6d a'ie started to work when he worked half a day the country said have you got a barry and he said now he diding think that it would pay a laberry to carry a barry pick and showfil abought on his back so he leeft the worke.—J. L."

We clip the following from "Paddy Murphy'B visit to Tay Whittey," published in the Saturday Advertiser. The prophet on tiie occasion of his visit favored him with a song the words of which were :— I'm a profit wid a great big',P, An' ruler av tbe whole counthry ; I snap my finger at tbe .Guvmint taunts, An' bo do me aisthers, me cousins, an* mo aunts. I had a dhraime, a pleasant dhraime, Wbin iverything was stil 1 ; . I dhreamt I saw Sir George bring in A. purly Native bill; He stood up in the House an' spoke, In tones both loud an'high. An' Wakefield cried aloud, Bosh! smoke !" An' Pykc Bed " All mo eye." Oh Sir George and Johnny, don't ye ciy for me, . . ■ I'm gwine to laugh at Guvmint, and rn'e the hole counthry. I dhreamt that I got at the dodges of Halt'sThough Rolleston stood at his side, An' all who wor met in the Parliament wa!ls Had broken their pledgea an' lied ; The whips wor all rrrdy t > count, an' mo3t Wor purchased s.idout a'ay shame ; An' I also dhreamt that tbe Pakeyha host Wor diddled an' gulled jist the same. I dhreamt; that the peopl<^wor robb'd o' the lands, ..'■■,• An' nights wor r1! wf^tod in sprees, An' vows that no kon-etit-u-ints could withstand - Wor broken for tips an' for fees } An 91 thought that I saw an avengiu' ghost Stand forth the land ♦■•> claim; An'just as Sir George hi' i raygained 1'"" post, I woke an' 'twas all the ae. vxe.

That the horse is a noble animal is an axiom long ago accepted; but that the ass is just as courageous is not always admitted. An incident reported to the Daily Telegraph from Enniscorthy shows, however, that so far from being devoid of pluck, the donkey is a determined and pertinacious opponent. Encountering a red fox on the lawn of a Dr William Cookman, the ass accepted a challenge to battle with Beynard offered with much grace, and in an instant the pair joined in a deadly encounter. Three times the fox sprang at the nose of his antagonist, and obtaining a good hold, kept there until the donkey succeeded in knocking him off. At length, after a terafic struggle, the donkey succee'dr i in stunning the fox, whereupon he at once trampled his foe under foot, and then, batching the body in his t~sth, shook it as a .terrier would a r*;t. Victory was now assured, and, to signalise this, the ass ran round the lawn in triumph, carrying the corpse of his assailant with him, until he was finally relieved by a bystander. The defunct fox was thereupon found to have been a large thin animal of great power and ferocity, and altogether an opponent of nom an character, when the defenceless nature of the donkey was considered.

An unusual scene for E^ope —that of the sun pot selling, but shining through the whole night —is to be witnessed from the summit of Mount Aavax, in Finland, near Tpvneo, at 66 degrees northern latitude, every year on June 23rd, a multitude of people of different nations visit that mountain to witness the interesting spectacle. According to the reports of the Finn journals, this year there were on Mt. Aavax about 300 travellers; three of these were Englishmen, two Frenchmen, one Kussinn ; there were several Germans, Danes, and Swedes, and the rest were Finns. The Government of Finland is now erecting on Mt. Aavax a hotel for the accomodatioa of travellers.

An eminent divine from New England, travelling in Texas for his health, impaired by arduous clerical duties, upon arriving at one of the towns, went in search of the barber's shop for repairs an<l improvementis. On entering au establishment of this kind he observed a big, double* barrelled gun leading against the wall. Having a constitutional awe of fire-arms, ho hastily asked tae barber if the gun was loaded. A half-shaved native, who occupied the chair,-turned round in his latherbeaten face and exclaimed : " Stranger ! ef you're in &i aU-fired hurry, you'.'l find a six-shooter what is loaded in my* coattail pocket!"

The Railway Journal, au American newspaper, containing the latest intelligence with respect to horn? and foreign politics, the money market, Congress debates, and theatrical events, :s now printed and published daily in the trains runnings between New iTork and San Francisco. All the news with which its columns are filled is telegraphed from different parts of the States to certain stations on the line, there collectad by the editor'al staff travelling in the train, and set up, printed, and circulated among the subscribing passengers, while the iron horse is persistently traversing plains and valleys, crossing rivers, and ascending mountain ranges. Every mor jing the traveller may hare his newspaper served up with his coffee, and thus keep himself informed of all that is going on in the 'wide world during a seven days' journey covering over 30CD miles of ground. He who pays his subscription at New York, which he can do at the rai'.way ticket-office, receives the last copy of his paper on the summit of the Sierra Nevada. The production of arews sheet from a flying printing office at itn elevation of some 10,C33 feet above the lev??, of the sea is most assuredly a performance worthy of conspicuous record!:! journal'st'c annals and highly creditable to -Americaa enterprise.

The unrivalled ouccess of C. MgLiveb'b Smokin^rocms are quite apparent through the crowded state of his rooms nightly, enjoying and amusing th^raselvos at Draughts, Dotninooß, Cribbage, etc. The energy" and perseverance of 0. McL. in securing good brands of Tobacco and Cigars for the district is meeting with its just reward. N.B.— Great variety of ALariChaum, Briar, and Cherry wood Pipes.—C. McLiveK, Tobacconist. '

" Sin," she said, and the music of her voice thrilled the car, " sir, is this seat engaged?" He looked up at the vision of glo-rinp cheeks and laughing eyes, marble brow and clustering curls, and he relented, even the masher's heart, warmed toward the lovely, girl, the latest victim of his manly charms. " Oh, certaiuly not," he said, and his bow was a study of grace for the steam man. "Oh, certainly not;' you are entirely welcome; I shall be only too happy—" " Then," cried the charmed victim, "mother, you can sit here beside this gentleman." An old woman, seventy-three if she was a day, with no teeth and only one eye, a small box, a big band-box in a bag, a green reticule and an umbrella, two paper bags and a piece of calumus root, tottered into the proffered seat and sat down and piled her things into the young man's lap.