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Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 224, 16 May 1872, Page 8

The " Saturday Eeview " quotes, as the one good story of the book, a " yarn " to the following effect from a book of sporting adventures iv North America. It appears that in some secluded bays on the coast of Newfoundland the inhabitants, few in number, live and die without much intercourse with the outer world, and are of course very ignorant. A mine was discovered near one of these places, and a horse which had strayed from the works was shot by a settler, as a strange wild animal. He proceeded to skin his game, and got on very well till he saw the shoes, whe*n, seized with sudden terror, he fled from the spot believing that a phenomenon so unheard of could be no other than the work of the Evil One. \ The New York "Herald" states that an impious blasphemer, while the fire-fiend was raging in Chicago, harangued a multitude from the steps of the Court House inciting to disorder. He cried out, " Where is your G-od ? "Where is your G-od now ? Where are your God's angels now ? A policeman took him by the collar and confined him in the basement of the Court House. "What became of the blasphemer is not known— -the Court House wa.B soon after consumed,