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West Coast Times, Issue 328, 11 October 1866, Page 1 (Supplement)

StrccESS in Life. — There is no greater ob> _ stacle in the way of success in life than trusting'for something to turn' up, instead of going to work and turning up something. A Frightful Contingency. — A farmer from the neighborhood of Galston took his wife to see the wonders of the microscope, w^iich happened to be exhibiting in Kilmarnock. The various curiosities seemed to please the good woman very well, till the animalcula contained in a drop of water camo to be shown off. This seemed to poor Janet not so very pleasant a sight as the others. She . sat patiently, however, -till the "watertigers," magnified to the size of twelve feet, appeai-ed on the sheet, fighting with their usual ferocity. Janet now rose in great tregidation, and cried to her husband, " For guxlesake, come away, John." "Sit still, v oman," said John, ' " and see the show." " See the show ! — gude keep us a', man, what wad come o' us if thae awfu' like brutes wad break oot o' tb^e water ?"

Hoee Snakes.—^Hardly a day passes but we hear of saake3 being killed. One ugly customer was despatched a few days ogo / on the Drysdale road, which, on measurement proved to be nearly four feet in length. On the 18th instant, a gentleman residing at Turkeith saw fourteen, out of which number he killed no less than eleven, none of them being less than three feet long. A lady writing; says " I would not believe Edmund when he told me, so lie said if I would go with him he would shew them to me. I went with him, and ho had shewed me five, and was about looking for the others when he trod on a live one, which flew at him, and put out its tongue at him." Now, this was highly indecorous on tbe part of his snakeship ; if he had made a face it would have been bad enough, but to put out his tongue in the presence of a lady — oh, shocking ! , One of the snakes killed was a black, the others all brown. All were killed within' a mile of tho house. *Tho same gentle* man also killed two f about a month ago. Kealh/, Turkeith must be a pleasant place to live in. — ," Geelong Advertiser," Sopt. 27. Eip Tan Winkle. — TheJ" Home News " of 26th July states, that Mr Jefferson's, health requiring a sea voyage, that popular actor has returned for a short time to America.

Several camels imported into South Australia for the carriage of wool from the far north, are said to be answering admirably. Tbe submarine cable connecting the Balearic Islands with the nuuuland js broken between Hiza and the coast of Valencia, and as that from Mahon to Barcelona is also out of M>rdcr, the inhabitants ure deprived of all telegraphic communication. Professor Agassiz caysjvthe general impression in regard to the Amazon Eiver is very erroneous, not only in regard to the climate of: tbatf region, which he had been informed was unhealthy^ but also as to its fertility. B?e found tlio valley of tho Amazon uncommonly v fertile, and its climate very healthy. It is his opinion that it. will one day become the mart oi" tlie world, supporting in comfovfc twenty millions of inhabitants.