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CRUMBS.
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5s. Gd. a day.
Majority of 14.
Will March be hot ?
Wait a little longer.
A good time coming.
Rollicking "Confusion."
Fine rains in the Barrier.
The G.O.M. won't resign.
Beach has beaten Clifford.
Unemployed going North.
Pathetic scenes in Sydney.
Professor of Music arrived.
Sad accident that in Sydney.
There is distress in Mauritius.
Is Mac one of the unemployed ?
Economy the order of the day,.
The fire "did not kill the Bunyip.
Eurterpe's stock not all died out.
Juanna won the Hopeful Stakes.
Over 500 Post-Offices now in S.A.
Palmy days for Port carters gone.
Seed-wheat Fund debt cleared off.
Patriotic fellows those Welshmen.
Land racket going on in Melbourne.
Bismarck again bouncing Reichstag.
Ulysses Grant suffering from cancer.
General election in England shortly.
Is logic the science of common sense ?
Moonta miners leaving for Silverton.
Team to face English Elevenjselected.
Mr. Froude has gone to New Zealand.
New paper to be started at Port Pirie.
Two old colonists joined the majority.
"™ ~ .riEE.
The Government will revise the taril
Great struggle in Imperial Parliament.
Confusion worse confounded at Nairne.
Silverton coach crowded last Saturday.
Losing sleep is losing strength and grace.
No one edified at the Freethought Hall.
Tenders accepted for 200 railway trucks.
Mr. Patterson's properties in the market.
Four inches of rain at Charlotte Waters.
What about those tights at Crystal Brook ?
Sir Thomas Elder's Dreed to the-fore again.
The Bmyip has swallowed up a newspaper.
A clairvoyant declares Gordon is still alive.
Churches feeling the commercial depres
sion.
No one in Adelaide need be out of work a
day.
Bismarck vexed with England; of course
he is.
A practical way of showing who needs
work.
Many hopeful signs to those who will read
them.
Baptists going to liquidate their Church
debts.
City property beginning to change hands
again.
Purse of sovereigns—acceptable gift these
times.
£95,000 received on Saturday by Land
Office.
Volunteers bad stiff inarch on Saturday
night.
Pass the Redistribution Bill and then dis
solve.
Encampment at Balaklsva—appropriate
place.
Jarvis virtually won that match for Aus
tralia.
Mahdi's spies hanging about British
forces.
The Arabs are in possession of the Abuklea
Wells.
Kenny has challenged Moore to another
match.
Men, dcn't refuse work just to keep up
prices.
With rigid economy we will soon turn the
corner.
Hunter, Stevenson, & Co. offer 8s, in the
pound.
Some Germans talking of going to New
Guinea.
Work for the unemployed now if they will
take it.
Telegraph to Silverton to be constructed
shortly.
Are all those 200 wagons to be made in the
colony ?
Deputation to Commissioner of Public
Works.
Better fight at the Grange than at the
Soudan.
One poor woman carried the rifle of her
husba&a.
Railway delay at Strathalbyn to be
avoided.
This rain will be welcomed by thrifty
farmers.
Are the Government trimming towards Por
tection ?
Wheat has fallen to a " point hitherto un
known."
IVo attention is given to a vote in the Houee
of Lords.
The Parramatta had big batch of old
colonists.
Mr. Chamberlain is one of Henry George's
converts.
General Wolseley's eyesight seriously
impaired.
Must a grandfather support his grand
children?
Co-operative Society has over 2,000
members.
Ned-o'-the-Hiils and Dutchman are from
Eueterpe.
100 men already promised join Easter en
campment.
Some of the greatest battles were fought
on Sunday.
Commissioner of Taxes now at. the receipt
of customs.
Mr. Service still harping on federation and
annexation.
Extension of Fort passenger station carried
out shortly.
Kangaroo Island has a new industry—gum
from yaccas.
Government providing lot of work for dis
tressed men.
Tenders for Silverton Railway out six
weeks hence.
Rev. Goodenough Taplin leaves Wallaroo
for Woodville.
Silverton land and property sale on Thurs
day, March 12.
30,000 sovereigns imported by Town and
Country Bank.
Land sold at Silverton, New South Wales,
at £12 per foot.
Areas Express now appears as Port Pirie
Advertiser also.
Who is the colonist who sent in the first
taxation return 1
£400 per foot in King William-street; not
bad these times,
Counting Parnellites as nothing, Tories were
in minority of 58.
Chamier, Delohery, and Heiman beat Black
bnrne in Sydney.
Government going in for encouragement to
native industries.
Let us be prepared to do any honest
work for a living. , , , .
New South Welshmen in England helping
Sydney contingent.
An unanswered question—Who committed
the Findon outrage ?
Eight years for stealing a watch; but he
was an old offender.
Rev. Fletcher bitterly hot against dis
tillers Sunday night.
Former sins have evidently heen remem
bered against Staer.
The Modern Diogeneses—Suean Dalcomb
ard Clara Anderson.

Rev. C. C. Elcum vicar of magnificent
- church in Liverpool.

The comiug popular idea—Evening classes
-Adelaide University.

Mr. Russell deplores Dr. Cockburn's Pro
tectionist proclivities.

Duty of _2s. Gd. per 100 lb. imposed on corn
imported into France.

Conservatives willing to accept office. Not
just yet say the Liberals.

> Two thousand bales wool arrived at Port
Victor from the Darling.

Mr. E. Wakefield says the Devil sometimes
invents taxation schemes.

Tenders for goods-trucks, covered vans, and

horse-boxeB to be called for.

The Bluebook gives a different version to
Blood-and-Iron's little game.

Australia has by a singular privilege taught

the world a lesson. Hurrah!

Will the Government keep a prospecting
party to search for minerals ?

Exciting kangaroo hunt in King William
street on Wednesday evening.

Mr. Playford will consider the question of
cutting up the stock reserves.

Phosphorized oats doing destructive work
among the rabbits in Victoria.

A quarter of a million people witnessed the
departure of the Sydney boys.

Taxing all foreign imports—that's Earl of
Dunraven's absurd suggestion.

Mr. Grainger hopes Mr. Colton will soon
resign on account of ill-health.

Is this demonstration oi the unemployed
promoted by the Protectionists.

Nothing new under the Bnn—the Devil as a
political economist and financier.

Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates
both the holder and the beholder.

Napoleon once said the power of putting an
end to all war rested with women.

Mr. Johnson wants to place heavy duties
■ on articles of general consumption.

Allerdale says Ministry, though remarkable
for their size, are deficient in sense.

Professor Ives can't practice on the organ
for ten days or so; accident to foot.

Even with the solid vote of the Parnellites
the Tories could not get a majority.

■ Mr. Johnston wishes thousands besides
himself had Protection on the brain.

Taxpayers will be informed all in due time
when they must send their money in.

According to a Melbourne clairvoyant,
1 Gordon is imprisoned in a Bmall cell.

Trade of Silverton for eight months
imports, £176,000; exports, £2G0,000.

Ordeal through which we have passed
speaks volumes for stability of colony.

Congregationalists and Baptists making
efforts to clear their Churches of debt.

Councillor RounBevell denies that present
distress is attributable to land speculation.

The Farnellites will vote against any
' Government that will not grant Home Rale.

Government willing to start unemployed
on reservoir construction work—5s. 6d. a day.

Lots of quack remedies for the depression.
- Common Bense says work,"hope, and economy.

N.S.W. contingent will be able to telegraph
to their friends from seat of campaign free of

cost.

The Scotchman who tumbled off a bicycle
says in future he intends to "let wheel

alone."

Bismarck's threat to dissolve his Reichstag
is just what the Socialists want, and he

knows it.

Defenders of Kassala made unsuccessful
, attack upon Mahdi's followers and 600 of

them killed.

The Radical member of the Liberal Govern
ment of England has a great down on land
monopolists.

Granville now threatens the Bear. Little
John Russell once tried the same game—and
. got sat upon.

Fair words without good deeds to a man
in misery are like a saddle of gold clapped on

a galled horse.

Mr. Ham Dick, formerly a prominent foot
baller here, goes with the Sydney contingent
to the Soudan.

The Baptists in Victoria have raised over
£50,000 within a month or two for denomina
tional purposes.

Tender oi M. C. Davics accepted for 100
railway trucks; ditto of Edwin Smith for
another hundred.

The distance run by the S.A. railways in
1883 was equal to sixty-two times the circum
rence of the globe.

Duke of Cambridge says offers of military
assistance from the colonies are accepted if
troops are required.

Prince Hassan Pasha, brother of the
Khedive, is to assume Governor-Generalship
of Soudan provinces.

Eloquent valedictory speech that of the
New South Wales Governor. It savours of
the rhetorical Dalley.

The Secretary of the Tariff Revision Asso
ciation is also Secretary to the unemployed
moveraeqt. Curious.

Simple John Bull buys our Australian
mutton as prime English Southdown, and
pays double price for it.

Port Germein wants Mr. Clement Giles to
become a Legislative Council candidate.
What saith ye Clement?

Alderman Fox, when told he was obtuse,
demanded the meaning of the word, as be

wanted it " taken down."

Kingston (loq)—The present Government
are no eight hours a day men. " Two-and-a
half hours" interjected a wag.

Action of England's colonies worthy of
being an example and lesson to the world—
that's what W. E. Forster says.

Mr. McNamara is going in for pedigree
sheepfarming, having for a start Corrington,
Hill River, and Bungaree blood.

The Prince of Wales haB shown his nsual
good sense by not asking for a vote for his
eldest son, who has come of age.

France must feel deeply indebted to her
neighbour across the Rhine for the great in
terest now shown in her welfare.

What shall be done to the man who
imported sparrows'eggs and heads from Mel

bourne for the sake of the bonus ?

How can it be less inquisitorial to have to
pay on the value of everything we possess
than to pay a land and income tax ?

The Crown Solicitor should talk to some of
his subordinates as to the slovenly way cases
are got up for the Criminal Sittings.

Alderman Fox does not believe in the
" Upotian" schemes of the new members of
the Council. Did he mean Utopian?

Sowing the seeds of distrust in the rela
tions of England with France and Germany—
that's what Granville has been doing.

" Some business men thought more of the
Register than of their Bibles!" Ought not
ledgers to be substituted for Register?

Miss Caldwell, of St. Louis, has given
300,000 dollars for the embellishment of a
Roman Catholic University in America.

Do not consider any vice as trivial, and
therefore practise it; do not consider any
virtue as unimportant, and therefore neglect

it.

The late Duke of Wellington says, " I do
not remember the word ' glory' in any of my
father's Bayings, despatches, or other writ

_ Sr. Kingston attributes Minister of Jus

tice's illness to the weather and hardships of
travelling. The statement was received with
laughter.

The number of decrees of divorce granted
in the Court of Session in Scotland during
1884 lias exceeded by eight that of any pre
vious year.

A lot of infants were at the Zoo on Thurs
day, and when they came to the monkeys one
sharper than the rest called out, "Lookat
those frogs."

The Sydney chessmen last Thursday were
too strong for the chess champion. Black
burne won 2, lost 3, and drew 3 in his S-game
blindfold feat.

Out of sixty-three persons against whom the
Police Court considered there was prima
facie evidence, no leBS than thirty-five have
been dismissed.

Here is a very Odd Thought for you. You
may not steal, we all know,' yet there is no
harm in picking the pocket of a print-seller
if he has pic-tures.

A French milliner has invented a bonnet
trimmed with artificial asses' ears. The effect
iB described as striking; we should rather
say," ass" tonishing.

W. Jones knows that sparrows' eggs and
heads have been sent over from Melbourne,
and have been paid for out of the bonus fund

for their destruction.

McLoughlin got seven years in 1880. In
1885 he is again a candidate for a Government
billet. Either the Newgate or Gregorian
Kalendars want revision.

A plan is in preparation for sending
Dutch milk to London daily, and for the
purpose four steamers will ply between
Amsterdam and Harwich.

Oscar Wylde says if people knew how
much was spent yearly in ladies' bonnets
alone, one half would be filled with remorse
and the other half with despair.

It is proposed in Wiltshire to raise fands
for a memorial window to the Duke of

Albany, which is to be placed in Salisbury
Cathedral. It will cost about £400.

All that Commissioner of Taxes requires

up to March 21 is the returns duly filled up;
after that he will give notice by circular
when the payments are to be made.

Here is another very Odd Thought. When
a Blue Ribbonite talks about drunkenness,
he is certain sure to break his vow, because
he invariably indulges in bitter rail. M

" Do you understand me now?" thundered
a country pedagogue to an urchin at whose
head he threw an inkstand. " I've got an
enl-ling ot what you mean," replied the boy.

"Twilight parties" are the l&teBt winter
novelty in New York society. No light is
permitted except the glow of huge fires,

which gives a picturesque Rembrandt effectj

to the scene.

Mr. F. McNamara, J.P., the well-known
Clare Bportsman, has pleasure in knowing
that two colts bred by him were sold in Mel
bourne last week, Ncd-o'-the-Hills 500 gs.,
Dutchman 45 gs.

In India and in South Africa Gordon failed
to work either with an almost autocratic

ruler of a great dependency in the former or
with a constitutional colonial government in
the other.

Mr. Vanderbilt, on coming into possession
of General Grant s property as security for
his loan of $150,000 to tne General, offered to
present the whole of it to Mrs. Grant, who,
however, declined the gift.

Mr. Chamberlain asks—Is it a right of
property which permits a foreign speculator
to come to Great Britain to lay waste two
hundred miles of territory in Scotland for
the gratification of his love of sport?

Several of the Companies of London not
having made a full return of their income to
the Royal Commission, it is impossible to
give the exact figures, but the aggregate cor
porate income ef the twelve great Companies
is about £363,000, and tne trust income
£147,000—total, £510,000.

The trade of Calcutta for the year 1883-81
amounted to the very considerable value of
828,403.353 rupeeB, or nominally more than
80 millions sterling. This showB an increase
in value in two years of nearly eight
millions sterling, although the bulk had
only progressed at about half the same rate.

Philadelphia has a nose-blanching Profes
sor, who reduces red noses to proper colour
ana shape for S5 to $20 each. He applies
leeches to take out the blood, then electricity
to stir up the nerves and " restore the elasti
city of the arterial and nervous fibre," and
finally puts on a plaster mould to give things
shape.

During the G.O.M.'s famous Midlothian
campaign his most violent tirades were
directed against faggot voters. Just fifty
years ago he and his brothers applied to be
registered as voters for the County of Ross,
but the Court rejected their applications as
the claims were made under fictitious con
veyances !

A marriage by telegraph has been annulled
by an Indiana Court. Miss Susan Orten, of
Pittsburg, answered a " personal" advertise
ment, corresponded with Thomas Welch, of
Indianapolis, and finally married him by
wire, found that he was a negro, and brought
suit to have the ceremony declared void,
which was done.

Ib it true that a vast amount of blood and

treasure might have been spared if General
Gordon had six or eight months ago put his
threat into execution of withdrawing from

Khartoum, either to the equator or to the

Congo OB be hinted; or if he had, when the
way waa open, returned to Cairo, acknow
ledging that his peaceful mission of with
drawing the Egyptian garrisons had failed ?

It is not generally known that the elabo
rate icing that imitateB frost and ice on
Christmas cards is done by scattering par
ticles of ground glass over gummed cards.
TheBe tiny atoms penetrate the lungs of the
poor girls employed in the manufacture, and
either kill them or render them very soon
almost helpless invalids. The danger is so
well understood that few English girls can
be found to undertake the business.

The Chief of the Berne Bureau of Statis

tics has figured out that if the increase of
population continues at the present ratio, in
150 years from now, or by January 1, 2,000,
Germany will have a population of 164
millions, Great Britain 142, Austria and
Hungary 70, France 64, and Italy 56. He
does not say anything about the United
States, but by analogy the figure for this
country ought to be about 200,000,000.

No great admirer of Gordon says:—"Cer
tainly some of the demands made by General
Gordan after his arrival at Khartoum were
of a kind to emanate from an autocratic and
irresponsible ruler rather than from a servant
of the Queen of England. We refer, of
course, to hiB asking for private subscriptions
to carry on the war, and to his threatening to
appeal to Turkey fcr troops to accomplish
the end he had in view, and also to his having
suggested the manst Baler Zebelir as Governor
of the Soudan."

In the past thirty years the average of a
man's life has improved 5 per cent.—from
41'9 to 48'9 years; and a woman's life 8 per
cent.—from 41*9 to 45*2. Of every 1,000
males born at the present day 44 more attain
the age of 35 than used to be the case previous
to 1871: and every 1,000 persons born since
1870 will live 2,700 years longer than before.
This is due to civilization, and especially to
improved sanitary methods, which is adding
an average of nearly ten years to human life
in every century.

The Contemporary Pulpit invited its
readers to express their opinion as to who
were the ten greatest preachers among the
Protestant Churches oil the world. Three
hundred and fifty lists were sent in, "mainly
from the clergy of the Anglican and Dis
senting communities," and from these the
following concensus has been obtained:—
Canon Liddon, 296; C. H. Spurgeon, 292 ;
Joseph Parker, 218; Alexander Maclaren,
212 ; Archdeacon Farrar, 206 ; Henry Wara
Beecher, 168; Bishop Magee, 150 ; Canon
Knox-Little, 149; Bishop Boyd Carpenter,
101; K. W. Dale, 100.

1 have read in a German newspaper that a
man's character may be read by his shoes.
"Show me your shoe," says the writer, "and
I will tell you your character." It appears
that if the heels and soles are used equally
the wearer is a good man of business, know
ing his own mind. He is also faithful. If a
woman, she is a good wife and mother. U,
however, the soles are worn on the outer side
more than the other, the wearer is given to
eccentricity, and has an adventurous dis
position. When worn more on the inner side
it is the sign of weakness, timidity, and
modesty. People majr now make experi
ments on their acquaintances, and see if
these remarks are true or not.

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