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1857 APRIL. 13

Remarkable days.

3 1 Civil Establishment ceases to

to he defrayed by the Home

Government, 1850. Slighzfalls of

Show.

PALM SUNDAY.

Napoleon sent to Elba.

Fire at Toronto. 1846.

Hudson’s Bay Company es—

tablished 1692.

:1 9 Falling Weather.

~_‘ 10 Conn FRIDAY.

' 12 EASTER SULDAY.

14 Peace with France, 1814.

‘3 l6 Showers.

' 18 First Newspaper published,

in America, 1701.

19 Low Sunday. 21 Still cold and frosty. ;, 23 St. George. Responsible

Government granted, 1851.

25 Princess Alice born 1853.

Parliament Houses burnt in Canada.

26 2d Sunday after Easter.

' , 27 St. Mark.

29 Clears up and I. 8 becomesjine.

Apopular writer, speaking

of the proposed oceanic tele—

graph, wonders whether the news transmitted through salt

1 water would be fresh.

The newspaper item was right, which records the accident ol" the sloop-wreck on the North ;, River, in September last, in these l'ow,_but graphic words :

“ While the storm was at its

height, the vessel heeled to the larboard, and the captain and another cask of whisky rolled :1 overboard.”

I think our church will last a

good many years yet,” said a : worthy but waggish deacon to

the minister ; “ I see the sleep- ‘ em are very sound.” "

In the pine barrens of Michi— f gran, not a thousand miles from Grand llapids, but four miles 3, |any other dwelling, is a mise- ‘; rable shanty of log shingles, hearing the lollowmg Sign :

“This is Uncle Dan T-hemnses Who always kept his promises; His virtuals and beer,

And other good cheer,

Can’t be heat about here.”

In Georgia, a short time ~. since, a boy from the woods 1 was at the depot when the train was on the track, and 3 as he was gazing in stupid . wonder at the fixins, and wandering in the cars, the whistle shrieked its unearth— ly sound, and in a. moment 1, more the whole thing was driving on at the rate of‘ “two-forty.” “Oh, lordy!” screamed the T boy, “ stop it, stopit! I ain’t L gwine!” and bursting open the door, he stood on the 5 platform between the cars. Just then the train was cros— sing a deep and cavernous— looking gorge on trestlc— work, and seeing the trees — and fields for below him, the {lightened booby fell on the 1 floor and fainted away. Pre— j sently he came to, and look— ' ing up at. the conductor, who {stood by him, he cried With. ,. ‘horror, “ Say stranger, tell me, oh, lordy! has the thing lit?” 3

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