, 1891-08-29

Ah-this is really good of Swipes-he knows
| ike Porto Rico cigars, and he sends me
some whenever he has a good chance. The
unconscious smuggler said he ielt so indig-
nant with SwipeS for having made a tool
and a tool of him, that if he could have got
at him at the moment, he would have plac-
ed the Customs maxi on his face.
A kitchen in Cha rlotte Street, that was
being repaired, s uddenly collapsed This
week, the whole ia brio tnmbling off it's nil
lars with a noise Ii Ike thunder, fortunately
when not even the cook was in III After
the noise had subside ed the cook was heard
praiSiAg the Lord that the ,MisSy's rot
wasn't "bruk." else she (the cook would
have had "to pay she for t." A sympathis-
er suggested to the cook thar she should
praise the Lord fl rom ''six to SIX that the
Kitchen did not fall upon her and that she
'did not dead" To which the cook replied
that it was "mo' BETA to dead at once dan
pay you money fo' pot wha' you amt help
Oruk." And to this piOuS sentiment several
OF the bystanders said, amen!
From Cayenne news has come of the ar
rival there of twO Gable steamers, one with
the shore end of the cable from Martinique
Otd Surlnam, the other with the shore end
of the cable from Brazil. This is the most
important step in telegraphic matters in
connection with the West Indies that we
have had the satisfaction to record since the
laying of the first cable that connected us
with the rest of the world. IL means not
only Il direct communication with Brazil
and those South American countries that
Brazil is linked with by cable, but-which
Is OF great consequence to the generality Of
our business men--a duplicate route to Eu-
rope and the States, whereby the serious
and expensive Inconvenience that so fire..
quentIy attends any interruption of the
hitherto only route vid Havan a will be OBJ
waited. If the short gap that separates our
colony from Surinam were oily filed up,
kilograms could be sent from here to Eng
land Uid Brazil for perhaps IL smaller sum
than is charged by the West Indian aud
Panama Company; but, for the present,
messages 10y the new route will have to be-
sent round about by M artinique, which is the
starting place or the new Cayenne cable.
Mr.. anne A. zap, d Chinaman at Peters
Hall, OF enterprising ways, was caught by
the Police on Sunday night selling rum with
out a license. He was doing q good bust
ness at the time, aud was so annoyed with
the police for their I'm timely interference,
that he ami his wife gave a policeman a
beating. James was presuming upon TIE
Imaginary Importance of his position. Only
first class Clubs are allowed by the police to
sell grog without n licence. ..
TIE East Indian il not behind our
Chinese immigrant in the matter of intelli-
gent enterprise. This week a. c0olie lad
was sent by the Secretary of the Demerara
Club with a cIleque to be- cOunterSigned by
the Treasurer, who is located in the British
Guiana Bank. Ha ing obtained the ne.
cessary signature, he went round to the
counter of the Bank and asked to have the
cheque cashed. The cashier never hesitate
ed a moment over the transaction, reoog-
nizing the genuineness of the signatures.
and the cOolie, having done a very fair days
business -about fifty dollarS-started for
the country, where he still is at large.
Some of our creole friends are not very
clear yet as to the meaning of the terms
bride and Bridegroom, and occasionally con-
found them. AT Plaisance not long since,
at Il marriage party, a prominent member
was asked If he was the groom one sab!
me a groom No sab, II is lie bride"
V1Gger: So much a people dead in we village,
must be a hundred, and cherry day some mo-.
Visitor: Ouw! Poo you ! An is wha make