Widnes Examiner. — 1893-01-21 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SCISICZE4 IN THE CAPITAL. OF  SENEGAL.  • Perhaps the place where one can see most of the varied life of the capital of Senegal is on the Tont Faidherbe, between half-past five and half-past six of an evening. This bridge is more than. a quarteeof a mile in length, and, as already stated, is made of limits moored fore and aft. When a south-westerly sll comes up from the mouth of the river, the bridge sways from one side to the other with a short vie. k movement, making it difficult for, persons not accustomed ta board-ship to keep their footing, and sometimes causing native children to suffer from mal-demer. When, however, the wind is in any other direction the bridge is perfectly steady, and after the heat of the day one can sit in the recesses made for the purpose and enjoy a little fiesh air while watching the passers-by. There is sure to be a Moorish caravan. consisting perhaps of half-a-dozen cameis4 coming it with heavy burdens from the interior, the tail of one animal tied by a light card to a ring in the nose of thin succeeding one, the procession headed by a single Moor, with his short lithe step, holding the, cord attached to the foremost camel. Some four or five others: walk by the side or the end of the caravan, Then ccme a batch of young girls returning from/ washing clothes at some roadside well Where the wateri is cleaner though perhaps more brackish than the river. water. The clothes are contained in large calabashes,' carried on the head, and steadied with one or both, uplifted arms. la spite of the distance they havd walked, and the ft.tigtip of ,maintaining their arms in that elevated position, they seem cheerful enough,' laughing and chatting as they move along, though the. burden they carry prevents them , from tuitnlfie! their head to right or left. Here pass, too, plenty of Jeloff , ,men, laughing and talking at the top of their voices as, they walk along at a swinging pace, brandishing their: 'heavy walking sticks, while their long white robes* ap out behind them under the impulse of the stronel ,evening • breeze. Much more slowly approach some: half-dozen Joloff women who have been attending at festivity at Sor, and are decked out in their most' gorgeous attire. They walk abreast, and take possesEgon of the bridge, looking with undisguised coatempt *tithe quiet-coloured garments of the Moorish women whom they meet. Soon a boy of 12, belonging to the poorer class, and wearing only the scantiest of loin clothe, staggers past under the weight of a freshly killed sheep from the slaughtering ground on the far- • ther side of the river. Senegal sheep are horned and' small, but they are too heavy for a young lad, and th. carcase with its gaping throat seems likely to drive the small black head which carries it down between the slender nformed shoulders.—From "Blackwood's Magazine.'  QUITE TIi.U,D! Sufferers ,irom Gravel. Lumbigo, Piles, Pains in the Back, Dropsy, Wind and Water Complaints. Diseases of Kidneys, Bladder, Urinary Organs, Stone, Gleet, Stricture, Sciatica, Rheumatism, and Gout, will find a positive cure in Holdroyd's Gravel Pills. Try a small box, and if not satisfied your money will be returned. Prise is lid. Of all chemists, or post free for 12 stamps from HOLDROYD'S Medical Hall, Cleckheaton, Yorks. Don't be put off. If you cannot get them write to the Proprietor, and a box will be sent next post.—Advt. John Shaw Trutnag, who stated that he was a native of Stockport, was arrested on Tuesday at Matlock on suspicion of murdering Mrs. Pearcey at Bromsgrove. It is stated that the axe with which the crime was committed was stolen from a building in course of alteration at 2irmingharn. ADVICE To MorrrEns t—Are you broken in your rest by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth? Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of Miss. WnsaLoW'S SooTxtrato B.