Widnes Examiner. — 1892-08-27 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

DOSSACK AND THE PANTIIER.—MoguI Tar,' trY (says Holman, the blind though entertaining etiaiveller) is cold and ruggad in the extreme, and ' 5O dangerous to the tiaveller, in consequence of - . Ae. great number af wild animals that inhabit it. i %singular reneontre took place some time since in ; a neighbourhood of the Chinese frontier between ee nssack and a panther, an animal which is exraiglY rare in this country. A young Cossack, ae Pecting one day a track in the woods, and obst;l'ing the footsteps of an animal which were tt,age to him, returned to communicate the cirstance to his father, who mounted his horse, la„, a all axe in his hand, and, followed by his dog, a,,,`11t in search of him. He was soon distrevered between some rocks, whence he reCe"ted to another lair, but was pursued by the aa:ilack. As the latter approached, the animal a spring upon the horse, placing one foot on fore part, and the other on his hind part, with 14 input"' between widely open upon his pursuer, ' from the dreadful urgency of the case, thrust kzse'eft hand and arm down his throat, and, with his lull; at length destroyed MTh. The intrepid fellow's esti 'was, however, so much lacerated, that he has provrelY lost the use of it. The animal, which 6. ed to be a panther, was subsequently sent to ez:Petersberg, where it is now preserved in the the anara ; and his Imperial Majesty directed that Lie k'assack should be provided for, as a reward for tsba'ravery, and a recompense for the injury susLed in this extraordinat y combat. totitlonllTY.—Shatne I that any should have been teilt,A.'' t? speak lightly of liberty, whose worth is so tietc"eq„..—whose benefits are so numerous and so lt il., aloralists have praised it—poets have sung essq.'"e gospel has taught and breathed it—patriots tsg, martyrs have died for it. As a temporal blessArks it is beyond all comparison and above all the e• It is the air we breathe—the food we eat ainaent that clothes us—the sun that enlightens, , gtvivifies, and gladdens all on whom it shines. siteirut it, what are honours and riches, and all hekr'r,, endowments? They are trappings of a Voitce----they are the garnishings of a sepulchre: and fili e 1 t the crust of bread, and the cup of water and WhierlY hovel, and the barren rock, are luxuries Vibe it reaches and enables us to rejoice in. He .1;4131,,1,1n0ws what liberty is, and can be glad and when placed under a tyrant's rule, and at the of a tyrant's caprice, is like the man who ,ee h and be in merry mood at the grave, where Aovaltas just deposited all that should have been Atlease„e„st in his eye, and all that should have been to his heart. What is slavery, and what it ~,' do? It darkens and degrades the intellect 'Ottea'ralYees the hand of industry—it is the ~.it 'her of agonising fears and of sullen revenge tleetirushes the spirit of the bold—it belies the tiovv,„ ties, it contradicts the precepts, it resists the it sets at defiance the sanctions, of religion the tempter, and the murderer, and the 'otte„, of virtue—and either blasts tho felicity of over whom it domineers, or forces them to tisr,s(or relief from their sorrows in the gratificaksai' and the mirth. fil!,l the madness, of the h°tir•—Dr. A. Thow-m's Sermons, 1629. "ty ' elephant has more muscles in its trunk than their°ther creature possesses in its entire body, b'hole"aiber being no less than 40,000; while the titaell.oa_Of a man's muscles only number 727. The va'rii or trunk of the elephant, which contains :geed ' quantity of small muscles, variously inter,ls extremely flexible, endowed with the most sensibility and the utmost diversity of tr'"fl'r ar ,„, ~-CII A Foot AS HE Locas.—Stranger it timakustance riding to find the wood where the Fit., ~nleet : Hullo! young Balham, how far is ittryegetireetham Wood ? Rustic ; Dun no. &roil lir i But you must know, you young stupid, pf'' it bve in these parts.—Rustic : I dun no how but that there's Greatham Wood in front tite4Taiti tr:er othN4. sight of the afterglow of the snnset li(i tbe n night, an enterprising reporter •rushed 4il,einrest haute"' " Drive me to that fire," L; ~, ed to the cabman. "It ain't a are, -"its s ie- the intelligent cabby; "it's the holy  c' Z 411)! ole obo 4,111