CLIPPINGS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 145, 7 December 1877, Page 3

CLIPPINGS.

Urom "Atlas" hi 'The World.

A good example of the feeling in Rus||b, towards England and Germany respectively, and of the attitude of Germany in the war, is afforded by the Moscow Gazette,< rwhich takes rank as the first public—-that is, non-official— paper in Russia. This paper which wrote in the most violenjfc terms against Sir Arnold Kemball, accnsiijg him of assisting the Turkish army in Asia, has no words of praise too strong for the Germany military attache with the army before Plevna, who, according to the Moscow Gazette j led on a Russian column to the attack when its own officii* killed.

Apropos of John Wilson, there is a story of him which ...speaks for itself. While* being 'coached' to sing with Mahnran in Sonnambula, the maestro said to 'him, tMr Wilson, you must throw more passion into your manner. Remember, sir, you are making love to Amitia.' The Scotchman simple answered, 'Man, I'm married !'•'

A nohl c contributi on toward s the relief of the sufferers in the Indian famine may be shortly expected from an .unlooked-for source. A large sum of money, it may lie remembered, was raised in this country during the American Civil War, more than a dozen years ago, to aid the thousands of operatives thrown out of work in the cotton districts of Lancashire. . Notwithstanding that a convalescent hospital at Buxton was built out of the fund remaining after the relief of the famished operatives, and that a further grant of £12,000 for the extension of the hospital has just been ordered by the Charity Commissioners, there will still remain in the hands of the trustees about £140,000. It is proposed, therefore, to devote some £15,000 of this sum as a contribution from Lancashire workpeople to their suffering fellowsubjects in India, and the matter has been referred to Lord Derby for decision.

The Bishop of Hereford was examining a school-class the other day, and amongst other things asked what an average was. Several boys pleaded ignorance, but one at last replied, ' It is what a hen lays on.' This answer puzzled the Bishop not a little; but the boy peristed in it stating that he had read it in his little book of facts. He was then told to bring the little book, and,on doing so, he pointed triumphantly to a paragraph commencing, ' The domestic hen lays on an average fifty eggs each year. " Who will say after this that reading does not make a full man ?