CLIPPINGS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 146, 11 December 1877, Page 3

CLIPPINGS.

From " Atlas" in The World. Now what do you think of a man who, in: the advertisement of his marriage, describes himself as ' direct descendant from ,(jg?offrey Plantagenet, Earl of Matilda, only daughter of King Henry I.' ? An advertisement in these terms appeared fn the Times last week. «*- M. Jules Prevel,.in the Figaro, tells two characteristic stories of Rachel. It s well known that a singularly strong iffectionbound- together the members of lie family ; but the instincts .of the

' Hebrew Jew' were always superior to more tender interests. When she was on the point, of starting for her American tour, she said to her brother Raphael Felix, ' lint-suppose I was to meet with an accident; everything depends upon me :, and if I was to die, what would become of you, poor, dear creatures?' They all declined to entertain the idea of so inauspicious an ending to a triumphal entry. ' However, never mind if" I do,' she said to her brother ; ' all you have to do is to embalm me, and exhibit me at so much per head.'

When her sister Rebecca, aged twentyseven, was dying of consumption in Paris Rachel went to nurse her. One day the poor invalid had to take a nauseous draught which nothing could persuade her to do. ' If you will,' replied Rachel, ' I will give you that big necklace you admire so.' ' Not you,' said the moribund. 'Moreover, I will add these bracelets which you appear to fancy.' 'O, that lam sure you will not!' ' I vow I will, said the generous tragedienne. ' Very good then, dear Rachel, I believe you ; but you must give me a bill for them at a short date !'

A lady in general conversation the other day, by ingeniously cooking her dates, was reducing her age to an astonishing limit. Her daughter, whose partly French blood has brought her a keen wit, interposed with the remonstrance, ' At least leave nine months between our ages, mamma 1'