CLIPPINGS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 170, 5 March 1878, Page 3

CLIPPINGS.

From " Atlas " in The World.

By the way, on" of tho quaintest printer's blunders i have ■■■■me acn».--for a long time occurred in th.' Freeman of a recent date. 'The . sentences of a clever an.l. highly complimentary notice of Air Theodorv Martin's third volume of the Life of the Prince Consort were meant to run thus : • The Prince closes his diary for the year with the remark " that the protocal about the Russo-Turkish frontier was signed in Paris ; and thus the Belgrad question solved, thank God." One more volume will close the deeplyinteresting story of the Prince's life.' Sic, I presume, in the ms .; but the compositor, whether inspired by fun or Fenianism I know not, sent the fullstop up two places ; and the consequence was that, nfter recording part of the Prince's remark, the article concluded thus piously,. Thank God one more volume vtill close the story of the Prince's life /' That compositor should drop a line to Onslow-square to comfort Mr Martin.

Bernal Osborne declares it was not he, but Billy Russell, who said to Madame Novikoff, who was dilating on the victories on the Lorn, ' Lorn propose, mais Dieu dispose.' But then all these Irishmen are ' such dogs !'

During the late crisis at Paiis the following enigma was current: ' What is the height of patience ?' Answer : ' To explain something to the Marshal, and then wait till he has understood it.' Another mot was : 'He is George 111. without the lucid intervals.'

Among things not generally known is the expected accouchment of the fair Chinese Ambassadress, the 'Tottering Lily.' Her Excellency's household are just now busily engaged in providing garments for the little stranger, who, it is confidently believed, will be of the sterner sex. At all events the ' linen' consists of (it is a fact, O mothers of England!) coats, trousers, and caps. Coats and trousers for a baby ! Think of this, Messrs. Capper & Moon, and weep at the barbarian customs of the heathen Chinee.

The article on ' doing the Doctors,' recently published in the World, has brought me a shoal of correspondence Confirmatory of its statements, and a host of illustrative instances and anecdotes more or less relevant from a variety of medicos. Here is one : Not long ago an elderly lady, conspicuous by an affected aqualor of costume and generally bearing signs of simulated proverty in her person, called upon a well-known physician, and consulted him on the subject of the chronic dyspepsia to which she was a victim. The doctor suggested various remedies, all of which the patient declared were of no avail. At last she accepted, after a prolonged conversation, a prescription, and was about to take her leave, when the physician suggested she had forgotten the fee. ' Fee !' she rejoined • ' why should I give you a fee ? Don't I know that your prescription will do me no good ?'