ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 384, 26 March 1880, Page 3

ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

j (Collated from our Exchanges.) i The following instances of the sagacity of & pointer which occurred in this neighbourhood, may prove interesting to your readers. A friend of mine while - out shooting was surprised on seeing his dog, which had been beating some distance ahead, come hack to him and try to attract his attention by running away a few yards in a certain direction, , and returning again. This he did several times, but no apparent notice being taken of him. he caught my friend by the ]cg t and began to pull him in the same direction. Thinking that " something was iv the wind," he followed, and on getting to a ditch, he espied a wood-pigeon close under the other side, which was immediately added to the hag, The dog evidently thought it would be an acceptable addition to a rather empty bag, but at the same time knew he should not set it, and so . acted in the above curious manner. . Hard on the old man.—Swell Son : "No, don't like her at all—horribly vulgar women—calls her husband 'Enery!" " Self made" Father (vaguely): "Ah' , [pause] well, but ain't 'is name ;■ 'Enery ?". / . ■ .. , Very remarkable changes have taken "place during' the forty-two* yean/ reign ! of Queen Victoria. She has outlived by several years every Bishop and judge whom she found seated on those benches in England, Scotland, and Ireland. She has witnessed the funeral of every i Premier under her, except Lord Beacons- , field and Mr Gladstone. Not a single \ Cabinet of her uncle and predecessor's day now survives. Of the members of the Privy Council who sat in June, 1837, to administer to her the oath, only four survive. She has received the homage of four Archbishops of Canterbury, four Archbishops of York, and of five Bishops of Chicbester, Lichfield, and Durham ' successively. She has filled each of the Chief Justiceships twice at least ; she has received the addresses of four speakers of the House of Commons. She has entrusted the Great Seal of the Kingdom to no less than nine Lord Chancellors. The Mormon agitation in Auckland seems to have given discontented wives an idea of escaping from their unhappy • existence, and applications to Court ior ; separation orders are on the increase. Probably the result will be an exodus of married women from Auckland for Utah, where the lovely and fairy-like creatures will discover that they have jumped from the frying-paii into the fire. — Guardian.

j The eel will, of its own accord, leave a pond or stream and wander overland to another locality. This occurs, it is, stated, usually when the hot summer snn has evaporated the v/nter of the pond in J which the fish hapj em to bo, or so lessened its bulk that the eel finds the locality no longer suited to its wants. In such a case the animals lonve the stagnating waters of a land-locked pond, and, with a serpent-like motion, pass through grass well wetted with tlews or sliowi rs. They seem to exhibit a sense of direction in their movements, and always head for the nearest stream. These land migrations are more frequent during evenings, when a heavy dew is deposited,- than at •other times. Montagu Mosley the scai ifier of Pastor Chiniquy, was remanded from Timaru to Christchurch on a charge of obtaining the enormous sum of 3s under false pretences-from a snip (tailor) ■.'.• The Bey. Daniel S. Helter, Baptist, preacher'of Rbaiie County, Tennessee, is 88 years old, and is as active as .most men\at.so:- : He recently walked threw miles to" ".-give testimony at the county seat, and , returned in the same day. He says I can sight a rifle gun as well as I could 60 years ago, and can bring a squirrel nearly every time, and only for a slight tremble of the hand would not miss one shot in a hundred." In reply to the question, "On which side were your sympathies during the late war ?" he rcpled : "I was always a Union man. I had 16 sons in the Union Army and two in the rebel army, and my sympathies were with the Union army by 14 majority. When asked if lie knew which of the boys were right, he said, "I know which I think were right, Cap'n. There war 16 majority in that 'ar family including me. I helped the boys on the Union side." He has been twice married, and is the father of 24 children. He served in the war of 181.2, but draws no pension. It is said by the ex-soldiers that he did good service during the war by aiding Union soldiers to communicate with their families when they were in the rebel lines, and in many other ways. If he can get a pension for service in either the war of 1812 or that of the rebellion, he certainly ought to get a liberal one for his services between the two. The man is in indigent circumstances. — Springfield Republican.