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Auckland Star, Issue 536, 28 September 1871, Page 2

The Queen's Hint to Pkeachebs.—The Queen —people will say—has como to the rescue of her subjects Buffering under the " long-windedness" of preachers, and in the most delicate manner has allowed it to be understood that in her opinoin no sermon ought to exceed twenty minutes in delivery. la sanctioning the restoration of the pulpit sand-glass in the Royal Chapel of the Savoy, Her Majesty has directed, or permitted, that the glass shall be metered for twenty mmuieJ only, instead of an hour, as the old one wm. Those who suff:r from the labours of a wearisome and tedious preacher will be gratified to find that in this, as in so many instances, Her Majesty is of one'mind with so many of her people j and inasmuch as a reformation is seldom lasting unless it come from within, they will rejoice to see the head of the State Church come forward to reform the Church in the point;in which, in their opinion, it stands so much in need of reformation.— Echo. Nothing Like Leather.—A savant has discovered with the microscope that when we pour milk into a cup of tea, the albumen of the milk and the tannen of the tea instantly unite and form leather, or minute flakes of the very same compound which is produced in the texture of harmed hides, and which makes it leather as distinguished from the original skin. He consequently estimates that in the course of a year a tea-drinker of average capacity imbibes enough leather to make a pair of shoes. The father of Mrs. Siddons had always for« bidden her to marry nn aotor, and of course she chose a member of the old gentleman's company, whom she secretly wedded. When Roger Kemble heard of it he was furious. " Have I not," he exclaimed' " forbade you to marry a player ?" The lady replied, with downcast eyes, that she had not disobeyed. " What, madam ! have you not allowed yourself to marry about the worst performer in my company ?" " Exactly so," murmured the timid bride,, "nobody can call him an actor." A few days since, at au examination of the master's class at one of our public schools, the lads had been asked several questions regarding bank discounts, interest and notes, which they had promptly answered correctly. A member of the school committee then said: " You seem to understand all about bank discounts, interests, notes, <&c. j now I waiit to ask you the meaning of a bauk term whioh may not be down in your text books. What is meant by the term which wo read of so often, called " bank irregularities ?' " To this question one of the boys immediately replied: " If a man wrongfully takes a small amount of anything it is called stealing, Bsi he » punished ; if a bank officer steals a i^'^'S 0 amount of money it is culled an ivr&ofytitf' and he is not punished." Was uotssg\s°T right in his answer ? • w^?' The Indianopolis Sentinel says :—" AMarmer was decapitated by a mowing machine with whioh he was at work on his premises, near Southport, last Tuesday afternoon. it ("'? time of the accident the fanner was examining some portion of the machine which had got out of geur, when the horses attached suddenly started, ciiusing the bliides to revolve, one of ihein striking the man in the baok of the neck, severing the head from the body as though guillotined. A youthful sou of the deceased witnessed the terrible aocident, and, dumb with horror, grasped the head by the hair, and iv" witli it into his mother's presence." . ,i Notice is given that the fish-stalls on the wliarf will be let by public auction on Thursday, the 3rd of October, at noon. The trustees in the estuto of the lato D»" ol Lookwood request that all olaitna that have accrued since October of lust year will be , forwarded for settlement without delay.