CLIPPINGS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3658, 5 April 1883, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

Mr Devre, of Ottawa, has invented what lie calls a chromoscope, and which will give to photographs all the tints and sky oolourin fr as depicted l>y nature at the time of taking a picture. Says the Adelaide L.\ . Gazette :—lhe essence of snobbery i.s to lie met with in South Australia. It is a laudable ambition amongst the humble Irish to bring up one of thelainil v to be a '' gentleman. The idea perhaps is that he may help the rest up t he ladder of life. To forward this Joseph the rest of the family are pinched in education —sometimes in' food. The Mactiamaras thus pushed their eldest son. Ho was shrewd—obtained a bank appointment, and in a few years became a manager. He never remembered (lie old folks who had wellnigh starved themselves for his sake. A townsman, entering his bank, looked earnestly at him and said, " Is your name Maeiiainara:-' , "it is," was the reply, "why do you ask?" "Arc you then a son of old Pat Macnamarar" "Well," wiid the manager with obvious reluctance, .< I j im —to a eertiiin extent." When Mrs Langtry first appeared as E.j'-u'iud vi London, there was a trwnttidyua

crush of the fast young bloods, from the Prince of Wales down to that moral youngman, the Marquis of Huntloy; for thej' all expected to see the Lily in tights. Not the slightest attention was given to the play till the cue for her entry was heard, and then a sigh—almost a heart-groan of disappointment—went through the house from pit to ceiling. She wore a tunic from neck to ankle! The fact is, the public don't understand how determined Mrs Langtry is to remain a lady, though she is an actress. A funny incident occurred, though, which made the people laugh, glum as they were. In the sentence, " Were I a woman," the beauty had only got as far as "I would kiss as many of you ," when a stcntor's voice came from the back of the pit, "Oh, take us all in !" Is any millionaire in want of a steam yachl 'i If so, that whitest of white elephants, the Great Eastern—the despair of its owners, though monarch of the seas—is available for a bagatelle of £.5000 per annum. Since it was long ago unavailiugly offered by auction in the City, the gigantic vessel, once described as the chief triumph of Mr Scott Russell's genius, has been icily lying at Milford Haven, not only eating its head off, but—as the shareholders could testify—other portions of its stupendous frame. What to do with this 25,000 tons burthen thus wasting their sweetness on the ocean air the Great Eastern Steamship Company know not; so once again they appeal for some offer, that the nautical masterpiece may not gradually perish of senile decay unutilised. Is any seaport in want of a breakwater, or any Barniim desirous of o]iening a penny peepshow on the Thames ? Now is the time to strike a bargain. I am sorry to learn (says " Endymion " in the Queeiislander) that there is a split in the ranks of the Salvation Army. It appears, according to Captain Cairns, that the concertina, two men, two women, and a girl, who nave been doing battle as disciples of General Booth for a long time past in Brisbane, are not " duly qualified" to fight under that great man's banner, so that the gallant captain has started an opposition arm}- consisting of a fiddle, a couple of men, and a lot of small boys. On the other hand the concertina division say that Captain Cairns does not bring with him proper credentials, and see no reason why tliey should knuckle down to him. Now, this rather mixes things. In the first place, how are those who have joined the concertina band to know whether they really belong to the Salvation Army or not, or whether they are merely outsider'; with no authority to fight at ail ': Then, again, what may be the awful result if the concertina and fiddle continents come into collision on the bridge some night. The Earl of Stamford and Warrington, just dead, was no ordinary character. He combined a jiassiona.te love for sport with fine business qualities, and though often obliged to borrow never allowed his estates to suffer. The World says of him: — "It was no secret with Lord Stamford that lie spent over half n Million of money on the turf! The princely style in which he hunted the Qiiorn for seven years, coupled with his unbounded hospitality at all seasons of the year, the enormous sums he spent over cricket at one time, and the cost of keeping up his extensive deer forests and grouse moors in Scotland, as well as the preservation of pheasants and partridges at Enville, Bradgate, and Dunham Masscy for his world-famed /milurn, made a still further drain upon his great wealth and resources. He never applied to the Jews for advance even after a ' bad week' at racing, but obtained all the money he required from Mr Ounlift'o Brooks, who is reported to have lent him at various periods no less a sum than £!).')(),000, at four per cent., on the Dunham Massey and Ashton-undcr-Lyne properties, which, intrahile diclu, kept on improving the more his lordship borrowed upon them !" The earldom of Warring-ton, becomes extinct, but that of Stamford goes to a. Cape schoolmaster, 73 years old, who is childless. It is said that Lord Stamford did not know who his heir really was, so scattered are the i'amilv.