SCISSORS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4192, 30 December 1884, Page 4

SCISSORS.

A Kansas man has patented an arrangement to put upon locomotives for squirting hot -water for driving cattle off the track. Verdi, the famous composer, is now 73 years of age, a fine-looking remnant of humanity, with snow-white hair and moustache. His public operas number 125. The memoirs of Lord Malmsbury, lately published, are creating quito a sensation in London because of the glimpses given into the private life of the great English leaders. Mr Joshua Montefiore, a brother of Sir Moses, crowned an extraordinary career by marrying a strand wife when, he was seventy-three years of nge. Eight years later he died, leaving a young -widow and six children, the youngest of whom was only six -weeks old. So enthusiastic were the people in their reception of Mr Gladstone, during his recent visit to Scotland, that the -windows of his saloon railway carriage were broken. The English Premier started for Edinburgh, but saw°Glassgow first. Antoineßuhinstein, tho celebrated pianist, •was lately at Marionbad. Having promised to give his services at a charity concert to beheld that night, ho was in his room choosing what piece ho would perform. As

ho was ruling hi* fingers ov.r tho Icevbon _;., the door suddenly op-icd, and the rtlaid of a lady occupying the next rooms entered, and handed the artist the folio win g note: —"Please to stop your strumming, which shocks my nerves. P.S.—lf you only did not play flat, I might bear it." The great pianist took out one of his cards and wrote on tho back of it: — " Excuse me, I fair lady; I will henceforth try to avoid flat notes. —Antoine R.mnstein." A woman is far more sensitive than a man. She has finer feelings and a more delicate mind. There are 'i. very few men avlio realise this, and in consequence woman is made to endure much unnecessary suffering. One of our merchants Avas going to church with his wife on Sunday morning, when she stopped and put her hand to her head. "AVliat'i the matter':" he said, startled by the look on her face. "Oh! I have got on my brown hat." "Eh?" ejaculated the astom-hc-d man.. She burst into tears. ''What, Martha, what is the matter -with you ?'' he demanded. "Don't you see what is the matter?"' she returned in a sobbing voice. " Eve got on my brown hat with my striped silk. Oh, what Avill people say ?" Tho supplying of chi! .ren to the stage has become a regularbu .ncs . A Airs Fernandez, in New York*, lr:s aline, t the moiioply of it. AVhoMCver a child or a number of children are wanted for a production of a new piny the manager almost invariably goes to Mrs. "l'Vrna:id---/. .ho can supply Hie required arti.h.-, male oi- iVinalo, at short notice. If a mother in 'nou'y circum.-. Hnces iias a child which displays any scintilla of dramatic talent she takes the" little one to Mrs. Fernandez. The lady makes the child recite for her, and if she considers it. shows any talent, down goes its name on a long list Avith a number of others, and when its turn comes, or a child possessing its peculiar qualities is wanted for some new production, it is sent for and an engagement made with the management. For this a__ moderate - commission is charged. Mrs Fernando/, indeed, runs what may be called a " Baby's Dramatic Agency."