Miscellaneous

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 99, 26 February 1887, Page 5 (Supplement)

Miscellaneous

James Brown, a retired produce dealer Nevr York, had hi* sou, Milton, 16 years old, arrested for stopping away from home erer night. The lad was arraiyned in the Harlem Court. A rosy little «iri. 15 years old, watched him through tear* ful ey«s from the spectators' seat 9. Justice Power asked the lad what he stayed away from home for. 'Your father says you are an in« corrigible boy,' he said, severely. • I am not a boy, sir, was the respectful response, 'but a lawfully married man, and I believe it is my duty to live with my wife. That is why [ stayed away from home.' ' Your wife,' exclaimed the judge in astonishment. ' You don't mean to tell me that you are married ?' 'Yes, Judge,' replied" the lad. 'I was married on Monday night, and there is my wife,' pointing to a girl in the spec* lators' seats, who blushed and smiled through her tears. The paternal Brown was equally astonished. He said that he had no idea his son was married. • However," he «aid, " let him go home w ith his wife if he wants to." The little girl bounded from her seat, kissed the i (iveniie husbind heart 1 . . =md the couple marched proudly out of Court. Uniil lust Saturday the salary of the youger Vl r Brown was four dollar* a week. He is " looking for a job" n^w. The Wellington Post -ays: --The following is a copy, verbatim et literatim, oF an agreement which was produced in »'\'idence at the Magistrate's G'ourt this morning :—" Wellington June 21,1886. .\'.Z. This agreement Being drouu By tlie under Sinds and to the Sadisfachon of Both Parties and in ihe Presents of one Witness is naind We the undur Sinds, William Albert nad Eliza Bird, Hear By Gh'e up all Common" quachen With Each other for the rest of Hour lives, B'»ih Bein^ responuekel fur there Hone Cont rackets this agreement Being Sind By the three parties is new ligel to all transhaci shorn*, i William taking two B >ys, and i Elzie tiikin^ one girl." The signatures are hi-n* ap* pended, written across six twopenny stamps. Pettengell met the champion amateur boxer of Australia in n glove encounter in Sydney, on the evening of the 2nd, al. Foley's Hall which wa« packed from floor to ceiling. The amateur had tin; Js'ew Zealander done in the fifth round, and though the referee requested the hitter to give the contest up. he struggled into the seventh round, when he was finished off hand in a minute and a quarter. The Wakatipu Mail say.s : — As a proof that editors of some Queensland newspapers pride themselves on their knowledge of Biblical lore, it may be ; mentioned that a Bannnuhmd paper, m its Christmas leader, spoke of Christmas Day as the anniversary of the crucifixion ••f the Saviour ; and the Fignro hastened to correct this by pointing out that Easter was thp anniversary of that event. These papers are evidently not. run by parsons. Our contemporary of tho Mail is reticent as to the extent of his knowledge on the point. The drinking of ice«water is one of the " Americanisms" which are yearly becoming more prevalent in Europe . In America ice-water is the first thing n waiter places before you at breakfast, lunch, nnd dinner ; and thousands use ii as the first course, as if there stomachs were intended as refrigerators for the food following. This absurd habit nuns the digestion and constitutions of thou« sands, and probably does more harm than all the alcholic liquor condemned by the tempennce fanatics. If American women would drink a pint of harmless light claret in place of ice- water, there would be less anaemia and invalidism among them, and fewer pale faces and fragile forms. In Dublin, Miss Margaret O'Connor, daughter of a revenue police pensioner living in Donegal, recovered £300 damn* ges for breach of promise from a younj; farmer named Doherty, of the samr neighbourhood. The defendant did not deny the promise, but pleaded that the engagement had been broken off by th> plaintiff ; and it was alleged, moreover, on his behalf that on the day he mnrl« the promise he visited the pliintiffV house drunk, and was there " put to bed. and sustained with beef tea and othei things, which enabled him to say some* thing about matrimony.'*