M. A. P.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2080, 4 January 1908, Page 4 (Supplement)

M. A. P.

(Mostly About People,)

A Cleveland, Ohio, man named Edward L. Scott, is petitioning for a divorce from his wife because she uses -slang.

James .Mason, a famous humor and trapper, has been commissioned by till' Do wager-Em press of China to procure i pair of live grizzlies, also lour live wild cats, for her museum anil zoo of fast disappearing animals.

Mark Twain gives an "cco'inl of the Oxford nugoanf and of ‘ne ancient people lie met in the st tversdiiring the week, from Harold M icefoot and Fair Rosamund to Charles 1. Me concludes: "Harefoot, near MOD .'.ears ago, came living up on i oiey.'ie aid smoking a pipe, hut at once elicotu'd up and got off to shake with me.”

John Pound, an inutile <T ihe Wandsworth Workhouse, has come into a fortune of £6OOO. The Wandsworth Guardians havo presented John with a little hill amounting to £ol Os (id for unpaid hoard anil lodgings. In this ease the losing of a Pound lias heoeii a profitable business for all concerned.

Like other orators of rank, the British Premier, Sir Henry CampbellBannerman, is usually apmo idled at political meetings on helialf of the press as to the length of time lie is going to speak. “How long do you expect to .speak?" a journalist r.s-i-ed him one night. “Expect is ha ally the word,” replied Sir Henry; "but I fear about an hour.”

A story is told of the lnteP.’OlcS'or .Mason when editor of ‘‘.\l icmdian s .Magazine.” It refers to the days when Kingsley anil Newman v ere engaged in their famous pamphlet uvr. Conscious of the exeelleneo ol an ,"i !'- elo oil the subject of the controversy which he bail written in the “Magazine,” Ala,son ventured to bring itn nder the notice of Newui’in ; hut lie was not prepared for the ireply lie received, although lie afterwards spoke of it with philosop.iio humor. Newman’s laconic mess.• .(.> wis in words such as these: “I have not hoard of your ‘Alagazine,’ and vour name conveys no impression to .nv mind.”