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Globe, Volume III, Issue 219, 20 February 1875, Page 4

“You will be pleased with my daughter as a pupil, I feel sure,” a lady lately re marked to a well-known professor, whose services she had just engaged; “she is excccdinglo clever, and has such a nice heavy tvuch iur sacred music. ”

Mr Thomas Woolner, A R.A., has been elected a Royal Academician, in the room of Mr J. H, Foley, deceased. The Inangahua Herald states that Mr Dobson, the late Provincial Engineer of Nelson, did not resign because of any personal difference with Mr O’Conor, but because he had received a General Government appointment at £7OO a year in Canterbury. A painting by the well-known Dutch artist Bernard Cornelius Koecock, at a recent sale in Paris, fetched the sum of 40,000 fr. In Brussels, a few days afterwards, a very fine landscape by the same artist was sold for little more than the value of the frame. The National Bank of Mitford. Skowhegan, U.&., was robbed on the 19th October, by masked men, of about 140,000d0l in currency and bonds. The robbers previously visited the residence of the cashier, and compelled him to accompany them to the bank and open the safe.

A countryman was strolling along the jetty at Margate when his eye lighted on the name of Psyche on a pleasure boat; after spelling it out slowly, he exclaimed, “Well, if that ain’t the oddest way to spell * fish ’ I ever saw!”

Queen Victoria (says an American paper) is the legal head of the Episcopal Church of England and the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. When she is in England her Presbyterianism is technically called “ dissent.” She has a morbid hatred of ritualism. The Prince of Wales is inclined to ritualistic ceremonies, while his eldest sister, the Princess of Germany, is a Lutheran ; his brother-in-law, Lord Lome, is a Presbyterian ; another brother-in-law, the Prince Imperial of Prussia, is a Protestant-Lutheran; a sister-in-law, the Duchess of Edinburgh, is a Greek Catholic ; her husband is a Low Church Episcopalian; the other brothers and sisters are Episcopalians and Presbyterians by turns, their particular creed depending upon their residence. The Princess of Wales clings to the faith she was taught in Denmark,

“William look up. Tell us, William, who made you. Do you know?” William, who was considered a fool, screwing his face and looking thoughtful and somewhat bewildered, shortly answered. “ Moses, I s’pose.” “ That will do.” Now,” says the barrister, addressing the court, “the witness says he s’poses Moses made him. This certainly is an intelligent answer, more than I thought him capable of giving, for it shows that he has some faint idea of scripture; but I submit that it is not sufficient to satisfy his being sworn as a witness qualified to give testimony.” “My lord,” said William, “ may I ax the lawyer a question?” _ “ Certainly,” says the judge, “ask him any question you please.” “Wal, then, Mr Barrister, who d’you s’pose made you?” The Barrister; “Aaron, I s’pose.” After the mirth had subsided, the witness said, “ Wal, now, we do read in the Good Book that Aaron once made a calf, but who’d ’a’ thouj ht the animal had got in here?”