VARIETIES.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1254, 14 March 1878, Page 3

VARIETIES.

When a girl begins to take an interest in a >muug man’s cravat, it is a sign she does not ove him as a sister

The painful perplexity and indecision of the young lady who has the ankle of a Venus but a foot like au ironing board, as she clutches her dress and steps on a muddy crossing, is the saddest thing we know of. A New Hampshire man (says an exchange) has buried two wives within eight months. Well, if his wives were dead, and he is opposed to cremation, we don’t see what else he could have done with them. He would have been a more fit subject for newspaper comment if he had refused to bury them. When a young pastor, two months in arrears on his board bill, sees his landlady with a vinegar-like expression seattd in the front pew. it can’t be expected that his sermon will possess that eloquence which springs only from a mind unembarrassed by earthlv cares.

A New York lady opened a letter ad. dressed to her husband, the other day, and read, among other soft words, these: — “ Darling John,—Come to me again soon ; I can’t bear to think you are at home with that old rip of a wife of yours.” When John came home that evening, he found a domestic polar wave in his mansion that chilled the very beef-marrow in his hair. M. Maiche in “ Les Mondes” propounds the theory reached after numerous experiments that water is simply hydrogen pi ns electricity, or oxygen minus electricity; or, in other words, that normal electrified hydrogen constitutes water, and that normal diselectrified oxygen produces the same; or that hydrogen, oxygen, and water are precisely the same, differing only in degree of electrification.

Thk Sri. tax’s Day’s Work.— A salary of £•2000 a-day, or £7J0,000 per year of 3(io days, will appear to those who have but few wants a nice competency. That is the daily wage of Abdul Hamid, the present Sultan of Turkey, and no Sovereign alive earns his money harder. Out of that sum he has, moreover, to pay for his own board, lire, and caudles ; his lodgings alone are, free, so that, considering the footing on which his establishment is placed, ho must be a man of order and economy to make both ends meet with so small an income at his command. There is, indeed no more diligent or active man in his empire than the Sultan, and it is literally true of him to say that he eats his bread in the sweat of his brow. He gives personal audience to every one that applies for it, whenever it is possible ; when not, his first adjutant gives audience fo.- him. The six hundred wives of Abdul Asia have vanished, and Abdul Hamid rinds it as much as he can do to meet the milliners* bills of a poor three dozen spouses, Tnis scanty harem leaves h\m 0 good deal more time for devotion apd State business. He leaves his apartment betimes, and bathes the prison of , hia soul in tepid water, after which ho stretches himself full length upon a carpet I and breathes a silent morning prayer. He then drinks a eup of chocolate, and proceeds immediately after to the affairs of the State, Despatches are received and sent, reports examined and approved of, expenses consented to, decorations granted, ministers and ambassadors received, and that goes on for several hours. Towards noon a second carpet ia spread at the feet of the Ruler of the faithful, whereon he prays again, and ; then takes his second breakfast. After that he goes out for a ride or a drive, and when he returns he is at the disposal of his family and the inhabitants of the palace. Ho gives audience to his brothers au.u sister, listens to the report of tfip household officers, confers with the obiei, of the eunuchs on all sorts of delicate, subjects, and gives him Iris orders. The chief of the eunuchs ranks next after tne Grand Vizier, and whenever a despatch containing good news from the seat of war conies in, it is he that is charged to read it to the ladies confided to his care. The Imaum, or chaplain of th,e palace, also comes in the evening, asd the Sultan ]jray& or reads some pfoufl. book with him. Three times fa th.i ftcek the Saltan takes lessons o.n piano, from, French teacher, M. Paul . Dutsap—that is, he listens to his teacher playing a few mofceanx, but never plays a single scale himself. Later in the evening he despatches more State business, and then an hour before midnight, accompanied only by the chief of the eunuchs, he retir. s to the mysterious recesses of the harem, where it is forbidden us to follow him.—“ Manchester Evening News,”

One test of a great mind is its instantaneous availability in an emergency. The boy who can drop a paper bag of eggs on the sidewalk and pass on without changing his gait, interrupting his whistle, or looking at what he has dropped, has a future before him.

It is stated that walking matches have been superseded in the United States by dances against time, and an agile professor New York recently waltzed for seven hours without stopping, exhausting a large number of partners, none of whom were able to keep up longer than forty-five minutes at the time. The dancer took refreshments occasionally, but continued dancing while he drank, and during the first five hours swallowed two glasses of cold tea, two of champagne, and two of lager beer, as well as unlimited ice.