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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1250, 16 February 1872, Page 2

" Padded insteps " are announced as fashionable in Boston. A musical whisky bottle has been invented in Georgia. The New York Tribune mentions, that "a curious memorial of the great five has been brought from Chicago. Among the ruins of the Western News Company's establishment, where an immense stock of peiiodicals and books was reduced to ashes, there was found a single leaf of a quarto Bible charred around the edges. It contained the first chapter of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, which open* with the following words:—'flow doth the city sit solitary that was full of people? ho*v issue beoome as a widow? she that was great among the nations and and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary ? She weepeth sore in the night, and her teats are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she hath, none to comfort her.' And that was the only fragment of literature saved from (he News Company's great depot," Can girls stand a college course of study ? Mrs Stanton thinks they can, and says :—" T would like you to take 1,300 "young men aml lace tnem n P> and hang ten to iwenty pounds weight of clothes on their waists, perch them rip on three-inch heels, cover their heads with ripples, chignons, ra's and mice* and stick ten thousand hair pins into their scalps. If they can stand all this thev will stand a little Latin and Greek." "