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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1620, 16 October 1874, Page 395

Scotch Papers are warning their readers that the waste of coal is fuelish extravagance. Sagaoity.—A correspondent writes to an English paper :—" One of the funniest things a dog ever did happened the other day. A friend owns a splendid Newfoundland that has been taught to bring his wire muzzle to his master every time he is going out. Coming to my house on a visit, his muzzle was left behind. As his owner was going out after breakfast he said, ' You can't go, Lion ; you didn't bring your muzzle.' Quick as a flash the dog bounded into the kitchen, returning in au instant with a wire basket salad strainer, which, hanging on the dresser, had attracted Lion's attention, and seemed to him to be a new kind of muzzle." Whether the noble Lion evinced in this case "reason" or "instinct," we leave the Hon. Grantley Berkeley to decide. Origin of Gipsies.—Charles Leland, in his work on English gipsies, speaks of the race of whjeh. they are a part as " the descendants of a vast number of Hindoos, of the primitive tribes of Hindostan, who were expelled or migrated from that country early, in the fourteenth century." The migrations probably began earlier, for their are intimations of them as far west as Germany in 1416, and in 1427 a troop of them, numbering a hundred, appeared in Paris, where they gave themselves out as Christian gipsies expelled from Egypt by tho Mohammedans. Nq settled account of their origin is given by the gipsies of any two lands in the Old World, but their tradition extends, on the whole, towards the Egyptian origin which the popular notions of European nations had in general till of late assigned to them. Yet that the Rom or Komni are to be identifie d with the Dom or Domni caste of Hindoo s allied to the Nats, the real gipsies of India at the present day—the letters D and R being hardly distinguishable in gipsy mouths—is not only attested by the name they give themselves, but borne out by proofs without limit from the study of their speech and of their characteristic customs or habits. A Queen's Mysterious Donor.—Although the king was averse t« unnecessary expenditure, yet he thought little of money where charity was concerned. He gave liberally, and made the queen an ample allowance that she might do the same. Her warm heart, in its anxiety to lighten the troubles of the needy, sometimes prompted her to overdraw. The treasurer thought it his duty to tell her that she gave too much. The queen gently aaswered, "My good Wolker, it is my happiness to be the wife of the father of the land, and I am the mother of the land. That name sounds sweetly to me; and I love all my children." " Well, said Wolker, "I must mention this to his majesty." Do so," replied the queen, "he will not be angry," The next time she opened the drawer of her writing case, in which she kept her pocket-money, she found it had been refilled. "Ah," said she to the king, " what invisible being has filled that drawer again?" Her husband gave an affectionate reply, and before they dropped this pleasant conversation, he quoted and connected two of his favorite texts of Holy Scripture, according to Luther's translation. " The blessing of God maketh rich without trouble," and "The Lord gives to His own in sleep," or while they sleep.— Louisa, Queen of Prussia, by Elizabeth H. Hudson. A Famous Love Adventure.—One writer has related a curious legend of Eginhard, the secretary of Charlemagne, anent the subject of marriage, in which a daughter of the emperor himself played a most conspicuous part. The secretary fell desperately in love with the princess, who at length allowed his advances. One winter's night his visit was prolonged to a late hour, and in the meantime a deep fall of snow had fallen. If he left his footmarks would betray him, and yet to remain longer would expose Jum no Jess to danger. At length the Princess resolved to carry him on her back to a neighboring house, which she did. It happened, however, that from the chamber of his window the emperor witnessed this novel proceeding; and in the assembly of the lords on the following day, when Eginhard and his daughter were present, he asked what ought to be done to a man who should compel a king's daughter to carry him bni her shoulders through frost and snow on a winter's night 1 They answered that he was worthy of death. The lo vers became alarmed, but the emperor, addressing Eginhard, said —"Hadst thou Joyed, my 'daughter, then JK»^ e come l 0 me> Thou art worthy of death ; but I give thee two lives ; take thy fair porter in marriage, foar God, aud love one another." This was worthy of oiie of the greatest of princes, and also worthy the imitation of many a purse-proud aristocrat of later times.— Woman, by Henry Smith,-M.D.