MISCELLANEOUS.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume V, Issue 241, 26 September 1885, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Lord Mayor of London has set a 5oo«1 example in entertaining? ata banquet '250 London editors, ft is the fi"st oeens:on of the guides of the people and watchdogs of civilisation having been so brought together. Madanii- Sarah Bernhardt, h-iq l»een forbidden by the German Government l o net in any part of Alsace-Lorraine. The official prohibition states that tlie actress herself closed the doors of ail German theatres by her open hostility towards the Empire, and her want ol Uci.

Lord Randolph Churehill, if report! speaks truly, had an amusing ■at St. Pan eras Station. Having arrived I there by train, he betook himself to the | van to look after his portmanteau. The ; guard, who, with a singular want of j discernment, supposed him to bo a commercial traveller, jocularly remarked : " What do you think ? we've got Lord Randolph Churchill in the train, I'm I told. I hope I shall he able to see the cocky little swine." "Well," returned he •' that's my portmanteau with E.G. on it: bring it along to a cab, and you can look at me as long as you like, for I'm the cocky little swine." One hot summer's day in the (says " jEgles " in the Australasian) young Harem Scarem was t.-ik'ng a couple of stud rams up to his father's station. The road was long and dusty, and the whisky i he had with him was so good that hej punished it severely. At length the tk enemy he put into his mouth took away his brains," and he determined to have a lark. Taking the rams out of the buggy he placed them in sight of each other, and took his position on a log to watch die contest. At it they went, hammer and tongs, and each time they drew back for a fresh charge young Harem cheered them on. "Go it one hundred and seventy guineas ! Go it two hundred and fifty I" yelled the youth. Presently "a hundred and seventy " dropped " two hundred and fifty" as dead as a door nail. The explanations young Harem made to his father are not on record.

The following is a statement of the ftges of members of the new Cabinet, six-1 teen in number, in order ef seniority, viz:—Viscount Cranbrook, 71; Duke of Richmond and Gordon, 07; Earl of Iddesleigh (Sir Stafford Northcote), 66; due Right Hon, Lord John Manners, 66; air Richard Cross, 62; Lord Halsbury (the Lord Chancellor), 62; the Right Hon. W. H. Smith, 60; the Marquis°of Salisbury (Premier), 55; the Karl of Harrowby, 54; the Earl of Carnarvon, -54; the Ri<>ht Hon. Edward Gibson, 47 ; Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, 47; the Right Hon. Edward Stanhope, 44; Colonel the Right Hon. F. A. Stanley, 44 ; the Right Hon. Lord George Hamilton, &9; and the Right Hon. Lord Randolph Churchill, Hged 36. It will thus be seen that Vis'count Cranbrook is the oldest member of the Cabinet, and Lord Randolph Churchill the youngest.