Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 21 January 1892, Page 2

Notes and Events.

» — When the new Lord Mayor of London was elected an alderman, his grandfather, in view of his grandson one day occupying the civil chair put aside £10,000 in order that the office might be filled with honor to the family name. This sum, with the subsequent accumulations and the £10,000 voted by the corporation, to say nothing of the resources of a large private fortune, ought to make the civic year memor« able. An exchange says:— Bret Harte is always hard up, though he gets something out of American publishers and received from English publishers £8,000 last year. He is an improvident child of genius. A young Parisian lady, Mdlle. Leclerc, has just passed the examination for the diploma of pharmaceutical chemist. There are several lady doctors practising in Paris, and even a lady barrister ; but Mdlle. Leclerc will be the first lady to open a chemist's shop. What a spree he must have had I Among the Sloane manuscripts in the British Museum has been found a diary written in Spanish by one Richard Bere, a dissolute roysterer, who lived at the end of the eighteenth century. This diary - consisting of little more than, the names of the places where he got drunk, and the record of his visits to various friends and various gaols -covers eleven years, from 1692 to 1704, and affords a curious side-glimpse into London lite of the lower kind two centurfes A ago. The entry on June 15th 6nV™ year is, " Seven men hanged to-day ; fine and warm. Dinking at Phillipston an night. Westmaoott their again." The second son of Dickens was Francis Geoffry Dickens. In his . note-book the novelist wrote : A " plump and merry little chap, that second son of mine " Poor little chap 1 He caught the Fleet-street fever and went ink mad ; he caught

the Dahoolcy fever and flashed and fleshed and blooded his sword in India : he fought Louis Riel in Canada • aye, and captured Big Bear; he came to Chicago and gambled away his money in a Clarkateeet gambling house ; he died one windy, sleety night in a grim little Illinois town Mo ine. I here he is buried But his brother, Henry did well ; won the second scholarship at Trinity Hall , at the age of twenty and was twenty ni.ith wrangler in a a fair year, when the wranglers were over forty. He is now a successful Joarrißter, , with a wife and five children. And the daughters of Dicken's ? The oldest is unmarried ; the other is Mrs " Kittie " Perugini, a deservedly well known portrait painter. Mrs "Kittie's" fame— if one must be fairly accurate — is a wee, small affair, but then she has done something; she has painted the portrait of that baronet of baccarat, Sir William Gordon Cumming. Junior Charles Dickens has three daughters. Two of them run a type-writing. "establishment off Covent Garden; the third, Mary, is playing* email parts in a stock company touring the province. No— genius is not hereditary. A writer in the Quarterly Review •calculates that a gang of twelve men in good quarters may make on an average, from September Ist to February Ist, about £80 a week, or £3 each for for five months in the year. One way of poaching is by fitting a game cock with artificial spurs, when he is carried to the preserves. When the game cock crows one or two of the cock pheasants immediately respond and advance to fight. In this way sometimes five or six pheasants are taken, while the game cock remains unhurt. Mr Tnderwick, in the Welsh Review, declare that the married womans is the spirited child of British legislation, because her power to tie up money for her separate use, without power of anticipation, enables her to defraud honest creditors, and to laugh at orders of the Queen's judges, and hinder the administration of impatient justioe.