SATURDAY NIGHT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 114, 21 April 1883, Page 3

SATURDAY NIGHT.

The late John Brown, confidential attendant. Upon the Her Majesty the Queen, was. remarkable for his blunt and plain matter of fact speech, a common enough attribute of the High™ lander. It is recorded how on his first appearance at a■ . Court reception, the officer m waiting remonstrated wish him upon his drees, or rather undress, Brown; being 1 attired m the orthodox Highland costume. The imperturbable Scot, however, replied that n^r Majesty 11 liked him/best without his ■ breeches." On another occasion, the faithful attendant was .reported: to the Queen for speaking of some very noble ladies as « w,Qmen;« $ What," said Her MEJesty, <{ did he call them women ? And what m the -world else are they ?'- A mis- spelled word may lead a whole generation off the right track. " Nine tailors make a man " is an old sayiDg, and a good illustration ot our statement. To look down on the worthy profession of the cloth- cutter because of such a proverbshows' a want of proper instruction. In the olßen time, when a person died, the church bell tolled onca for every year the departed had lived. But. from the tolling of the bell no .one could tell whether the deceased' was' a man or woman. To satisfy public curiosity, jiiirtiaps, on that subject, the sexton, 1 after tolling the age, gave eight quick strokes of the bell if the deceased was a Woman, and nine if it was a man, and ; these .quick strokes at the "end' of the ; tolling werefc called i'tailers," because: they were at, thp tail end of the whole business. '"Hence tie proverb, " Nine tailors makjs a man." .<-. j A girl "in J Uew Mexico had ' four different, suitors. One day she killed a pantheifin a fair fight, and the next thing she knew, she . was beauless. No man wanted 1 a 1 wife^with as much grit as that. At a recent prize- fight it was put to the vote whether the battle should proceed' or be deferred one week. The ayeshad it, and m about fifteen minutes the ayes and nose had it, and had it pretqr badly too. ;■ Bridegroom ? S-Motto (very free translation) : Veni, vidi, viei — I've been, and sgone, and- done it. •...■■« - ■ i* He was the most perfect gentleman I Wer saw/ said a Kentuckian . " When r *kpVi went. to. see him he handed you the wSiskey bottle and then turned his back.'i