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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1500, 6 November 1885, Page 4

This i was General Grant's last message ' 'to hiswife:^-" Look after ' ! 6ur' • dear ..-. Pfeildren, and direct them m the paths of rectitude. It would distress me far more to think that one of them could depart from an honorable,' upright, acid virtuous .life than it would to know that they- Were prostrate on a bed of sickness from which they were ney,er to. rise alive\ They have never given us atfy cause for alarm on their account, and 'l earnestly "pray- that... they never wr)l. ,-With; these. ,few jnjunctjons, and., the t^kbowledge j^feave of , your love |afid * affection,''! bid ybu"a final'rareweir ujitill we meet ra and, J trusty a better world. v | • '• Th"c 'Wangariui Hsrald hears that the late Mr EJ H. Wright, attended a funeral '■ < on Sunday, and was then' ihi : his ÜBual . . , ; health. On Mbn d ay/; mprniqg he was _ : . :( .working at some plans, when he sudde'n,,W became paralysed and fell to thefloprj ,' v! Xn, the, interval between'; the attack and " liis iifeath he had not spoken. , j - , / Nothing .succeeds like success, as poor Hanlan, the Canadian oarsman kuows to his cost. . The Guelph M6rcfiry\ pub- '''' -lished near Toroiitoj' says :-*Hanlan 1 ' arrived at Toronto on . Thursday ' mbrn : mm j'ng after his long 'absence, and Iwas !■■■' greeted at the station jwhen, he> aliglitJ;/ , ed by one man, ,and : that a .Had he retained the' ,cham- ■ ' piocshij), 10,000 citizens, with bands |of " " hiUßic, w ( ould have ' been ipri " ' hand Ito ' ' welcdme the Ijoy m blue. ' Sic' ■transit, etc. Hanlan looks remarkably Well and ■ i -iis? inF> ga*y spirits. : Notwithstofading his ■ . dsfeat,fhe. made a little ifortuue, andj a host of antipodean friends, wh>m he has promised to visit eighteen months hence , '".'." .• "'' ' {i : i Sqene-r- A- ward m a Scotch L infirmary. Lady visitor : " Are they kin 1 to yjou here?" Patient (who is recovering 4 1 frqm.his illness : and is ivery ravenous?): ", "Na, I never get half' ma fuK' I jL;V.: s V" lndeed U, Gould you. eat' an t . egg |?" Eat an'iegg ! ! "Cdulda' 4at '' :/: tw* ? Mem, I cotild eat the 1 chap that ;-jlaidtheni.r •■■; .■..-■•-' -.- : i, : ' — ;..;:> i • 1 Petrified human eyeballs seetn sonje- > what ghastly trinkets, yet accordiuec to the American Register, Western belles >■> are going crazy o vet these) novel orqa- . . r , me/its, . They are.the.prbs of the ancient ';' Peruvian's, preserved ,, by spme process now unknown, and are said to be of a beautiful tender green hpe,^flashing-like' Jf aiidpal. 1 At niffht However they ; lqse '-their colour, and become dull and heavy. ■ :jTh©j eyeballs look well- m a signet i ring , uPr hanging, to a watch . chain , : - and J tire •, ,«lso wernJn, brooches and [bracelets. ' ; :;> r; An American ; actress^ has sued an,i , 4 ,editor for .saying that her, age w;as over . , (SOf^eare. ;.The ;, .greater ',{he age, the^ Xgrealter the libeL. ' . .' ' . !,' . .. >. In ( those days ,of incessant; glqbe-trot-ting it is as well to know that nitrfto ;of amyl is a certain cure for sea-sioknoss. At least,' so says Mr W. 1 A. Dihgle,' L.R.C.P., who claims that when, a' surgeon m the Pi'J" and O's service he . found the drug act like a charm. Even . m cases which were not cured at Vi 9nee, . ; ;nitrite of amylTelieved the worist.sympr ■ . toms, and after a second or third inhalation of it the. patient b'ecatne perfectly ! \feTl. '.There is ; owe drawback ; tb v the ' remedy: ' It is 1 apt' to cause ad angerous depression of the heart . if administered m too large a dose.