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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1578, 10 December 1885, Page 2

Four thousand Anarchists paraded fa Chicago on. a Sunday recently, and closed the day with picnic, beer, and dancing. The earliest known occasion of tbt name '* pianoforte " being publicly used m London wan m a playbill dated May, 1767. The piece announced was "The Beggars' Opera," and part of the attfaction is thus given :—" Miss Buckler will sing a song from Miss f Judith, 1 accompanied by Mr Dibbin upon a new instrutnent called pianoforte.' " A rery amusing episode occurred during the hearing of the sheep case afc the Foxton Court ou Wednesday last. Counsel for the defence, Mr AS. Baker, was cross- examining a witness as to the age or the lambs which had been worried. "How old weje these lambs?" asked counsel, " About six weeks" was the answer. '' Had they. long tails or short tails?" The witness appeared amazed at the question, and could not restrain bis laughter, when^' my learned friend " said—" Well, I want to get an idea of the size of these lambs. W« don't know anything about ahesp here, you. know. We are all donkeys m a> case of this kind." Here his Worship interposed, and with witheriug emphasis on the first work, briefly stated— il Not&\\, Mr Baker, if you please!" The Court was convulsed, and counsel followed that - line of examination no further. — Foxton paper. " That boy of you're is not adapted ' for the undertaking business," explained, an undertaker, to the boy's father, who enquired* why he had been discharged. " What's the raattor with him ?" "He hasn't a realising aanse of what is due the afflicted. Day b<ford yesterday Mrs B. buried her fourth husband. I Bsii l l lie. boy up to learn at what hour she wished the ceremony to take place, and he asked her what her regular time of day was for burying huabands. I expect to loso her trade entirely." A receipt for insurance is not sufficient m the oye of the law to enable a person to recover m ca»e of fire. Nothing but a policy will enable him to successfully recover at law. The Jane Douglas has been detained m Wellington on account of the gale, and wMI not leave Foxton till Saturday at 11 p.m. . The tender of Messrs Meyrick and Perrin has been 'accepted for the erection of the refreshment booth ou the raco course, price £21 10. Last year 2,841,911 rabbits were destroyed m Tasmania, and the value of skins exported was £14,573. lodiffer* ent farming has as much to, do with tho increase of rabbits m that country as anything else. Gorge fences have been left to themselves until they hare extended over hundr«ds of acres, iv some instances so enroaching upon roads orer which there is constant traffic that there is barely room left for vehicles to pass through. In iwmy uasos th* old log * fences which were erected m the earlt«r d.-iyn still remain with a wilderness of gorso, brior and weeds on either side of them. There is so much shelter for rabbits m Tasmania, that it is doubtful if the most ouergctic efforts could ever extermiuate the pest now it has such ft hold. x