Untitled

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1614, 21 January 1886, Page 2

A good ]oke is going the rounds with sespect to a Scotchman who has been recently knighted. Sir Richard ; Cross, who had "the braw laddie" m towp carefully enjoined that he was to take< the Queen's hand and raise it reverently to his lips. All this he promised to do, but at the critical moment he forgot his lesson, and,; seizing the Queen's hand, gave it a fervid shake, exclaiming : "Many thanks, your. Majesty, many thanks;" Sir Richard nearly feinted with horror, but the* Queen laughed goodnaturedly, ami thanked him for his hearty gratitude.— Exchange. All steel articles can be perfectly preserved .'from rust by putting a lump of freshly burnt litne m the drawer of thp case m which they are kept.. If f .things are to be iribveft '(as*a gnniti its case, for instance), put the lime m a inusliu; bag. Tin's is especially valuable for specimens of iron when fractured ; for m a moderately dry place the lime will not want any renewing for many years, as it is capable of absorbing a r largo quantity of moisture. Articles m use should be placed m a box nearly tilled with thoroughly pulverized slacked lime., Before using them rub well with a woollen cloth. Writes an exchange : — " Mr Edward Waketield, M.H.R.fdrSelwyti, addressed a very large meeting of his constituents at Leeston, on Friday night, and got a. splendid reception. No a line about his meeting was sent to us, or to the ; Wanganui papers. We have looked through a number of the leading journals of -the colony, arid there is not a word from -the Press Association m any of them about Mr Wakefield's 'address. In only one of a dozen papers that we have looked through, is there any mention of it.' It is understood that the Press Association is purely non-political. "What is ;the meaning of its silence auent a leading politician like; Mr Wakefield ? Is it an attempt tb boycott him ?";. The matter should be rigidly investigated." The constitutional disinclination of some people to pay up until compelled (remarks the Auckland ,geratfy ,'wag never more exemplified than m the case of the Telephone Exchange. Abci\t 130 subscribers have boen " cut bff " for beingin arrears, and about 30 are 'Still left out m the cold, mourning, a long way after Tennyson, '• 6 for] the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a bell that is still." It is pretty much t lie' Ba me state 'of affairs m connection with the ■ water rate. Some people actually allow the water to he cut' off^ and pay the 10s fine inflicted, sooner than pay the rate at due date. One morning twenty-nine years ;ago, the body of John Saddler, a celebrated. Irish .financier and speculator, was fouud, ■, lyjng stark and cold near Jackßtraw Castle, on Qampstead Heath, and near it the little vial containing prussi.e acid with wjiich, m the depths of despair, he hadrid himself of life. An inquest; was held, and the medical witness on the occasion was t)r Edward Staiihfon. About two months ago again another body was found, stark and cold, on nearly the sime spot, ' and the fi tigers ; still gripped a small bottle which had contained prussic acid. The body' was taken «p and recognised as that of the same Dr Edward Stannton, whom thpj weary passage of twenty-nine years had brought to the same end.— Exchange. The Chicago Times editorially says : The wife of a well-known citizen, on a morning a couple of weeks ago, soon after rising, ana while still engaged m dressing, asked her husband : 'Do' you know anybody named' Edsall or Esdale ?' A negative reply was given, and then a 1 Why do you ask?' She answered : • Because I dreamed that a man of that name was found drowned.' At the breakfast table the morning paper was read, and m one of its items of news : was the announcement of the disappearance of a young man named Esdhle, whose remains some ten days later were found m the lake. This is a boiSa, fido occurrence, just as related. Neither the husband. «ir wife had ever heard of. the name, and the first time they ever saw it was m the announcement of the mysterious disappearance of a person, who bore it.