Miscellaneous Items.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1618, 26 January 1886, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items.

i;.!f:l- .tell -across an amusing story the : other day m Madome Adam's book, "La Patrie tlon-,-groise." Hungary, says Madame v A>d«.in, # warms with, barristers. It is the ambition of the Hungarian! —peasant to make one of his sons an „ advocate, as it is the ambition ol' the - Breton and the Irish peasant to ; make one son a priest. The son of a ' small farmer m the neighborhood of -'~-Pesth was sent by his father to the • law school of the town, but, either "'from want of parts or application, 'was plucked m the qualifying examination. Not daring to v- return home empty handed, after all •■''the money that had been spent on , his education^ he forged a legal 'diploma. The farher, however, was ' not so ignorant as not to be aware v that such diplomas are always written jviOnj .parchment Kutj/a-ber-Wog skiu" j ! ■ m. Hungarian. "Why is your certinot made out on Kutya-berT 1 asked the old man. "The fact is, : ' father," answered the youth, "that there are more barristers than dogs uin Hungary, and so there is not enough Kutya-ber to make diplomas ■"■".for us all*" . ' '"A. good many years ago three boys ipltfypi- truant, from school (Penolk, " & A l)!)Vnd by way of passing a pleasant afternoon perched themselves on the pound fence and threw stones at the v , t notice-board m an earnest emulation • ■■> iaw to which could most successfully disfigure it. Nemesis, m the shape of '^Constable Grordon, the local police- . man, overtook two of them aftei a ': chase, m which the long legs of the constable proved of inestimable /.value. The smallest of the boys :. 'disappeared. The wary constable looked everywhere, bat the little scapegrace was nowhere to be seen. It was not until an informer assisted t jhipa.) that he espied him seated on a limb of a peppermint tree as far out as he could possibly go. The constable ordered him down, but little Tommy -■■ ■ declined; he- threatened to follow him . out to <,he end of the branch, but didn't do it:' kftei a lengthened parley Tommy surrendered, and Constable Gfcordpii: detained the youngsters for and hour and let them go. Tommy ; r . says, that -Gordon- taught him a lot (m, riding afterwards, although he was not game to ride, on the same limb -. of the peppermint tree. Gonstable :/. Gordon was the gifted Lindsav i ■ "Gordon the Australian poet, and <o "little Tommy " is. now Tom Hales i>o the jockey! — Australasian. ~ ■ h The disposition of alf employers to dispense with men who drink to ; ;' excess when they can get sober ones is on the increase. Twenty years , ago the newspapers of all large cities 'were frequently the nests and roots t--1 ing-places 'of a lot of "hard citizens." 'They are banished now. An interceder for a discharged drunkard from a morning paepr recently begged the editor to remember that "Jim has a •wife and two children to support." "It so happens," replied the editor, "that the sober man whom I have put m Jim's place has a wife and four , children. Ie should always be remembered that every expulsion of a bummer leaves a position for a decent ' man. We don't run an inebriate asylum or a moral reformatory." That sound principle is pervading all trades, professions and occupations. "Jackasses and savants to the rear!" was the order m Napoleon's Egyptian campaings on the eve of a battle. "Bummerr and boozers to the rear!" is the orde. all along the lino of business .Business is getting to be more and more , a- conflict, and all useless baggage and camp followers must get out of the w ay.—De troit Free Frew: