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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1633, 12 February 1886, Page 2

Many ladies who have Inspired tq literary fame can remember the bitter, ness of spirit" and the wounded prida with which they received the first intimation from an editor quietly notifying the fact that the production they valued so highly was "declined, with thanks^* It is said that a young ladyjsent ;anful/ iicle to Messrs Harper Brbtherrftfr'iiiS sertion m their magazine. When she received an intimation, a little' later on, that it was declined with thanks, she was quite furious. She. wrote back to the ' publishers, telling them that they were a low, mean set. She added that she, -had.* intended naming her baby: " Harper,% but that now no infant of hers should' ever bear that name. • >;*'« Verily the lines have fallen to our| State scholars m pleasant places, apcli ;they have a goodly heritage. Our local 2 ■> committee o^ert themselves to the utmost to make up whatever may be lacking m the abundant provisions /nlade ibj* the Educational Department 'for 4hl Jiei. cessities and the comfort of the youag New Zsalanders m this? part of the country. The latest step m this direction has taken the form of a luxurious lavatory at the rear of the school. The arrangement is no* mere pump and trough business, such as wo were content with m -tuc younger days, but a nice buildinjjJ divided into compartments for' tht sexes, with rows of metal basins, W»Jftr laid on from a tank, and every other con* venience. — Bruce Herald. I have good reasons to believe (says tHe London correspondent of the -Lyttel-^ ton Times) that if the New -Zealand Government would open up , the Kin? Country to settlers under proper restrictions there would be a large influx of British capital into that district. It it well-known amongst the Anglo-New Zealanders that Mr Ashbury, late MiP» for Brighton, who k the owner of largt \ estates at Invereargill, would have preferred to have made his investments m ; the King Country had it been 'possible to do SO. "The most carefully edited/jonrjoalr i« fallible," says the London 'Literary World. "In the Times office, ift ii said, proof-readers are fined for every blander that elndes them. On the New. iYork Herald they have been suspended for weeks. In spite of this severe 'disbipKn* the Her aid once made the astonishing announcement that 'a long line of §00x91, pion's feather's filed into the chureljr\snstead of ' surpliced fathers.' .A reporter on that paper had occasion to quote a verse from a famihar hymn m which the word 'herald' ocourred. . The' : 'prooft reader dutifully under scored the word, and the verse appeared :— ' Hark, th» Herald angels sing.' ft was' r <itin jjjjb World' 8 report of a political meeting that the word ' shout ' was so ludicrously misprinted as to make : the s . blunder famous, 'The snouts of, ten thousand Democrats rent the air.' read the report.' A few years ago the journalist whfcr f ii widely known as ' Gath ' wrote a r fourth of July article. With fervid eloquence he told how the effete monarchies of the whole world trembled, m their«boot« when they read the immortal _woidc penned by Thomas Jefferson. 7 **'TbrOTsi reeled,' wrote the impassioned? Gath. Next morning he saw in***type— 'Thomas reeled.' The story is., told that Earnest Eenan once had occasion' to telegraph across the British Channel the subject of a proposed lecture of his m Westminster Abbey. The ■ subject at written by him was " The Influence of Borne on the Formation of Christianity.' It was v published m England*fcs ' The influence of Rum on the Dictation of Humanity." \ '■ A hail; or ice storm of unprecedented severity swept over Woodburn and diitrict, New South Wales, aifewnighti ago. Pieces of ice measuring up to 12 inches m circumference, and weighing from Boz to 16ozs, fell for'aoout fiv« minutes, killing several horses and cattle, poultry and pigs. The ice came through the roofs of houses, completely;i@dljng them, as if they were paper. Nearly all the windows m the district are broken. The damage to the crops is considerable, amounting to several thpusandSKctf pounds. The greater portion of the early maize is destroyed. A few persons were wounded by the hail, but no one is reported as seriously hurt. While the storm lasted many faintod iandsoifie were panic-stricken. Suoh a heavy fall of ice was never known before.