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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1731, 11 June 1886, Page 4

The death is reported at Annapolis, TJ. S., from ooivjesUon of the brain, of Ca])tain James T. "Waddell, the commander of the celebrate.! steamship Sh^nundoiiit. He wan bora m North Carolina m 1824, and entered the American navy- in 1838. Whe.n ' tha civil war began he went into the Confederate service. Jn'liishe was given the command of the woll-known Shenandoah. m which ho sailed into tlie Nqi thorn Pacilic, entered the . Arctic sens' an<l destroyed thousands of doliars' worth of commerce The ■war had ben over nine monili3when he heard from an English vessel, ' that pence had tarn concluded. Must of his people begged of him' to run the vessel asl-ore and let each m«n look out for himsel!'. This Captain Wandell refused to do, but set sail for Liverpool, where he arrived m due ti'ijc. running the gauntlet of the United States Navy of 20,000 mile*. Be surrendered to the Queen of Englandtl>e only instance of the kind on record. He bad a narrow esctpe, for an American war steamer was clde at his beels. The Referee is responsible fnr the following r.-fVes-'ing story • " Give me some bicarbonate of magnesia and sulphate of potash," said on<» of the most popular members of Emerson's Minstrel Com pan v to a barmaid at a prominent bo ; nl m Christ church. "Very sorry,'' she replied suavely, were ju<t i nt of it ; l»ut \ou will Hud bromide of sodium and sticks t>cid an elep-ant morning rcl'renher* :{ Don't uae it," said the " burnl. cork " artist," bill I'll tak a lethia cocktail with a little bicarbonate of line." " Got me again," said the yoxing lady," but how would some sulpuretted hydrogen and acetate of lead suit yon, ?"• »' That,ll do," said the tisilor. And he parted with a sixpence for a nip of whisky. A rare wpecacle was recently witnessed m the "ncimal park" of Herr Hiigcl'eck, a Hamburg dealer ia wild animals. Among the animals that had been brought over by the Singale>e troop that astonished and delighted Gerimtny during the past year there was a large elephant which had seven*! times before shown Bigns of vieionsness. It was finally resolved to kill the animal, which had been etttimatd at the value of ,£6OO. An Englishman of sporting propensities, who had offeued to pay £50 for a «!iot at a sick- elephant whenever the occasion for such pastime mi^ht arise, vhm at ouce ti'le£rrahed f<»r, but it pre--Beni.-e of the savapre fury of the nniroal he renounced his intention of firing. Hereupon it was determined to strangle the I east. Chains were passed round the elephant's neck. By the aid of two pulleys they were cljmwtj tighter nrtfl lighter, till nt end often minutes the mounter expired' -