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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5290, 9 March 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

A Patron of Art .—We take the following from the “ Detroit Free Press”:—The chief of police.was visited by a sharp-nosed, keen eyed woman, who carried a ehromo, loin, by 14in. in size in her hand, and who placed it before him and asked: “ Are youa judge of chrmos and oil paintings Weil, 1 can tell what suits me," he replied. ; “Can you tell one from the other!’' “Yes,’in." “ Andwhat do you call this?" “ That is a ehromo.” He wanted tosay that it Was the : worst one he ever saw, but he didn’t. “ How you are sure are you ?” she asked. “Certainly I am." “Well, that makes me feel a great deal better. I bought that yesterday of an agent for a ehromo, and ho had scarcely • left the house when some of the neighbors came in' and said he’d swindled me and that it was nothing but an oil painting. X thought I’d bring it down and got your opinion, and you say it’s a ehromo, do you!” “Ido.” “All right—thanks. IvValways teen an enthusiastic patron of art. and if that man had got four dollars .but of me on false pretences it would have kind o’set me up against the old masters." , “What did the -Russian soldiers send some hot grapes to the Turks for, papa?" asked a six-year-old, : who had been spelling out a newspaper paragraph.:' “ Hot grapes, my dear?” “ Yes, papa, the paper says, “ The Russians threw grapes hot for two hours.”