SELECTED ARTICLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 170, 6 November 1876, Page 3

SELECTED ARTICLES.

EXPERIENCES OF THE LATH SUIT AN'B' PIANIST. P&t .Litovttt announces amen ? its mtwtcat items the arrival in Paris of one Donizetti, professor of piano music to the fate Saltan, Abdttli Asia* through whose death the amsiciaa has test Ma situation.. Donizetti, wtvo, it appears* is a nephew of the author of " Favorita," describes his experience o'clock In tie-morning to« play for three Soars-_ Yets mast be in fait uniform ; ym •rfUls for seven hours hi an elegant ml lory here you are forbidden to ait dotvti. <•- From time to time they come to tell you what is going on in his Majesty's spartraents. ' ilia Highness is going tourism' The moment you hear finis yoa must prostrate ycttrself. * His Highness fegoifig to' the bath.' Again yon prostrate yourself tower than ever. And so Hie- mteAigimca "continues, until yon are wanried beyond endurance, and the Saltan i» finally ready. Then an immense grand piano is brought in without its leys, for tile floor of the gallery ts a precious mosaic of the rarest woods,, and may not bear t lie weight of a piano even. The iwmerwe instrument is placed on the backs of fcve wretched Turks, suitably placed on their Sands and ku©ek ' Bat.' say yotn ' I cannot play on a tiva-Turk piano/ Supposing yott complain that the instrument 18 not level, tlxey gracefully ptaee a cushion undwrthe knees. oi the small. at Turk, and fell yon to proceed, without suspecting tlia sentiment of humanity that has occasioned the delay. The Saltan appears, and, after all manner of prostrations, yon ask for a chair. There ts none; nw one over sits in the presence of the Saltan. Tou protest you cannot play unless you sit, and the Sultan finally orders a euair to be produced. You play for an hour or jo, and alter the Saltan has watched the affect «n litis followers until he b weary, Ha rudely thrusts you aside and takes your place. The eunoctk* and the rast awake and applaud his* discords with rapturous exclamations, and after fu: has amused himself thus until he is satisfied of the superiority of his-ntoaic over yours, you are dismissed. And this it is to be a pianist to a Sultan. "

_ A NICE WIFE. The «oae of Winter v. Winter was heard uu 21st all;,, at the Supreme Court, Melbourne. It was a petition for divorce ©a the grotfidi ©f adultery. The petitioner waa married. to the respondent at Melbourne oa tM 16th September, 1371, and lived with lWr till October, 187«». On the evening of the 30th October, 1875, circumstance® occurred which ied hi«* to suppose that tub* wife was too intimate with his cousin, Boberii Winter, that he told her he had done with her for the future, and refused to let her occupy the same room that night. She then said, " I may m well teU yot», for it would hare been all oat in a fortnight ;it has been all arranged. I love every hone ia his body, and even the ground he walks apoo-* r Next morning Mr*. Winter gave to one of the servants, named H.rnnah Slender, flatter to deliver to Robert Winter. But the petitioner noticed the circumstance, ®od he fallowed the girl, and took the wfwc The. letter «iu as folM*"*

f "My own, own darling pet,—Oh, Bob, if you forsake me now, what will become of ! me ( I have told him that I love you, 1 and that lam going with you. Now, tell me, what shall I do f <>f course, I did u<"t aleep with him last nig;.', bttfc I want y«u to sec when and whtiv 1 <•..:> you, for I have a lot to tell you. say I never did wrong with you. Send me a ttue back by Hannah, for you may imagine how and what I feel. However, ■ pet, 1 do not regret it, if yon are only true to me. Do write me what I shall do.— Your ever loving and true Birdie. He i» nttf. very Htt>,r a-jainst either —but me more than you. Shall 1 comedown to see you at the stockyard, or you can c>me to the laundry t but I must sea you, pet t The petitioner then charged t:?e respondent with infidelity, and directed her to leave the place. She and Robert Winter have since gout) to New Z. aland. One of the servant a at the petitioner's house proved having seen the respondent and co-respondent together under circumstances which left no doubt o» the criminality of the parties. The respondent was now acting as barmaid in New Zea'and. The Court granted a decree for dissolution of marriage.

A CURIOUS PROBLEM. A correspondent supplies a "V ictorian paper with the following statis.ics, which are at least very crrious" According to the most authentic and reliable statements, the total population of the globe is about 1,335,000,000. Of these _it is reckoned there are 185,000,000 in the Church ; 8-1,000.000 in the Greek Church ; and 110,000,000 of various Protestant sects and parties, giving as the population of the so-calted Christian world 380,000.000, and reckoning 5,000,000 Jews, there are left 9.">0,000,000 of human beings who are unacquainted with the Bible, and who know nothing of the religion of Christ ; Pagans, who have no religion, 100,000,000; Mahometans, 150,000,000 ; and 630,000,000 devoted to the Asiatic religions. To send one missionary to each 5000 of the heathen population it wonld require 190,000. To give £IOO a year to each, the sum of £!£>,000,000 per annum would be necessary. Reckoning at the same rate, China alone, with her population of 400,000,000, would require 80,000 missionaries, who would cost £8.000,000 ti year. There are now- employed iu the heathen world about 3)0 ordained ministers, and 12,000 lay preachers, iu all 15,."00. During the last seventy-tive years, it is estimated one million and a half have been converted front heathenism to Christianity, or at the rate of 200,000,000 iu 100 years. Statisticians have recently calculated that the population of the globy is increasing, at the least, at the rate of 5,000,000 yearly, or 300,000,000 in sixty years. At what rate U the Christian Church multiplying her convert.* f"

CONSUMPTION' OF FISH IN LONDON. A year's sttppEy to lltUEftipijaiie marker ta estimated »+ Salmon. 29,«i00 boSefl, 7 trt a bt»x : c»«1, alive, 400,000, averaging lOlbs. each ; ditto, barrelled, 15,000 barreUt, ~'o tr> a barrwi ; ditto, salt, 1,600.000. averaging each ; harlflwfcit, 2.470,0€>0. at 2£bsr. each : ditto, gawked, (kx«)0O barrels, 300 to a barrel; antes, W,.*20,000, at |4b. cash ; mackeryi, 23,620,000, at lib. each ; herrings, 250.000 barrtEs, at 150 each ; ditto, rati, 100,000 barrels, at 500 each ; ditto, bloaters, 283,000 baskets, at 150 each eetst, 9,000,000, at (i to 1 U>. ; whiting, 1T,820,000, at Ooza. each ; plaice, 3n,W0,0€»0, at lU>. each ; tnrhot, 800,000, at Tib. each : brill and mullet, 1,2*20,000, at 3lb. each ; ousters, £.00,000,000, at 400 to a |>we.k ; crabs, 600,000; lobsters, 1,200,000 ; prawns, 12 tuna, at 120 to lb : shrimps, it>2,2Js gallons, at 320 to a pint.