A Hasty Exit.

Otago Witness, Issue 2896, 15 September 1909, Page 87

A Hasty Exit.

f" And how long were in your last place?'* asked. Mrs Croxjey, as the most promising" ; and-, at the same time, the plainest of the applicants for the vacant situation, api peered before hex. "Well, mum," replied the girl, "to telf .the truth, I was no sooner in than I was out again." I -"How extraordinary! Can you accountf ( for it?-" • ' a I "No, mum, unless- it is. that- I'm good looking — not that I soy I any— but the lady says to me : ' Your master has a liking' for I pretty faces, and is. ' a good judg» oi I •" I shouldn't think that was the reason 1 . Come, now, tell me Did nothing else; transpire? " f. "Not another thing. I just looted at her r and said that from what I could sea ' of things her husband had- mode at least I one mistake. When I cause to my eensaa j I was lying at the foot of the steps with ! my box on top of me ! "

— Th» Yanfl. language of Northern California represents a distinct linguistic stock, and had fomnerly three dialects, one of wihioh is now. extinct. It possesses two forms of speech, one- of which is employed by men speaEfng to men, while the other is used ia aril otiher cases. Practically the language has only nouns and verbs, the adjectives, adverbs, numerals, interrogative pronouns, and conjunctions being formed from the- verbs. — Th» Mosque of Eyoub, where Mohammed V was invested with th» sword gf Osman, is sometimes termed " the Westminster Abbey of Tunkey," for within itt walls all save one or two of the long linx of Ottomar Sultans have undergone tb« ceremony which corresponds to coronation. The Mosque, though n<y large, is a magnificent example- of Ch-ierital architecture, built of white marble and decorated with Persian tiles. It stands amid kwely gtroves at tJ» extremity of the Golden Horn, and derives its name frpm Eyoub, friend and standardbearer of- the Prophet, who was killed a* the first siege of Constantinople, and whose burial-place the Mosque is eeid to oarer. It is esteemed the- holiest Mussulman temple in Europe, and remains to this day untrodden by non-Moslem feet.