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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1208, 23 November 1882, Page 2

Referring to “ Isabel's ” impression® of the comet, “ Civis ” tells the following story in the “ Otago Daily Times :— <s Have you seen the comet, Mrs Maloney ?” asked the lady of the house. “ ’Deed, then, I have, m'm,” was the reply, “ and it’s quite an ornament to the sky'." As if this was not praise enough, she added q moment afterwards, “ And what a commodious tail it's got 1”

A novel expedient for impaiting tranquility to an agitated theatrical audience was (it is said by the “Era”) recently adopted by Mr Jack Harris, the lessee and manager of the Thalia Theatre, of San Antonia, Texas, United States. It would appear that one evening recently, tha auditorium being crowded at the time, some disturbance arose between the acts of the piece in representation, and, far from subsiding when the curtain was drawn up, increased in boisterousness to an extent that the actors, unable to make themselves heard, quitted the stage. Upon this Mr came on and aavanced to the footlights, holding in each hand a weapon of the claw known throughout the Union by the name of “navy revolver.” As he stood there bowing and smiling, obviously animated by a desire to address the audience, a slight lull in the storm set in, of which he took advantage to apprise his “friends and patrons,” with exquisite suavity of manner, that, if order were not restored in all parts of the house within two minutes, he should “just shoot round anyhow.” Perfect peace, amounting in fact to breathless and terrorstricken silence, having from the goodnatured warning, Mr Harris gracefully retired, and the performance was resumed without further delay.

The Earl of Harrowby, the Right Honor- ; able Dudley Ryder, K.G., whose death was announced in our columns a few evenings ago, was the eldest son of the late earl, and was born May 19th, 1798. He was educated at Christchurch, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1820, and afterwards M.A. and D*C.L. In 1819 he was returned to the House of Commons as one of the members for Tiverton which he represented till 1830, and sat for Liverpool from 1831 until 1847. He was Secretary to the India Board during the earlier part of Earl Grey’s administration, was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall under Lord Palmerston’s first • administration in 1855, and exchanged thatA post for the office of Privy Seal, which he ' resigned in December, 185*. Lord Harrowby who obtained the blue riband of the Garter in 1859 was well known as a philanthropist nnd a supporter of religious societies and charitable institutions. American newspapers are exulting over the case of a barber who has been fined 50 dollars and costs for cutting the hair of a simple-minded customer in a ludicrous manner for fun. A New York woman has attempted to commit suicide by swallowing three teaspoons.