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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1311, 19 April 1883, Page 2

An Irishman once tried to shoot a Httlk chirping bird with an old Queen Anne musket. He fired. The bird I with a chirrup or two flew away unconcerned in the foreground, and Pat was swiftly and noiselessly laid on his spine in the background. Picking himself up atid shaking his fist at the bird, he exclaimed : “Be jabbers I ye wouldn’t a chirruped if ye’d been at this ind of the gun.” In these anarchical days it is well tb icno# how to deal with the apostles of equality; During the stormy days of 1848, fourstalwul mobocrats entered the bank of the late Bar® Anselm de Rothschild of Frankfort, and dW manded a fair division of his wealth. “Very well, what do you suppose the firm of Da Rothschild is worth J" “ About forty millions of florins.” Forty millions, you think, eh! Now there are forty millions of people in Germany ; that will be a florin apiece. Here is yours."

The Salvation Army "officers” now ifi Dunedin are said to be gifted with great fluency of speech. They wear a uniform of dark blue with scarlet collar, on which ap* pear the letters "S.A.j" While on the bread fa a badge in the shape of a shield, with the motto “ Blood and" Fire?’ The cap haa a scarlet band round it on Which appear* the words "Salvation Army." At a recent meeting, Captain Burford explained the purpose for which the Army wae formed. He said they wore peculiar dresses and had " their funny goings-on,” so as to attract notice and to induce people to listen to them. They were not learned, but, bleu the Lord, they knew they had passed from death unto life I and their reason for going forth into the world was to lead other* the same Way, They did not preach sermon*, because they could not—and if they could the General would not allow them. The General knew they were not able to preach and so would not let them—and that wa» a good job, for they would be sure to get into a nice old mess. They simply came to tell sinner* thd 5 good news, so that they might get all Consecrated to God. Some people had told them there was no need for them in Dunedin, but, " bless you," he had been up early and late since he came here, and had seen abundant need for them. They did not want money-' if anyone gave them £lOOO they could not keep it and remain in the Army, He WM born in Brighton, and at an early age w*n» to London, where he became t coltermonger; He had wandered far from the true path, Mt although he had been a great sinner he now know that he was saved. In hi* further re. marks the captain identified the Salvationist* with the "peculiar people" referred te in prophecy. The Martini-Henry rifle (we lean from I London paper) has not proved an unqualified success, The breech action did not satilfadtorily stand the rough usage to which it wal neoesiaarily subjected during the Egyptian campaign | end many of the weapon* haring been rendered virtually unservloable, litninary courts of inquiry have been hcldlH the definite action which tha higher military authirltlea may take depending upon th* report* which are presented oh the subject; A simple and efficacious method of koonomislng coal was given by Mr P. Teale is a lecture delivered before the philosophical Society Leeds. He says that our present Open fireplaces are all on the furnace system and advocates the adoption of a remarkably simple plan, which convert* them at once in: to slow combustion grate*. A plate of iron to enclose the apace between the hearth and the lowest bar of the grate is all that i* wanted, or, in hi* own word*, " a Simple shield resting on the hearth and rising a* high as the bottom bar of the grate." It costs two or three shilling*, and require* nd fixing or " man’s time." The economlMf make* three tons of coal do the work of tout By its universal use In the Leeds Infirmary it save £lOO a year. It consume* all cinder* and leave* at the bottom of the grate a find ash. It is reckoned that if everybody in the United Kingdom converted hi* fireplace into a slow combustion grate on the principles laid down by Mr Teale, there would be a saving in the consumption of coal of nearly 9,000,000 tons in the year. The Rev P. L. Cameron, tn a letter to the Wanganui Chronical, wind* up in the following terrific strain i—" Anonymous letterwriting is a growing evil in our colonial Press, and certain phases of it ought to be held up to public execration. That man is no man who cannot back up hi* charge with bi* name. What more damnatory social nveStalopy than to sneak up the back stair* of a rinting office with a letter—or a society aggerlf you like—the perfection of antistrophe, the shade of the inimical, the apostrophe of truth, exhibiting the belching* of inanition, the vulgarity of inuendo, tha animus of profanity, the teachings of apocrypha, and which throw* mud like a gutter Arab, with no principle* of lex non eeripta; entering the seat of judgment with exsanguinous mean ria pone aainorum, and quotes pare pro toto, and then pronounces sentence } but a Roman would have said of such, * Panda fidee ne entor ultra crepidaui." Pardon my trespass.” We hope this fulmination will have have no serious effect on the mental organisations of the people of Wanganui. Wo have not the least doubt it will c found quite unanswerable. Ext. Do I—What ia the most appropriate fish for a carpenter's dinner!—Stowe deals, of course I