MISCELLANEOUS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 72, 21 February 1884, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

An ambitious young writer having asked “ What magazine will give the highest position quickest ?” was told, “ A powder magazine, if you can contribute a fiery article.” The scar which an unkind word leaves upon a great love may be invisible, like that of great sin upon the tissues of the repentant soul; but, for one as for the other, life has no healing. The treasure-house of a man’s life is his heart, and he who has nothing there is poverty-stricken, though he roll in gold; while he who has a good deal there is rich, whether he has a roof over his head or not. A Sanitary Congress—a meeting of scaven--86 How to restore old books—carry them back to the owner. There is but one university in life, and that is where the heart is educated. Always behind hand—the wrist. Always a foot —the twelve-inch rule. Always ahead—the source of a river. “ Who wrote Shakespeare?” queries a contemporary. Probably some fellow who wanted William’s autograph. The Rev. Sydney Smith being asked by a lady w’hy it was reported that there were more women in the world than men, he replied “Itis in conformity with the laws of Nature, madam ; we always see more of heaven than earth.” Ma,” said Miss Parvenu, “Jennie Jones has been presented at Court in London.” “ That’s nothing,” replied ma ; “ why I was in Court two whole weeks when my sister was getting her divorce. We’re just as good as the Joneses,” More drunken people are arrested in Glasgow and Edinburgh on Sundays than on any other day in the week.

In Leipsic a great musical event has been the revival of Weber’s “ Oberon,” with the dialogue set to music, almost exclusively from Weber’s motifs, by Wullner. The task has been accomplished with extraordinary ability and fine feeling, but the great addition to the length of the work, as well as the change in style, which detracts from the original purpose of Weber’s opera, make the addition of doubtful value. Teresina Tua, the young violinist, and Herr Robert Fischhof, pianist from Vienna, where the novelties in the opening concert of the “Gewaulhaus” series, the last that will be given in the hall made famous by every illustrious artist from Mozart downwards. Not by tens, but by hundreds, can the giants in the realms of sound and song who have charmed the walls be counted. “ Tristan and Isolde ” has been the wonder of the Vienna opera season, and, with the exception of “ Parsiful,” the whole of Wagner’s works were to be given in December in the Austrian capital. There are more cures made with Hop Bitters than all other medicines. See flags and all. When the brain is wearied, the nerves unstrung, the muscles weak, use Hop Bitters. Read.