GENERAL NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8890, 9 August 1907, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

A humourous incident oomrrcn at, Washington, United _ States, vuucu I has sot society laughing. PrcsiOfti.t Kooscwelt had boon invited to laj corner stone of the new Masonic Temple, and during _ the ceremony t!io Grand Mu-stcr tied a Masonm apron around the. President, and in doing so csijosod the hr.lt or a re •‘olver which protruded from the President’s back pocket, Groat amuscnieut was caused, as it is not goner- , allv known that Mr Roosevelt mires any means for self-protection. i.t appears that though detectives have been told off for some years to accompany him and keep cranks and i possible"assassins from him, he was . recently induced to carry a revolver,. especiai.lv when he went out by himself, and" on his morning horseback rules. Ho took his usual ride in the morning and evidently forgot to icmove his revolver on his return. ; That much (and deservedly ) camdimmed periodical, the School Journal, is cruelly summed up m the “Inky Wav” column of the Hnllctm —‘ ‘ Maorilaud Education Department rrives about the largest salary known 1” u those parts to a scissors and paste ■ artist The editor of the lately established School Journal has a month in which to clip his work, and gets Sb a week. It isn't likely he doPcciuts to glueing the work of Valter I Scott ;md Kipling on to tiny ,P ! himself, because p.J«'stums ! aiwavs have rising glnciv who can i Pc’ deioeuded on to attach a whole ii artich- on a slip witidn tyn -lays or [ a fortnigoit. The IvlineePeu Department laughed to scorn (lie applications of any mi ro journalists lor the kiddies’ paper job—men with experience but no trail of alphabet alter their names. Only an At.A. is permitted to saw pieces off Motley and Kingsley and other children’s authors, and issue them once a mouth for £-Hfi a year’.’ -V challenge, to mortal combat was road out at'the meeting of the Selwyn Couutv Council on Saturday. It'originated in this manner : Dome time ago the Council employed a man to grub gorso on a property at Hornsby and in duo course presented its little bill far the work to the tenant, of the property in question. Ho, however, refused to pay up and look ■ nlesaaut, tut wrote to the Council stating that ho had been overcharged, and would like to interview the man who had taken such a- long time to do such a little gMihboig. This communication was sent on to the man who laid done the work, and elicited a very heated reply, the last part of the letter being as follows ; “I have no time to wastcy with the man who made the complaint, hut he has only to put it in a plainer way and call mo a ‘loader,’ and then I will meet him.” _ TJio challenge can-ed a good deal cf laughter.” “Let them come home!” ejaculated one of the audience at an antiOhiucso mooting ajy Dunedin _ last v;ook, wiiou J-)r. Kirk hi o i 1 1 1 on< i ii that there were 1000 Kow Zealand traders and missionaries in China. The sneaker was incessantly interrupted' in endeavouring to move tm amendment, and when toe Hoy. Don mounted the platform the .interruptions came thicker Gil!. Mr Do.i said that ho did not expect. to get a. hearing, but 'he would tell those present that Mr i .lo.vd had made a “hotch-potch” of things by placing the negro and. the Chinaman in ihe same category. The last part ot Mi Don’s remarks read as follows : Mr Don: “There, are. 1)00,000 white people in New Zealand—” (Voices; “Kouscu.se!” and “V, Juit a. tale pitch!”) Mr Don: “And there h only one Chiuamu to ever', •; e wiiitc ” (A Voice; “One, tor many!”) Mr Don: ‘‘And ii aOt Brit'isiicrs can’t stand up against om Chinaman, they ought to go dov.n.” (Uproar.) Hero is the last pen-picture oi the Pope, from Mr Douglas tTaden’: ‘ Secrets of the Vatican’ ‘ Tiny present Pope wouni he; i so Te i. dy. it any .scene— a short, strongly-huilt oie miiu, with the head of an Irish peasent: strong' in simplicity, illnm:natod by goodness. full <1 sincerity, and sound judgment. _ As he walkei; round the room, holomg' to each hi: hand to he taken and kissed on tin ring, lie began with looking straight down into the upturned _ faces (tin audience was kneeling) till ids kind linens was checked hy the headstrong attitude of those who had scon nc harm in scheming for an audience ai which they intended to make a pro test of their ill-bred consciences. 1) is not easy to describe, the innali condescension which has given Pop; Pius X. a majesty of his own. Ho n the very t lie meet inheriting the earth. His completi

gentleness impressed me more than Leo XIII.’s strong drastic sense of illness. As I saw the white-capped, white-robed figure of the head of Roman Christendom pass, nix!parr 1 ! - iu«r midolajing, with an air of blossiu" ''round the kneeling ring, I knew that I was in the presence of true gentleness. Each person, after thev had kissed the great ruby on the Papal linger, and paused a few minutes to meditate or pray, rose, When the Pope had completed the circuit all knelt again, while _ Im gave his prayer and benediction ma Toleo free from all academic artij}Co . . . As suddenly as no. had entered, H/s Holiness was gone.” Though religious services are not usually associated with mirth nno laughter, there are times when it will not ho restrained, and this is just what happened at Hr. Peter’s SriKuHT SCrl(ho 0 11 101* ovomiu* Oli the occasion of Bishop Kcligau’s ad<Uvss to voiuus men. His Lorasnip had just "concluded a, strong address with the words ‘'Hod bless you all, ’ aud on resuming bis seat seemed to disappear from sight, -ill that could be seen was a pair of legs flourishing in the air. lie had struck a rickety chair, which at one'’ subsided beneath him. Shrieks ol laughter followed, in which no one joined more heartily than the Bishop himself. —Waikato Argus.