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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2346, 23 September 1880, Page 3

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Cabby’s Idea of Hire Education. ■ Knowing how to charge. He put it down without anyone telling him to do so,and peevishly remarked that “ a woman was a fool to set a redhot flat iron on a kitchen chair.’ “ I would box your ears, ’ said a young lady recently to her stupid and tiresome admirer, “if ” “If what T he anxiously asked. “ If,’’ sue replied, “ I could get a box large enough for the purpose,” When the announcement of the Liberal victory was made to Prince Gortschakoff he was sitting up in his sick bed hardly able to dip his biscuit in the claret he was sipping- His face lighted up, he laughed outright,instantly dictated a letter to the Czar, and took a new lease of life. One of the chief uses made of the recent convocation at St Paul’s, Londou, was preparing the way for the use of Latin instead of English in the Church services. The litany of the convocation was said in Latin by the Bishop of Rochester. A Latin hymn having been sung, Archdeacon Ralston preached a Latin sermon. At the conclusion, the “ Gloria” and even directions for the election of a productior were given in the same tongue. There is a' certain peer of England, formerly very prominent in politics, who has lately disappeared from the public gaze. The reason has never yet been given in print, but it is this : That he is subject to kleptomania, and wherever lie goes he pockets loose articles. He is very wealthy and his fading is known in London society and condoned, but his public career is over. The Duke of Westminster has broken through the practice, which has prevailed of late years, of giving the sncccsful Derby jockey £I,OOO, and has given £SOO instead. It may he expected that others will follow the example of the millionaire Duke.