GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 65, 28 December 1878, Page 3

GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Pretty girls nre often ill-shnped, and still oftener deformed by compressing their form to suit (ho exigencies of molerii dress. This is a perfectly natural sequence of tho conditions of costume. A beautifully formed woman shows to poor advantage in modem drapery. She appears, to eyes trained to admire a. purely artificial outline, thick waisted, and .straight up and down. The reason is not remote.' Modern costume is made, not to rovealsbeauty, but to conceal defects. The waist, or cincture, is far too low, and divides the body into two parts, hideously ami artificially, besides weikoning the muscles on which a beautiful waist depends, by supporting them, instead of letting them support themselves.— Alma-Tadenia. There is a rumour that Princess lioatrieo will be married to the new Duke, of Cumberland, who will take his m y from Bismarck and content himself with an English title and u Qoyal English bride.

Tin 1 South Austruli:iii Advertiser gives the following description of " the remark* abb 1 incklenl which occurred at the Itev. Charles Clark's lecture <>n ' Charles Dickens,'at Qawler, on September 30. The [nttitute-holl was crowded to it* utmost capacity, and amongst the audience waa Mr. James Harris, the well-known storekeeper, of Qawler and Kapunda Mr. Harris was accompanied by his wife and family. Mr Clark, had gol u far as Mis. Qaiup's tea-party, ami whenever be mentioned tlie name of Mrs. Harris Mr. Harris was heard muttering, * He .-han't,' ■ Stop it,' and on being called to order In- cried, ' i won't; I'll punch liis head.' Mr. Clark, in a conciliatory touo, requested his interrupter to be quiet, when Mr, Harris stood up and shoutod, ' Then don't yon talk about Mrs, Harris. That lady's in the room.' Mr. Clark went on deprecatingly,' Hut, my dear sir, Diokens invented Mrs. Harris nearly forty years ago; I have been lecturing about her for more than ten years, and never before was 1 interrupted in this unseemly manner.' 1 don't care,'said Mr. Harris, 'you stop, or 111 knork you down,' snaking bis list at the eminent lecturer. Here a tremendous uproar ensued. The audience cried, ' Sit down,' ' Tut him out.' Mr. Clark threatened to have his noisy auditor removed, and in the end Mr. Harris, yielding to the solicitations of his family, left the hall, and Mr. »'lark, amidst vociferous cheering, resumed his lecture. When the confusoiii was at its height, two or three Indies fainted.

A Now York papersays: —" Protection, which claims to foster tin? skilled lahour uf the country, is merely a stalking-horse, under cover of which the people arc robbed by tin' capitalists engaged in the protected industries, so that the sole benefit of the tax which is laid upon tin- consumer is enjoyed by the protected capitalists. The ninth census shows that in 1870 there were in the United States l2,Joc,'J2'-i persons engaged in all classes of occupations. Of these, the pitiful number uf 4-,'577 manufacturing capitalists reap the fruits of the sacrifice which the country foolishly makes in the name of home industries ! To this small and favoured class the remaining 12,403,04(1 workers pay the exorbitant tax imposed upon everything they oat, or wear, or d". It is to these 4-2.:{77 persons that the JS,GN4, 793 farmers and agricultural labourers of the country pay that cleinonl in the cost of producing and transporting their crops created by tho tariff, and wiii -h l'i ■; !: iva noliuo,. to tin fare! r for profits. It ia to them that the •2.11N K7'J3 persons engaged in professional and personal services pay a daily tax out of the laborious earnings of brain and body. And. lastly, it is to these 42.K77 protected capitalists that their 1,.").')4,.")U0 employes—the dupes of protection—pay so roundly, in diminished wages and the enhanced cost of living, for tii o privilege of btmg protected. Ihe I •2,4(i3,040 non-protected workers go about their daily tasks with the motto, Sie vos non nobis, while tho 4:>.n77 protected capitalists grow fat upon their folly. If it be true that a fie cannot live, protection should surely he near its end. A Pittsburgh paper speaks of a young man " who shot himself in the West tiwl one evening last week." Them is nothing like being explicit. The young man is severely hut not filially wounded; hut if he had'shot himself in the southwest end, 1 a little northerly, veering southeasterly, there would have been no hope of his r very.

One View of the Case:—Master :" Yon say Alfred the (treat was a very excellent king, and did much good for his subjects; now give ine an instance of his good d Is." ' Small boy (just recovered from a billious attack and the paternal wrath] : " I'lease, Sir, ho burns some nasty, unwholesome cakes, that would have made the shepherd ill." A Turkish merchant of good standing in Rustchuk was at Bucharesl the other day <m business. lie stated that his countrymen hud found in their Koran a prophecy that in the year 1890 a Great L'ower would come to the assistance of Turkey, and she would then throw off her incumbrances. He declared that tho Turks would never live under the Bulgarians. He sooke in a friendly way of the Russians, and said his countrymen were well heated in Rustchuk, where the Russians prevented the Bulgarians from oppressing them; hut that when the foreign restraint was removed, a decisive issue would have to lie tried between the Turks and Bulgarians, and if the latter proved the stronger, then the Moslems would quit the country. The existence of a belief in such a prophecy as that above quoted, coupled with the feeling between Turks and Bulgarians and the social condition of the two rival races, afford* combustible material much too dangerous to be dealt with by paper agreements. Unless there are foreign troops, or nt least foreign officers to command natives in all Bulgaria and Llouuielia for years to same, there will certainly be anarchy, bloodshed, and ruin worse than Europe has ever seen in those provinces. The merchant also stated that the Mussulmans cared nothing for the loss of the Dobruilscba, as the population is mongrel and contains very tew real Osmauli.

Tin" garter given to the llarqui* of Salisbury is tho one K-ft vacant by the doatli of Bart ButtoL It may not be generally known that it was the Oounteee of SuliiDory'i garter that founded the order.