GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 70, 1 February 1879, Page 3

GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Will " a f.irthing damages " carry costs! It is not settled, not without much trouble aud th.-ee trials, that a farthing carries costs unless tho judges on the trial certify to the contrary. In Garnett v. Bradelv, tried Shrewsbury Assizes, Mr. Justice Atnphlett declined to certify. Tho Taxing Uaaterallowed full costs; Borons Pollock and Huddlestriri upheld hi"* ,'ecision in the Court of Exchequer, whither the defendant carried the case The Court of Appeal reversed the judgment ot the Court of Exchequer but Lords Hntherly, O'Hagan, Blackburn, and Gordon, in the Honse of Lords, rvoonSrmed the masters a'fion. and so Tor tho future equity and common law agree that a fanning carries

It. is tint an easy .natter to make • sensible speech :il>out female education, but Em-i Granville succeeded in doing it two weeks ago at the annual distribution of prizes in a North London school for girls. He remarket! that objections were verv often made against giving a high-class education to women. It was said that it might turn young ladies into pedants and into biue-stockings. He would certainly admit that he had met some very disagreeable specimens of womankind, who r. ally deserved those terms, but they were todies who bad some slight smatteri _- of knowledge, and who had not really received n sound and first-rate education. tlad not young men, however, occasionally been found to be pedajit.ie , «»><l ,»<>" ..i'»v»»,.. «s~ Another,objecKdi w.i.s that women were being taken m:t of their sphere; but was it perfectly . loar Ji.it a thorough moral, intellectual, and religious education must spoil tv >mec foi their own peculiar sphere, for cieir duties as daughters, wives, mothers, and members of the community! The times were past when a great literary character could asseit that it was easier for a coquette to marry than a highly instructed woman anil the time had come when men would Know how to appreciate those members of the opposite sex who fitted themselves by study and industry to become really useful members of the community to which they belonged. A " crack " shot in the United States has accomplished an unparalleled feat. The mark e man is Professor Charles E. Lhvight, of Wheeling, who, when shooting nc a target at a distance of 800 yards on August i-i, made 39 consecutive bull'seyes. This feat places hint at the head of long-range shots, and entitles him to a position in the representative team of th» United States. Four Italian climbers—MM Vaccarone, I'o-M, Xigra and Briosehi—have without guides, ascended Mouf Blanc on the Italian, and descended by the French side, a feal hitherto vainly attempted V German paper describes Prince Henry of Netherlands as one of the richest princes in tho world. A silver mine iu America brings him a princely income, and he has many Dutch, Itussian and other bonds, with 90 properties iu Holland—the inaxium number, for the King a.o.ie canonlyown 100—andsomein Other countries.

The small periodical comet known as Tetnpcl's, having been first discovered by that astronomer in LSU7, and observed at its next return to perihelion in the spring of 1873, has again been detected by Tcmpel himself at Florence on July 19th, and tho following night by Winnecke at Strasburg

A very strange stjry respecting a loveletter comes from Prescol. In August, 18G7, a young watchmaker at Covontry addressed a lettor to his fiancee at Present, hut the letter was never delivered. They were married and took up their abode in the sumo street at Prescot as thai in which tho lady formerly resided, aud a day or two ago both were greatly surprised at Motiving from the hands of the pobtmim a well-worn, crumpled, and -oarcel) aeorphenbla letter, which bo™ the dnio " August 2+, 1867," and beariug the Coventry peetmark. It is scarcely to say that it proved to be the long hit letter, posted eleven yoars previously. Inquiries malted in elucidating the fact tu*t the letter had all tone _, .-.v beau cotieealed down a niche >.. ,i an, where hj j.hl ituulvevta.nl, slipped after being conveyed there. Tne destruction of tho van brought thi long missing letter to light.

Assistant-Paymaster Colin 0. Wilson, R.N., 1869, now serving as Secretary's olerk at Portsmouth, has been selected by Commodore Wilson to servo as his secretary on the Australian station.

We learn that mechanical power of the falls of Niagra is to be utilized. A company has been formed in America who propose to employ the falls to transmit to Buffalo—a distance of twenty-two miles —a constant supply of compressed air, to be used iu the large establishments there. Lord Dufferin said, in the course of his late farewell speech in Canada :—" Lord Lome has, as I said, a multitude of merits; but even spots will be discovered OH the sun ; nnd, unfortunately, an irreparable and, as I may call it, a congenial defect attaches to this appointment. Lord liorno is not an Irishman ! (Great laughter). It is not his fault—he did the best he could for himself. (Renewed laughter). He came as near tho right thing as possible by being born a Celtic Highlander. (Continuedlaughter) There is no doubt the world is best administered by Irishmen. (Hear, hear.) Things never were tetter with us, either at home or (thread, than when Lord Palmerston ruled Great Britain—(cheers),—Lord Mayo governed India—(cheers), —Lord Monck directed the destinies of Canada—(cheers), —and the Robinsons, tho Kennedys, the Laffnns, tho Callaghans, the Gores, the Hennessys, administered the affairs of our Australian colonies and West Indian possessions. (Applause.) Have not evon tho French at least made the same discovery in the person of Marshal MacMahon ? (Laughter and applause) But sfill we must be generous, and if. is rijriit Scotchmen should have a turn. (L?.ughter.) After all, Scotland only got her name because she was conquered by the Irish—(great laughter),—and if the real truth were known it is probable tin House of In>erary owes most of its glory to its Irish origin. (Applause.) May, 1 will go a step further; I would even let the poor Englishman take an occasional turn at the helm—(greater laughter)—it for no better reason than to mak'; him aware how much better we manr-gethe business (Renewed laughter.) But you have not come to that yet; and, though you have been a little spoiled by having been given three Irisu Governor-Generals in succession, I am sure that you will find your new Viceroy's personal and acquired qualitication will more than counterbalance his ethnolugical disadvantages."