GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 77, 22 March 1879, Page 3

GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

A young Ketor made b's debut, lint, was hissed, and-.he manager, fieutlv but firmly, lifted nini out 'nto the peaceful summer ntghi. undei quiet stars, through the medium i■ • fns boot ?/ifting his hand angrily ti •.■!»•• the young man swore tin", to aveuge .n'' nsult be wonhl take the fives of ti.i hiiDilred people. The manager had hibo arrested and brought bi'fore tlie mogist Tite. " What meant you by that threat sirrah 9" "I meant tbU- and when I ineau a lh}pg I mean it that, having (khjii rejected by the stage. I should study medicine." The magistrate shuddered and discharged him. This is the way he looked to a World reportei : The Rev Joscphus Flavius Cook is a man of,massive vital buiid in every :iait. One would call li.m a man of fine presence—huge, well formed,acrhe, with self iv.liance imu self-assertion in even motion. His head is of sufficient size to geryeadozeuordinary intelligences, crowned above with thick, straight brown hair, and fringed below with a dense bush of brown wishers. The t a ee and forebead are strongly marked, and the blue eyes are restless ind fiery His voice, as it begins, is like a storm restrained a:id as he proceeds it rises at times t" almost a scream, and at times sinks to a bass that sets the edifice in a rumble. Recently, at, a social gathering Bishop Harris was invited to sing. He declined, hut told the following incident a.s illustrative of his talent in that fine I hiring Ins journey through Palestine, ne evening. after ne and Mr Spencei who occu pied the tentftifcli him. bad goof to bed, the Bishop began humming a tuueofthe olden time, called New Durham. Mr. Spencer joined in, and the n-. began -' iiging averse of one of "Hi "!U ■ :i'" limiius Before the verse was finished :i donkey just outside the tent b/ayed -is only ••■ donkey in the hast can bray. While tbo hills of Judea were se.ioiug back the echoes of this most, extraordinary and untimely pei [ormance of the lonkey. the Arab dragoman put his head •isi.le the lent, and, apologising f"r his donkey, said, " Ha, you sing one tnw ; i" think In know!"

According to statistics published by Herr Woerl of AVurzburg. the muni"" of journals mail publications .published iu Biurope amounts to 13,060 of which S'3-t represent Roman Catholicism By means of ; ne phonograph a man could leave bis will :n such a manner as to he beyond controversy. The songs if great musicians could bo repeated Long after tin- death of the singer In a Melbourne monster racing iwee( lately, none of the consecutive numbers between 780 and 100)1 drew a horse. Ihis proves the eccentricity of the waj i.'i which chances often come out. I'lie Utioo Herald is about to aid the spelling reformers by dropping the silent letters. The following are a fen specimens: "Litl, artioj, wer, ar, th«r, olfabet. lolograf, hav, wil, poop], altho, nice F fals." Th- Ijondon Graphic is said to have paid KM) per cent on its capital of £2O 000 for the year ending with June About six years ago it was a hank rapt Mr Yung-Wing, the (,'hincsc Commissioner of Education in tho I'nitod Sutes has translated Dr. Theophilus ParsooVs"'Law of Contracts " into Chi Among the curiosities of literature, is the Journal de Avengles, published at Geneva Not only i-s it intended for the blind but its editor, compositors, and prcssuieo are all blind.,