GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 86, 24 May 1879, Page 3

GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

One of th* most popular preachers in LoncLa preaches in a Presbyterian ohnpel in Berkley-street, just off the Edee-vare Road His style is more like an Italian's than a Scot's, and he uses a. great amount of action. Sometimes he says * feood thing with a real dry Scotch lumber. For instance, in a racer.: sermon he said, " I wish to inform you that there are pickpockets "eseat. I h?.7e nol the smalW. objection to their being pre-sent,-and I hope the', will hear wost will do them good Oclyimajf aeV<Jlli°flthttio that the eye of ?rovil»nc»is upon them, and th;re »r» piuoemea b the gal iery " • A Nrnda City S'.dy -. f iiu-h social etaiidin£ pr^Et-.-U b siugutar case for the ec3«idar''-tici :f scientists Formany y°ir3 peat aha Las beeo afflicted <ith acut*; neuralgic pahi in various parts of the body, and, some time sicca, hoping to fird relief, resorted to the use of an electrical battery She used the aparatus for six months, but found no riiief. At the time nothing -ma noted of unusuil character as the result, end although save ral months hi 79 ii.ics it vae only when the recent "cold" -»ee,ther eum ■ rr.?ncei th*t any extraordinary symptoms followed, 'Jne night last week the lady bad occasion to enter a dark room and pick ujj a "voolen coat that was liying there, As she dH, she v?as both surprised and frightened to observe a bright li»ht surrounding the hand that held the gar:nent. At the same time the electno currents passed s,!cu? the arm, shookir.g hor quite severely. ".Vhe?. Lor husband was informed of the fact he discredited its reality, thinkiag there was more imagination than anything else in it. So the next evening, te ojnvice the incredulous better half, ah* turned the gas cut in the room ; where they sitting, and letting ' her hair dowr Icgan combing it. L remarkable display :f light -.748 the raiult The spirks in •.very direction, and the-: ~.3 a aLirp, cracks ing sound cs J.e teeth of the oomh passed betweer 'he hain. In laying her hands upon iron the lady does not observe the peculiarities referred to, but the instant sl«& tcu:hes «. T-:len cloth the ore bsginf '.: fly, °nd 'ha shocks Nevada, Trinscrip; incording to Figaro, -v'r.en a women has a new pdr 01 shoes tent home i»i •ctiona are ■Jlogethsr different from these - of a man She lever shove* her tees into them, '.id pulls end hauls until she is red. in toe face and all out of breathe and the:, gees stamping and kicking about like mad, but pulls them on part of the way carefully, twitches them cfl agei- f'o take a last look and see if she has got the right one, puto them on agaii, lroks at them dreamingly, aaya thov era just right, then taJßa another, feck, stops suddenly to smooth out a wrinkle, twists round and •orveys them Mdeways, exclaims. ' J Marcy I how lcoae they are I" looks at them again directly in the front, works her foot round no they won't hurt bar quite so much, takes them off locks at th* heel, and toe, the bottom, and th* insd* put* them 01. cgain, walks up and d:wn the room once or twioe, remarks to her better half that she won't have them at any price, turn* in every possible diroctior. and nearly dislocates ' her neck trying to aee how they look from behind, backs off, stops up again, take* SO or 40 farewell looks, says that they make her feet look awful big, and never will do in the world, pulls them off and on thro* or four time* more, asks her husband what ho think* about it, and than pays no attention to what ha aaya, goes through it all again, and finally aaya she'll have to make them do It* a very aimpl* matter indeed

k Chinese funeral recently held el Yonng attracted a large attendance of Europeans. The Celestials were so pleased at their presence that they presented cash person with Ss wrapped In a piece of paper.

Hongkong is to hive > itttue of the Earl of Beacouifald, the gift of a private gentleman. The Hongkong Daily Press thus refers to the gift:—"Mr. Belilios's promised gift to the colony of a statue of Lord Beaconsfleld, which we have before briefly announced, is as well-timed and appropriate a* it is munificent We understand that his Excellency has communicated with Mr Montague Corry, Lord Beaoonsfield's private secretary, with the object of inducing the Premier to assist in the choice of the statue Mr. Belilios is certainly entitled tc the warmest thanks of the community."

A correspondent, writing to a Scotch contemporary, says;~-" Mr. Coolie, the manager of the Monox Estate, Beauly, told me the other day that when clipping he discovered that e fall-grown and apparently sound black-faced ewe, four years old, had a born—resembling that of a short-born bull—crowing a few inches from the top of the tail, and a little to one side. The horn ia about five inches long, and six inches in circumference at the root, tapering towards the point, and quite hard.

A Correspondent, writing from Thursday Island, informs the Cooktown Courier that tlfe Teste" Islander mentioned by the Bev. 8. M'Farlaue as having been spared when Mr. Ingham sod party were massacred, through fear of reprisals from his countrymen, nad been on board the El lengowan, mission, schooner, and that the whole party were roasted and eaten the same night. Two men who deserted from the Menelaus are also reported to have met a similiar fate. The natives of New Guinea are unanimous in reiterating to Captain Duffiald each voyage, that some day every white resident and missionary will be killed by perconoerted signal throughout the islands.

j The German Government is apparently •bout to take possession of the Samoao islands, and the American representative reports that "American interest" are jeopardized, and there is not an American .man-of-war -vithin a thousand miles of the islands. This is doubtless true. We have only four men-of-war fit for any service from Cape Horn to Alaska, and the last beard of them they were pleasuring at the Isthmus of Darien. Her Majesty 'a corvette Osprey had to go to Sitka to protect American citizens, and our Samoan interests, which consist of a bay in one of the islands, are not likely to receive aoy immediate attention. Mr. Robeson wnom the Republicans of the Houso have just whitewashed, is responsible for 'he phantom condition oi our navy whhh makes, it impossible for Americans in foreign lar.idio receive that pro'.ecti!.n ','jioh ;s due them from our Governrueai.—Louisville Courier-Journal, Fab. t!8.

The great majority of those who attend ■=. Governor's levee must be excused Bays " .Atticus," in the Leader, if their want of aoqaiistance with the court Msiuaie of Her Majesty's drswing-rom leads thex into uiir-akes. It is lather »n unusual occurecoe to see atthe.levee c: a colonial Governor a gentleman in satin smalls, siik stockings, square cut cout with a plentiful supply of ruffles and & court aword. At the first reception heh by the Marquis of Nonnanby alearnen sergeant burst upo T . the astonished gazof Victoria iu full c-stume de rigeur. He paid th 9 penalty of his daring by being mistaken for the Governor's groom of the chambers, and being requested by a flurried crrival to hold his hat until he hj.. i made his bow The indignation of the sergeant as he revealed his identity with iramatic force, and the confusion of hia interlocutor, may be mere s«sily imagined than described The Union Shipwrights' men who caulk 'he de:ks and do work of a' similar description oi. board new iron vessels at Messrs. Palmer and Jo'j extensive iron ship-building yard, Jarrow, en the Tyne ha-e b«}i on strik-i siace Monday week Some men have been brought up from the Clyde to tokb their places. The Onion man struck against a fellow-work men n.-med Bunion It appears that Burdon hud previously wrought at the buildisg-yard of Messrs. Charles Mitchell and Co., at Low Walker, and was engaged caulking. When he came to Messrs Palmer's yard he was put on hj similar class of work. He managed to distance his fellow-workmen in the amount of caulking he did in » day at Mitchell's. As be would not shorten the length of his work per diem to suit the Jarrow system, the men took umbrage, held a meeting, sad passed a resolution thftt he be not allowed to work at the trade for three years. As the masters would not discharge the man Burdon, tuev turned out on strike.—Times Jen, 80."

K. dram-, of real life has just been enacted in the Rue Viutimille. Paria, where about eix months ago, M Filliette, a clerk in a money 'hungers office, came to live with his wife. M. Filliette, it appear*, wbff adored hia wife, was iealoua of a young man employed at the Perfecturo of Police, who waa a frequent viaitor at their apartment On 22nd December, M. Filliette went to the reatraunt, where they were in the habit of eating, and paid hia hill, after which he went up to hk apartment, and ait •* then neither ha not nia wife hare been teen alive. On breaking into the room a terrible aoene «m re reeled Madam Ftttlett* waa found, lightly clad, etretehed on the floor; bet hueband lay lifelte* by her aide, both bathed In their blood If Filliette etill held a rix-barrelled malm, all the barrala of which had keen diaoharged In another room the employee sf the Perfooture of Police wa* found on the

a bullet in his heart and another in his neek. It it supposed that the husband.a&d watched and surprised hi* wife and the young man, and shot them both, and that he then want down and paid his bill at the restaurant, after which he returned and shot himself . Mr. Filliette was thirty-five j years of age, and his wife twentyeight A most romantic and sensational law suit is shortly to come before the Paris tribunals. A young man, who lived in a small town in the wilds of the Russian steppes many years ago, gradually improved in his business until he at length engaged on 'ho Bourse as the great Mors Meyer G&rfunkei, the happy possessor of a fortune of several millions of francs He had married a Muscovite of rare beauty—Mdlle. Rosalie Loury—and he ended by adopting another Mdlle. Loury, whom his wife S,ve ''Ut to be her stater. In 1876, ocsieur Garf unkel died, leaving the bulk of his fortune to hi* wife and hie adopted daughter, but excepting therefrom the sum of cne million and a half franca, which was bequeathed to a Madame Kabinovitz, living in the town si Bod mis, in Russia Madame Rabin.-'vitx, however, now declares herself to l"i the only daughter of Monsier Garf unkel, by a widow named Taoule, whom he wedded in his poorer day ; when ho wa? known as Meyer and on the strength of it she claims, not merely the milfior and a half left her by Monsieur Qarf unkel, but also the money bequeathed to the i.ourys It appears that according to the ITench kw, ae well as the Russian, no oaa b tlbwed to adopt a ohild while he ht>s cne still living. Henoe Monsieur Garfunkel's act was utterly illegal, supposing M.dama Rabinovitz, or Rebeca, us the was sailed to be bis child —European Mail, January 17.

The papers received by the mail inform as that the Graces and Gilbert are still creating trouble in'crioketing circles by charging heavily for their services, and still affeeting the position cf The dispute has readied 1 even within the ranks of the Gloucester Couity Club Last season u match between the county of Gloucester and the ccunty of Surrey was played on the Ovul, cud the former sent as account to the latter for £lO2 lOe for the "expenses" of the Gloucester team. The sum was made up in a large degree of £2O for Dr. E. M. Grace, £ls for W. G. Grace £lO for Gilbert. *nd £8 for E. M Grace or more than halt the total " expenses " among these four, the other principal items being £lO for Midwinter, the country professioail, £6 for the umpire, and £5 for the scorer The Surrey Club objected to this de mand, and the committer! of the G-lou oester Club reduced the total to £BO, tks sums to be paid tc thi- Graces being sui : down.' There was thon what is vulgarly termed a " rumpus " in the ranis of the j Gloucester Club, the Graces thre&ter.i-g to resign. However, at a general nieeiof the olub, the "ring" su neededin carrying a vote agaiast tho committee ; but as we read, the rest of the rules -were carried, but the chi=i ; alterations recommended by the committee been rejected, some promir.ent- members, including Mr, A. J. Bush. Major Ver stume, Capt. Warren, and ,hs chairman tendered their resign itions, Mr W Q, Grace exp'essing his di-.ep regret, and observing that so far as he was concerned he meant in future only to ask for his personal expenses.

Among the British and Indian troops now quartered at Malta, there ere (the " Jewish World " says) some black Jews members of the community of the B'nai Israel, existing on the of Malabar. They claim to be decendnuts of '.he Jews sent by King Solomon to oo'.leot ivory and precious stones They differ very materially from other Jews '..a mf.ny of their religious ceremonies, a'd observe only the Jewish Sabbath and *re Passover