GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 114, 6 December 1879, Page 3

GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Tho proud boast of Englishmen that tho sun nover sots on tho British Euipiro is, it appoars, (Hjuiilly applicable to tho United .States, Instead of being the western limit of the Union, San Pranoisis only aliout midway betwoen tho furthest Aloutian Isle, acquired by tho purchase of Alaska, and Eastorpoi t, Mniuo. United States territory extends through 197 degs. of longitude, or 17 degß. more than half way round the globe. Tho Rooky Mountaiu Presbytoriau, in commenting on this fact, says : —"When tho sun is giving its good-night kiss to our westermost isle, on tho confines of Bellring's Sea, it is already flooding tho fields and forests of Maiuo with its morning light, and in the oantorn part of that State is more than an hour high. At tho vory liniment when tho Aleutian fisherman, warned by tho approaching shades of night, Is pulling his conoo towards the thorO, the wood-onopper of Maine is beginning to make tbo iorost echo with 1 the it in ing mucic of hi? axe."

•J. . Tho idea of being poisoned by cold - ■ pie seems ridiculous to be entertained ' for one moment, yet a careful analysis of the body of William Gorbett, saloon t steward on board the troop ship .Tamar, , shows the deceased to have 'died of j ! oholeric diarrhcea, induced by mephitic a poisoning, possibly caused, the medical i 3 men assert, "by a pigeon pie." Pois--3 nous changes, it appears take iu cold s pies, and especially in those made with gamo, by simply keeping or lay- . ing by for some timo. This fact cannot . bo to widely known. 9 The ruins of the Tuilerios are not 0 only an eyesore to the residents of Paris, but a most painful spectacle to every 9 visitor to the gay metropolis; and we ! are glad that tho Government has at j last decided that the} - shall at once • be demolished, and the site be covered > with trees and lawns. This will greatly ' add to the appearance of that part of tho city, and from tho Louvre there r will now be an uninterrupted view . down the Champs Elysees to tho Arc t de Triumphe. The Baroness Burdott-Coutts cmbarked on July 11 on board the yacht i Wali-us, and sailed next day in the ~ first place for Amsterdam, and i from thence to Cherbourg, returning 1 to London. Her lady ship will then • sail direct to tho Mediterranean, ' ami the tour is to last about three month-;. Tho Baroness is accompanied \ by Admiral and Mi's. Gordon «,■,! Mr. . Irving. The ship, which is of an extra- ' ordinary size for a yachting cruise, is ; commanduc/ by Captain Tint, and her : officers are drawn from those employed 1 by (he Cunard Company. A good story is told of Professor Blackio. Ou the door of tho Greek i class-room in Edinburgh University • Professor Blackie had occasion a few weeks ago to put up this notice: — ■ " Professor Blackie regrets he is unable to-day to meet his classes." A waggish student, spying this, scraped out the initial letter of the last word of the sentence, and made it appear as if the Proi lessor Blackie was i egretf ul at his inability ■ to meet those fair specimens of humanity familiarly known outside the college quadrangle as the "lasses." But who can joke with Blackio ? Tho keen-eyed ' old man, noticing the prank that hail I been played on him, quietly erased an- , other letter, and left the following to be ' read by whom it might concern:—" Professor Blackie regrets he is unable to-day to meet his asses !" i The London Correspondent of the | New York Tribune tells a story never . before printed, which shows the personal j familiarity with the financial and poli- > tical condition of Europe necessarily in . possession of the Rothschilds. Many ; years ago, when Lord Bcaconsfield was : still Mr. Disraeli, he approached tho late , >Sii- Anthony de Rothschild with a preliminary proposal for a loan to a Euroi pean State. The circumstances were . such, said Mr. Disraeli, that he could not i communicate, even confidently, the name > of the Power for which he was acting, ( but he desired to know whether tho idea . of a loan, on exceptionally advantageous t terms, would be entertained. Sir Ani thony replied : —" I will tell you if you . will answer three questions—viz., the r amouut of present indebtedness of tho , Power 3'ou represent, tho form in which i it is held, and the rate of interest." Tho t three answers were given, whereupon i Sir Anthony at onco said : " The loau ■ you. want is for the Two Sicilies ; wo can , havo nothing to do with it." In less i than three months Garibaldi had entered . Naples. Prince Henry XX., of Rouss' marriage 1 with Miss Clotilde Goisset, tho popular i circus-rider.j is still a fertile themo of • popular gossip in Berlin. Tho nowly ; wedded Princess Rouss, whose real name of Rous was relinquished by her for that ' of her mother on her entrance ou the I equostrian career, will as is publicly as- • serted, soon havo the satisfaction of see--1 ing her sister Emily also adorned with a I princely coronet. A Prince H , des- ■ cendaut of a Rhenish family, owing largo 1 estates also in Silesia, is said to covet the 1 honor of winning the hand and heart of ' tho fair cirous perf jrmor, who has capti--1 vated him by her daring feats. The I two Princes may console themselves in their mesaliance with tho precedent given : somo twenty years ago by a French Marquis, who married an aunt of tho two Misses Goisset. so much spoken of at picsent. ) Intelligence has just boon reoeived ! from StafFoi-d county, Kansas, of the sad 3 fate that recently befell Henry Frock • Jr., and his four oldest sons. The five ■ started on a gunning expedition one . morning, leaving tho wifo and younger . children alone, promising to return in i the evening. That evening and several j others came without tho hunter*, Tho j country is but sparsely settled,and some - dayß elapsed bctoro a search -party was i scoured. In a dcuso forost wore found r the remains of the fivo men, about tho - wolves and wild oats that dovoured them. s Tho bodies were horribly mutilated, and r it wan found that tho lust cartridge had a been oxhaustod in the light, Mrs. Frnok, r iu giving those shocking particulars, , asked her father, Ohnrlos Nowhard, rosidf ing near llokondaqua, this county, to o | send her money to enable her to return k home. The family was povcrty-slrickeu i | iu rich Kimiai;.—Allotituw :\ Tn , CJfcrouif pi*. '

A Strange Caso of Breach of Privilege has just been investigated by a Parliamentary Committee. A Scleot Committe was recently appointed to inquire into what is known as the Tower High Lerel Bridge Bill, and Mr. C. E. Grissel told the opponents of tho Bill that he could do what ho ohose with tho Committee, and that for a consideration of 20,0001. ho would influence their decision. Llis solicitor, Mr. Ward helped him to make good this discreditable offer, and the result was that after a careful inquiry into tho whole matter both Mr Grissell and Mr. Ward wcro found guilty of u breach of privilege, and summoned to the bar of the House of Commons. Mr. Charles E. Grissoll, the principal delinquent, immediately after the decision of tho House of Commons became kuown, packed up his portmanteau and took ticket for Bolougne, where ho has since beeu disporting himself on the pior and the sands in summer attire. On the dayhe was ordered to appear at the bar of tho House for jugment, he sent a telegram to say that he was too ill to travel. The Sergcant-at-Arms was at once requested to seud a messenger to Boulogne to bring his prisoner back. On' the messenger's arrival Mi. GrisseU treated him with great kindness, and the matter with considerable coolness. Accosting him on Boulogne Pier, the messenger told him that ho held a warrant from the Speaker. " You don't suppose," said Mr. GrisseU in reply, "that I am such a fool as toreturn to London in obedience to your warrant. Come," he continued, " the best way will be for you to come and dine with mo at my hotel." The two thereupon paired off and had a sumptuous repast, after which the messenger returned to town without his prisoner, and r 'luted his experiences to tho Sergeant-' at-Arms. Meanwhile, Mr. John Sandelands "Ward, who is an unmarried man, has bbon confined in the clock tower of Westminister, paying to the Sergeant-at-Arms the sum of £l, Gs. Sd. per day for the privilege of being there. Since his imprisonment he has complained that his health has been greatly impaired by tho striking of ,: Big Ben," and ho having obtaiued two medical certificates to this effect, he was liberated by order of the House on July 30. He has been allowed to have what refreshment he pleased from the .kitchen of the House, and to receive one friend at a time. It is said that he has carried on his practice as a Solicitor during his imprisonment. As the Speaker's warrant expires jwith the session, Mr. GrisseU may return on the breaking up of Parliament without fear of molestation. He may be however, further proceeded against when the House reassembles in February. Sir Thomas White, one of the magistrates of the City of London, has just learnt city merchants and other " swells," many of whom seem to look upon the law classes as so much dirt, a very wholesome lesson. The other day a young Irish girl, a flower hawker, entered tho Clarendon wine bar iu Old Change and nll'ered her button-hole bouquets for sale. Mr. James Henry Luther, a silk merchant, carrying ou business in Cheapside, was among those at tho bar partaking of refreshment. Being asked to buy a flower he took ono and placed it in the button-hole of his coat, at the same timo refusing to pay the girl. The flower hawker waited patiently for the money, and finding her still by the side of him, this man, or rather brute, used foul language to her, caught her by the hair, dragged her to the ground, and then kicked her basket of flowers into the street. The girl thereupon immediately called a constable, and gave the fellow into custody. At the police court ho wanted to make out that the flower ho was wearing had como from Sydenham, but the magistrate, comparing it with those in the basket, found it was exactly similar, and sentenced the prisoner to 21 days' imprisonment with hard labour, without tho option of a fine, at the sumo time characterising tho assault as a most cowardly ono. Tho basket of flowers was valued at 45., and Sir Thomas very properly ordered the girl to be paid $5 out of the funds of the Court, to compensate her loss. The man who was hemmed in by a crowd has been troubled with a stich in his side ever since. Sixteen years ago (says an Amorican paper) Tom Jones went to Kansas city with a cent, and the other day ho signed a cheque for 10,000 dollnrs. He signed with another man's name, however.