The Man of Books.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 218, 3 September 1887, Page 4

The Man of Books.

I There was a man of knowledge deep, commanding sweep, who knew a heap), a man who studied day and night, and hardly spared the time to sleep. This man so staid he knew a maid, demure, afraid and half dismayed; shy as the nymph of ancient myths sequestered in some sylvan shade. This maid so rare with golden hair and modest air, so debonair, she charmed this man of learned lore and caught him in her witching snare. This man of thought and learned lore, his hair he tore, and o'er and o'er, he loudly swore that he would cherish her for aye and he would love her ever more. Now they are wed, in his library nooks his knees he crooks, and sees his wife so seldom now that he's forgotten how she looks. The wife to whom the man before so loudly swore he would adore for evermore, lives with her mother, and declares her husband is a regular bore.

Yesterday's Thames "Advertiser" has the following: — No reply having been received to the cablegram sent some days ago by the directors of the Moanataiari G.M. Co. refusing the £20,000 offered for the mine by the English syndicate, they (the directors) cabled Home again on Monday. The purport of the latter cablegram has not yet transpired, but it is understood that they are now quite willing to take the offer made of £20,000. The reply is anxiously looked for, and it is to be hoped that the original offer is not now off. The arrival in San Francisco is announced of a little girl who travelled unattended the entire distance from Germany, her native land. Her name is Cresencia Schwartz, and her age is eleven years. Without understanding one word of English, this little Teutonic maiden traversed the broad Atlantic Ocean, and crossed the American continent without a companion, trusting solely for her safety during her 7,000 miles journey to the kindness of tho people whom she chanced to meet. Her widowed mother in Germany was too poor to support her, it is said ; and an uncle in San Francisco having offered to adopt her, the mother prepared 1 a little baggage, gave a kiss of Farewell, and despatched her daughter on the long journey.