Odds and Ends.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42780, 19 September 1905, Page 4

Odds and Ends.

Bishop and the Dying Child;—The y Bishop of London' tells atottcMtig story' ! - .of how helonee comforted* dying child!. &-••• She was the daughter of a clergymanrand wasj laying iiK>hospital3 One day) she confided in > his* i bej?' ffearsiJ of .death. After a momeotV; paused : - duiingiwhich-the birftop i - he might be able to help neri'ho'aaked/; ‘♦ ■Would you be afraid if-'I were' to*, carrv you into -the next; room ? ” -♦* > s hesaid* “ dying is :just as though/you ? - were being carried into another room', :: but l by someone : far f ktrbpgek’ and :t kinder than I am.” is'Wheh/ saw, the child she was lying dead, with a smile upon her face; ; t'J f'! \>**> -U o Hanging a Chamv * hers, the extraordinary story of a sheep'thxefi hanged at‘>Peebles,' : anl| iii buried 'at s cross roads with a stake- thrusts through, his body, y The remhlkable n n ,featurpief the case Was that the thiefs;« (1 og was tried fo*aiding andf abetting ,'£s in thecrimo, convicted, hanged, and ':; buried along . with Hs maßter4.ot.lt was proved.at the trialithat the mailt when: out with the used to-indicate* • ; o it some particular: flock ;of s*ieep *he - ? • wanted,- After reaching horae,nthe-; flog retained to the place,;rdundSd the sheep, and by devious i ways and *•' only afterj "d£jirk, drove.! themhome. '• There, they: were kept for: someS days,- a and their ownere’-marka destroyed or >k “ faked;” . They, were?(thenungraded with others legitimately, d riven to theEngli ah: markets. ,UHr:; / •The -World'sHighest iLiffc—khio a !highest -lift-fin the world has been v opened on the BurgenstOck, a mountain ,:' near the Lake:-of -Lucerne, where.tourists are raised 50.0 feet to the top of a-vertical-rock.! l< iiiu'-h •v; .1 In Canton, China. ; they-uname! the-i----streets after theirirtuoa, as they are / named in this country 'after persons, .>: Thus there is a street; calledn Unble« i £ mished Kecitude, * and Pure Pearl / Street, a treet of Benevolence and an-'*-other of Love." ' - ; ' In Melbourne no 1 Sunday papers 1 are published, no hotels are allowed to open their bar doors/froih midnight V on Saturday; until, Monday morning,'// \ und> anyone, driving ; past a place, pf /, Worship at a faster pace than ai walk while'service is on is' liable toj bo . stopped and summoned by the p6lioe«* tnanondufcy, . At a whist party, in which Dicken V . was a participant, a lady, seated near,-, him, was aroused from a; slight hap by a player who struck tbe table With 1 emphasis as he took 1 the last trick, with the king of trumps/ Dickens, turning to her said“ My; dear ' madam, you ; look.awfully like one risen ou the day of ‘‘Because you were awakened by the- j 8 iund of the last trump I” ... . I