News by the Mail.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 53, 7 March 1904, Page 3

News by the Mail.

THE RIGHT OF A WIFE, AND. HER HUSBAND'S BEAUI"IFl'L MOUSTACHE. ; TIRESLAU. SILESIA, Jan. 25. The most magnificent moustache in the city grows on the upper lip oi Herr Rottgsr. At a convivial gathering the other evening he offered to cut it off if the company would give £lO to a charity in which he .was interested. The offer was taken up, the contract was put in writing, and he was to appear next 'evening, "all shaven and shorn,"- and get the money. But he did not turn up. Instead, the postman took to the company a letter from Frau Rottger, who wrote that when she married her husband she also married his moustache, adding " His moustache is my moustache. He has no right to dispose of it, and the contract on paper is null and void. Should you dispute this the law courts are open to you." The "party of the second part" in Ah* wife's challenge has taken legal steps to compel Rottger to live up to his bargain. But if they win, they will probably not insist, only wishing to have their rights in the matter defined. A MODEST POPE. &E3 MOTHER'S LITTLE WATCH. ROME, Jan. 25. Members of the Papal court have been shocked to note that when the Pope desired to consult his timepiece lie drew forth a little nickel , watch attached to a black silk cord. j Desiring to replace this unornamental adjunct to the Pope's attire, they hastened to buy a magniticant gold 1, .watch, which was proffered with mach ceremony. But tho Pope, to their deep amazement, gently waved •side the splendid gift, and said with an accent which there was no nistaklng : "As long as I live I shall wear my nickel watch. It is a souvenir from my mother." MARY ANDERSON'. ' !*>■• -"TUB POOR CALLED ME." LONDON, Jan. 23. Mary Anderson, as Mrs de Navarro it still known to the public, paid an "Angel's visit" to London this week, tto sing and recite in the tPalaca at the East End, for the benW tefit of the Catholic poor. .On being askod whether or not she would consider any proposition tc ' leturn to the stage, the famous act cess said emphatically : " Not I I Not I ! The poor hcvi called me, and to their cry I liayi answered. But the stage again—Xc never •" The temptation must be groal t<j. forswear that 'Never,' " the err respondent suggested. " No/' responded the act rets, "oi **he contrary it would be a grea •trial to ma to return to my forme •profession. I have mailt* my choict jmd it is finnl." lite Navarro looked more beautilu than when she left the stage. He ' expression now has a repose whic , marvellously heightens the attrai tion of her classical loveliness < face and form. She was dresstid a pink silk costume at the People Palace. All the eves of the in taentte multitude were turned upo this charming woman, who had rex lutely stepped out from the moi attractive of all the professions ii t matrimony jvhen ai the zenith of h , gh e gang '''file Throstle" In a lite-ao-soprano voice of much sweetnes: and full of tender feeling. She to lowed that with "The Land of tl Almond Blossom," which provoked tempest of applause. She recited the sleep walking scei from Macbeth with a tragic loi: .Which no actress on the ''-"B, 11 ® stage to-day could approach, was held spell-bound, or at the close again warmly applaudei Father Bernard YauglUM it v who induced her to leave her Worce tershire home to assist this charit> The following night she appeali again, and a large sum of n\on< .was obtained. A proposition has been made tin She should make a limited numbei oi appearances in the United State 'but it Is not believed that anythii

can induce her to abandon her reso- *- lution to remain in private life.

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