Savory Morsels.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4359, 20 December 1882, Page 2

Savory Morsels.

la e&9trer to ah inquiry as to whether Sir Garnet Wolseley was a total abstainer Cardinal Manning writes as follows to |one of tbe secretaries of the Middles* borough Temperance Boeiety :—"lean, of my own knowledge, derived from Sir 1 Garnet Wolseley's lips, affirm that he is ; a strict' total abstainer. His'army in 'Egypt is the first, I believe, that ever , carried tea in their bottles to assault an entrenched camp. Tbe North Otago Times has the follow- , ing :—" A local Gilbert White kindly fur. nishes us with the following interesting , paragraph :—There is now. at .Waikauiu, ! Mr M'Af aster's residence, an instance of a 1 strange inversion of canine nature. A little Skye terrier, whose ; chief aversion has hitherto been cats, i» suckling two kittens. Snap was seen one day coming down a hill near the house with a kitten in her mouth. and depositing it alire in one of the sLalia of the stable. She then returned and fetched another kitten in a similar manner. No mother could tend her young more faithfully than this queer little terrier in fending the kit^ns. Is maternal instinct the cause of this strange action ? Or is it remorse? Most likely the latter, for Snap, it is thought, first, finished the mother and then adopted the orphans/ "■•■*" The Irish World says:— If, .hqwafa the advocates of Parliamentary agitation, still insist that it is a great end glorious ; thing for a handful of Irishmen to block I legislation for the British Empire, we j reply that they will not be able to indulge in their boast very locg. ; In a few weeks the Cloture will put an effectual check on obstruction when Irish members will be deprived of the means of blocking the business of Parliament. We honestly confess that we shall not be sorry for this, for Obstruction, besidps diverting the attention of the Irish nation from more serious business, w«s, at best, not- a very honorable way for kittling-toi 1.-eland's rights. Obstruction, as we said on another occasion, is 10.-vencd with the leaven of trickery, and is therefore re^ pulsive to the nobler instincts of human nature. Irishmen jealous of the honor of their country could never view Obstruction without experiencing a feeling of shame at the thought that Ireland's cause had to be fought in that way. A most painful feature in recent returns is the increase of suicide aaion-j boys, which has also been noticed in England of late. In the four years, 1876-80, 198 boys under 15 took their own lives, ,six of them being under Dine, and one only seTen years old. The number of girls who committed suicide in tha same parioi was but 40.

What odd names 'some mortals, are blessed with! A family in Michigan aotually named their first child Finis, sap. posing that it was their last, but they afterwards happened to have-a daughter and two sons, whonl they called AddehMW Appendix, add Supplement. A man in Pennsylvania called his son James A'so; and his third William Likewise.

A case has just come under our notice (Law Times) wherein a judgment debtor, against whom execution had been issued was enabled to escape a levy, by the help of the landlord of the hotel at which he was staying, who denied to the sheriff!* officer that the defendant was so staying at the hotel. Surely a person who aoia in this way should not be held perfectly harness by the law, seeing that he has directly aided the judgment debtor to defeat the ends of justice., In oar opinion a person so acting should be liable (on proof of his misrepresenting) to pay the extra cosls occasioned to the judgment creditors by his conduct. . .

A young lady who resides at Lake Preston, Dakota, has lately created quite a furore among the eligible young men of the neighborhood by an.adre.-tisement ia a local newspaper. She says:—" I mean business. If there is any young man in this country that has as much sand in him a3 a pound of plug tobacco. I want to hear from him. I hare a tree claim and homestead, am a good cook and not afraid to work, and willing to do my part. If any man with a like amount of land, and decent faoe and oaroase, wants a good wife, I can fill the bill." .