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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4998, 19 January 1885, Page 3

One of the greatest instances of silence was Cordelia, the daughter of King Lear, writes Sir Stafford Northcote. I suppose tbere is no character in any of Shake* ■peare's plays that produces a more wonderful effect on the imagination and feelings of those who read or see his plays performed with so few touches or strokes or so few words spoken as Cordelia. I was looking at a comment upon the play, and I see it is noticed in the first act Cordelia has only forty-tree lines assigned to her. She does not appear again until the fourth act, in the fourth scene of which she lias twenty-four lines, and in the gerenth thirty-seven. In the fifth act she has fire lines. Yet during the whole progress of the play we can nerer forget her ; and after its melancholy close she lingers about our recollections as if we had seen Borne being more beautiful and purer than a thing of earth, who had communicated with us by a higher medium than that of words. Her beauty consists largely in her silence. Doh't Die in thb Hottse.—" Bough on Bats" clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bed-bugs, flies, ante, inserts, moles, jackrabbits, gopbere.—Kempthorne, Prosser and Co., Afents, Auckland. Dojt't jaw back ; it only proves that you ire a» big a iw\ ajtbe.ulber follow—3e T»A.

A brliever in the Simian origin of man n-as listening to the remarks of a French la.ly who had just relumed from England. She related with great vivacity the different objects of interest she had seen, and luring one of her pauses to take breath 'ie ventured to say, " May I ask you *liat impressed you most during your stay 11 London f" ' Certainly,' she answered, without changing her expression. 'The solemnity of the monkeys at the Zoologcil Gardens on. the day of Darwin's funeral. 1" Their great kinsman bad .one away, and they refused to be coraf«r»pd.

Quite So.—" Mr Brook, how many points aas the compass, sir?" asked a member of rh* board. "W. 11, sir, the compass— allow me to reflect a moment, sir. Ah, yea, the compass, sir. has, yes. It depeeds entirely upon the size of the instrument, sir," said the middy.