Clippings.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 105, 21 September 1901, Page 3

Clippings.

The French Army has 29,000 officers, the Italian 14,000, and the Spanish 23,000. Tnete are on the Stviss iakea 65 steamers, o£ which the largest can carry 1200 passengers. There are only 8500 people altogether in the Klondjke. Less than 2000 of them are English. The guinea pig holds the record for quick growth among animals. It is foil-grown at six weeks. Mr Carnegie is giving £3OOO for a frde library for Annan, Dumfriesshire, provided others help too. The British sovereign is eleven-twelfths fine gold ; the shilling contains 3? in 40 parts of pure silver. Twelve per cent, of the British Army are sft lOin or oV6r in height. The Lallan has only 4 per cent. A Sure Result.—“ Say, old chap, Coffttp and I have a bjt we wish you’d decide for us.” “No. thanke.” “No! Why not ?. We're both friends of yours.”

“ Exactly. Sa What's the use of making an enemy of one of you ?” Couldn’t Make ’Un Speak.—lnfuriated 0.0.10 th V.B. Mudfordshiro Faaiiiera (who has otieted bugler to sound the “Cease fire” several times without effect); “Don’t you hear me, fellow? Why the devil don’t you sound the “ Cease fire” When t tell you His Bugler: “If ye plaza, ear, a’ve biowed a liquid o’ baoca down spout t’ould trumput awn I can’t make un speak I” Phil May has told an interviewewer this story i “ The other day,*,.said the artist, “ I got two hew girls to whom “sitting” was a strange and.fearful experience. As usual, they giggled the whole time I was sketching them, but I only kept them an hour, and then dismissed them with five shillings apiece. The news of this evidently got about, for the nett morning & fearful g-oggy old woman knocked at My door yrith the inquiry, “Do you Want any models t” . A good story is told about a WellkndWh attendant at Parliament Buildings (says the . Wellington Posi). It was an “ off day, 1 ' and he waa showing a party of visitors -from Home over the House. When they came to Ibdohamber in which on* representatives sit, a member of the party , remarked to the attafidabt* “ I hear thUf- this room is noted for Its aeoustio, properties.” “ Yes? " was the reply, “ i never smell ’ any thing.” Aud the silence that ensued aeuld almost he ftlt.