Notes and Comments.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 163, 8 February 1902, Page 3

Notes and Comments.

Mr R. A. Pinkerton, the famous detective, is of opinion the Unit the shooting of AN uboiiist President McKinley "pkohokm. could have been prevented. He holds { ! ia t if the President had been surrounded by quick-witted men, who keptacareful eyeon the hands of everyone who approached, the assassin could not have caiiied out his plan. He is of opinion that the anarchists should be given an opportunity of putting their theories into practice, and in this way they would be converted from their beliefs. He says: “ I would advocate the ■establishment of an anarchist colony, a place where every person who wants anarchy can Jme it. Let the American Government set aside one of the islands of the Philippines, equip 3t thoroughly with appliances for .tilling the soil, erect comfortable .houses, and provide other necessary conveniences, oven to the extent of expensive comforts ; ■then to this place let us send 'everybody' who wants anarchy. But them all on one island ■and let them work it out _ for them solves. Have no restrictions ;at all ; let them govern them■felves or refrain from governing ..-it all just as it suited them. Reave them severely alone on the island, taking care only that they remain there by establishing :a system of patrol boats around it. I know of no other single •experiment that would beat once •so healthful for America as such a gaitlcruant, and so instructive to tiio anarchists themselves, and :) ho world at large, as to how their opportunities for individualism •and freedom from government restraint would work out.” ■

Small children tue famous for tho

delightfully humuscoxscious ore us things they HUMouit. Bay, things that are very much out of •place and very awkward. Such, for instance, must have been the following : When Mrs b has called noon Mrs A, and the hostess received tho visitor with the most gushing enthusiasm, it ia just a little embarrassing for Tommy Ato sidle up to Mrs H and ask, “ Do you live in a nice room, Mrs B ?’’ Mrs Bof course replies : “ What a curious question ? Why do you ask ?” To which Tommy answers : “ Oh ! as you were coming up the garden Mamma said your room was better than your company.” Some children know a thing or ■two about birds, a?, the following -story shows ; —A Sunday school teacher was rehearsing the story •of Jacob’s dream in which ho saw a ladder going up to FLoiveu with the angels upon it. “ Please sir, asked ono of the boyo, “ why did tho angels go up ami down the 'ladder when they had wings? This nonplussed the teacher, who took a strategic movement by saying. “Ah, yea. Why? Perhaps one of tho boya can answer that.” And one of the boys did. -• Please sir,” ho said, “ because they was a-molting.” The lutie girl who replied to a fierce demand as tc why .she was late for school, “ Please, sir, Sarah Jones borrowed hour comb and Pli ad to wait till she brung it back to get my ’air done,” said a very funny thing. Tho story of a boy who, under similar circumstances, said that “ Bill bad the soap and I couldn't wash myself,” is also good. Another excuse by a boy for being lata was ; “ Please, teacher, I had to wait till mother fied up my lunch.” “ But that would not keep you half an hour late,” replied the teacher, “Oh, yes, sir, it did, ’cos there was a dove story in the paper.” Children are very good at definitions. Asked to define v>hat a zebra was, ■one boy declared it to be “a donkey with a football jersey on.” -Another had it chat “ tho zabra is like a horse only striped, and is chiefly used to illustrate the letter Z.” A bud-ling genius defined “ faith ” as that which enables us to believe what is not true. •“Why is it,” asked an inspector, that the sun never seta on the English possessions ?” “ Be- ; cause,” replied the ingenious one, “ English possessions are in the North South and East, and the sun always sots in the West.” The child who said that “ antidote ’’ meant “ silly ant,” probably thought that the word was a short form of saying “an aut in its dotage.” To be told that “ our feathered friends ” are “ angels ” ; is rather much. The following definition of a lie would seem to be made by a youngster of experience An abomination in the eyes of the Lord, but a very present help in the time of trouble.” Our readers may be pleased to hear that “ a vacuum is nothing shut up in a box. They have a way of pumping out the air. When all the air and everything else is shut out, naturally they are able to shut in nothing, where tho air was before.”