A BARBERS' CONGRESS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1258, 19 December 1882, Page 2

A BARBERS' CONGRESS.

The barbers of Berlin in imitation of all other orders and "degrees' of men nowadays, haye been holding a congress, aud have passed some important resolutions. They havo resolved that shaving shall always commence (as in nature—i.e. when a man shaves him- ■' ; : '' self) on the left cheek and end with the right, They have also decided, and;,,, very properly, that any member who touches a customer's nose, under pretence of steadying himself shall be' I '"' expelled from the Association.,, A-j p. great debate ensued as to whether con-. U; , { versation was to be provided by the trade or not., "No binding resolution was passed, but the advocates of silence were in the majority." On the other hand it was asserted with much plausi : . bility that if customers were not to learn the news from their barbers or ■ " to' bo instructed. in' .the currtot /tendencies of political thought".they might i 1;A just themselves at home. We U!B all for' silencd ( in this matter, for there can'be lew positions more idisagreeble than beings.shaved,by a .barber of opinions, hostile to' one's' own, and, being, unable from. the. circumstances of the case to contradict him.

r .-..Engluii.' derived, ..last year . 1 frotn'the duty/on caraiages.'. 'L ; . .!!) •' London ''Truth" saysAt the recent i examination ! for clerkships in the Post I' Officii tliere 1 were 1500 female candidates." The sale of Bibles and other, Christian books in Japan is increasing rapidly. , In Berlin, with a population of 1,145,000 1 the Glnirch attendance is less than 85,000. Complaint is made in California that, while the judges of the superior oour'.Bget salaries of £BOO, tUe official shorthand writers frequently make J!2000 a year. . A Parliamentary return shows, that the National Debt on March 31,' 1882, ' amounted' to £763,045,940, as ■ against.;; £768,763,692 on the' corresponding dato of 1881, and £774,011,235 in 1880.. . r The latest addition to the crowned heads of the world is Duke IX, King of Duke Town, tvhose coronation took pldk. at Old Calabar on August 8, the ceremony; being performed by Mr Hewitt, the Eng.; lisb Cogbul on the West Afrioan coaßt. When the steam pipes were laid under the streets of New York they had to' be put down in close proxomity to the water pipes, and it is alleged that they soiheat' ' the water conveyed through the latter, as < to.present consumers with drinking-water almost hot enough to " draw .tea." . The Dublin papers state that a letter was'written several years ago by Sir . Garnet Wolsely, in whioh he claims that . Colonel Wolseley, who gained the battle of Newtown Butler, was the uncle of his great grandfather. According to Macau|ay Oolohel Wolsely was the staunch Protestant'who caused the Mayor of Scar--borough to be'well tossed in a blanket for; making a speech in favor of King James. ' Of all the industrial , arts of the early, ? days of Alexandria, one only still survived —that of 6ne embroidery.; In the tinj t of the Caliphs this had reached an admirable pitoh of perfection. In those days 'the European princes prooured their most . : costly dress-BtufEs from thei East; and »« even the ooronation mantle of theHoqianGerman Emporors. ; preserved in* the ! Treasury of Vienna, was worked by Arab lhaads.