A DOCTOR'S SUBSTITUTE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1330, 17 March 1883, Page 3

A DOCTOR'S SUBSTITUTE.

He was a young man with a wild, disordered look. He rushed into the office of a prominent city physician yesterday, placed a small cup on the desk, took off his coat and bared his right arm and whispered.: ' Stick me!' *Dq you; want to be bledl 1 ' I do! Open a vein and lot me catch the blood in tbiß cup!' <Too full in the head r •Alas! too full in the heart! My affianced will not believe me when I tell her that I love her better than my life. I will write my love 1 I will write it in my own blood! Proceed!' 'ls that all you want 1' ' All! Is not that sufficient?' ' Young man, you are a dodo! Put on your coat! I keep a red ink here for the very purpose you desire, and I will sell you a half gill for a quarter!' And the young man was not stuck. The Swiss Canton of St. Gallcn has, •by a majority of 100 against 47 in its great assembly, resolved to introduce capital punishment. The large number of murders committed recently has Ul to a demand that this step should be taken.

—A London dispatch says: There are no members of the human race whose condition is so abjectly wretpjied &3 tb,atqf'|he starving people in the west of Ireland, T-Jt has recently oarae to light that the solicitor of the London School Board has in the last ten years received £11.0,000 in salary and commissions in the purchase of sites for schools, —A venerable centenarian, named Hob Bey, 120 years old, and still possessing all his faculties, recently visited Constantinople. He is stated to be descended from one of the principal families of the mountain tribe of the Sh&beshish.

—A gentleman travelling in a sleeping car from Nice to Marseilles in December was strangled at St Thomas, Hispocket was emptiedby tho murderer, tgot away. His watch aud a ible diamond ring also disappeared The Right Hon, W.E. Gladstone, lier of England, is said to own a wece of land a' Niagara Palls', between Table Rock and the Prospect House, which he refuses to sell at any price. —Professor Fleming Jenkin has patented an electrical system of transporting goods, which' he calls '.'Telpherage." It resembles a wirerope system in so for that the vehicles are supported on strained conductors, which suspend the load and at the same time convey the electric enerjgy. There oan hP no, opinions, t\s if one train gets' 0$ to, a'section ocavjpied by another, it is deprived of motive power,' and brought to a standstill vuitil the section clear. The cotton mill workers, in Britain average £SO per year, while in American factories the day only amounts. to £49. While the price, of .the necessaries of life has lately increased to an enormous amount, wigeß in the State have been stationery or declining. It required £2B in July topurchase the same amount of food and clothing that

). £2l would buy in 1879. The erase , ; ■ quence has been dissatisfaction' 1 and ; : long continued strikes, resulting' only in failure and increased oakery [ a#J "■'' ■'■'■ :: ' 1 ■'.'■'■''