OUR ILLUSTRATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1567, 24 December 1883, Page 1 (Supplement)

OUR ILLUSTRATION.

THE HORSE IN MOTION. ; This week we present our readers with fa'c simile drawings of horses, in motion, repro-

duced from Mr. • Mnybridge'S instantaneous photographs. The old adage " that things are seldom what they seem," lias nevet met with a stronger verification. By .w'ay'of contrast! our artist has drawn a capital' likeness of Navigator, the' winner, of 'tho late y.R.C.Derby, galloping in the conventional position as pourtrayed by aniinal painters ' from; time immemorial,.

.He wns a member of the Mtiino, Legislature, and had been sweet jowards an Augusta "girl "all winter and had taken, her to attend' tho sessions until she was well posted in tho rules', " On the last day of the session, as they came near the pea--nut stand near the door,' he said to her: "May I offer you my handful of peanuts?" j She re-, sponded promptly: . "I move to amend :by. omitting,all after the wordhand,'." . He blusliingly acceptcd.the amendment and tlien adopted it unanimously,. It was a hand-some wedding .that followed, , ' ', : i • ,

have just recently seen a maohine which ap« pears to "fulfil'these condition's admirably, and the gas is positively superior in Illuminating power 'to any coal gas that is' s'een in towns, The machine is made in Melbourne by the proprietors of the patent, and concerning it the Federal Australian of 9th November writes as follows:—. , The problem of cheap light is now'engaging the attention of practical and scientific men all over the world. One can hardly take up a newspaper which' does not contain an account of'some new invention for illuminating purposes.' In .connection with this 'subject we Were greatly interested at the recent Melbourne Agricultural" Show by a new' gas machine (Martin's patent), which was Unquestionably one of the greatest novelties on the ground. 'lt was shown'for three'days in a small tent, about'six feet square, with twelve lightsconstantly burning, giving a brilliant ,illu-

mination.- ' The principle on which it 1 is worked is ; extremely aimple, : ' and - may _be ' popularly described as follows The motive power is a weight which works' two p&irs of blowers, 1 • 'These force air down into the generator; which contains 'and 'the air with' the vajiof.of'thegasbliiib and form's the' 1 gas, 11 When 'the holdep is full of gas,,the machine immediately stops, and when it is exhausted the'blowers set' to work again, and make' the gas with the most perfeot self-action aa long, as the lights are kept burning.-The little machine (32 .inches long, by 18 inches'' broad) attracted large' crowds of people, who evinced the greatest' interest 'in its': operations! and we cannot but ' think that it is destined to- eEFect 'a' revolution' in ! the' mode of .lighting' private houses and other isolated buildings in country districts. To prave'its perfect safety,'the machine.was repeatedly' fired, when: it was', seen 1 to be free : from any,risk of explosion,

of the'gfe-making wai'Stiited : to ,; be'Bs; :j per' •'th'ilusiiiid^eot^' 'v' "- 1 I" ''The 1 machine' is 'bver ■thtf wbrla,- ; aridj the' Victorian agents are thS wfeltknoTOi' 'firm;' 'Messrs'/ Osmes'M of 'this' city !

: " Wliat a change,'! exclaims a [novelist,one 1 little woman can make in a.man's life,". " Exactly," says a victim ;:'f,and-svhat,.a heap of, change sho requires whilo doing it.' 1 . "Getttlemin! Gentlomin-! 1 ' .said ,Pat, "I can't spako inesilf, b.ut if .Colonel . Preston will spake the blarney that, I'dbo after spaking mesilf, if I could, it's mo that'll hold his hat for him. InJade I wull," ■ ' Aurolia wants to how if slio' "should give her hand where her heart cannot follow?" Thunder, no! Keep your.hand and- play it for all there is in It, heart or no heart. Lots of time; when you haven't a shadow of a trump you can catch him on suit. Archibald Forbes says in thNorth American Review that the American array, is superior 'to the English army. Mr. Forbes has just been married to an American lady, and could not with any safety have said otherwise. Crowds aro honest, If you'compliment an individual mail to his-face, he'll pretend lie doesn't like it; but tell an audience that it is with unspeakable' pleasure tlnit; you appoar before' such a fine-looking, intelligont-looking body of men, and you willlie applauded to the echo, ~ " You write a beautilul hand. I wish' that I had such a hand." , said Mr. Flasher to a lady clerk at Bie. hotel. „ "Am I to consider this as a proposal?" asked the bright lady. Well-er-yes—;if my wifo is willing to let mo off," replied the accomplished Flasher, ' . A young naturalist writes us to loam how 1 lie 'can catch a live wasp for sciontlficpurposes with- 1 out iiijurinf>: it ? Bight by the tail, son; ripht by the tip ond of the taih' Squeeze hard* The. wasp wont't mindiit a particle, and if it seems tn ■be injured anv way .that you can see, send us the bill, and we'll pay for a new wasp. It was .evening., Three of thorn we're killing a cat,. Ono of them held a lantern, another held the cat, and a third jammed a pistol into the cat's car and'fired, shouting the man in the hand who held the cat, and the ono with tho lantern was wounded in the arm. ■ The cat left when it saw: how matters stood and that ill-feoling was boing engendered. , MiDan Pelter called his wife Venus''one day ; i that inadeher mad. " I don't want to bp called no names," she pouted, " But yo aro so' much like Venus." ho said apologetically. " I ain't and I hain t been introduced to no such lady,' 1, she persisted;' " VVall,' then," I admit that ye doh|t "possess noneV her qualities," conceded the amiiiblo Danj and sho was pleased again, '' " Fred Flasher and Miss Florcntia Flounce were discussing the"mental power of controlling thought. Said Flasher: "I' will give you a ■pair of. gloves if. can think of positively' nothing ior; five minutes and still be .awake/' " Done," sho responded,,-. Five minutes,passed. ." I've, won the gloves I" she exclaimed, .." How did you manage to think. of '.nothing ior,, the whole five, minutes?" lie: asked, eagerly.' "I fastened my mind firmly on your moustache and kept it th'oro." sho replied; : triumphantly. , The ' roieree awarded her the gloves.' ; '"' A fine-eared gentleman criticises tho pronunciation of actors who claim to be "stars" in the profession. " Familiar lines,-" ho says, " are pronounced as follows: ' Aniiils : and min'sters of •gur race defen, dus'Dead for a duck-it;' '.The potlnt plson!' 1 A fellew, of most infi-night .witandme-ostcx-slunt faneee; "Thawr arid resolve into a jew;',' The me-ous turrap;' ' Than wuzeverdu-rcomeduv in ye-nre fe-loso-fee;' andsoon," . An educational anecdote is related of a mathematical professor in a western college, illustrating his habit, like that of tho estimable Mr.' Gyadgrind, of relying entirely upon fact,' fte had been invited 1 by a city frend to-visit Idm. at his residence in —stjup, and had promised todo so,