LEAP YEAR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1578, 9 January 1884, Page 2

LEAP YEAR.

This is the year in which the ladies' "" hav« the option of making matrimonial overtures. According to Dr Brewer: —"St, Patrick, having driven tho frogs.out of the bogs, was walking along the shores of Loch Neagh, when he was accosted by St. Bridget in tears, and was told that a mutiny had broken out in the nunnery over which she presided, the ladies claiming the right of 'poppingthe question.' St. Patrick said he would concede them • the right every seventh year, when St. ;' Bridget threw her arms around bis ' ■ neck, and exclaimed, 'Arrah, Path- ; rick, jewel, I daurn't go back to the .'' girls wid such a proposal Make it one year in four.' St Patrick replied, 'Bridget, acushla, squeege mo that way agin, and I'll give ye leap year, the longest of the lot.' St. Bridget, upon 'this, popped the question to St Patrick himself, who, of course, could not' marry'; so he patched up the difficulty : as best he could, with a kiss and a silkgown." '\ ——a—— ■. • U . Some sections of Eastern Mexico are "T overunby.locusts, AtSanLuisPotosi' '.' they, occupy a perfect parallelogram ... seven leagues long by two leagues wide, in a solid rank, and are travail- ,: ing northward, leaving no verdure ; behind them. ■"'• : v;: Mrs Wolsely, mother of General Lord Wolsely, died at Kiohmohd, on "} Oct. 7, at the age of eighty-two. Th« ; deceased lady, Prances Anne, was a • 'daughter of Mr Smith, of Golden Bridge House, County -Dublin, ,' and was born in v XB^iV;, She marrjcd . in 1825 Major' 'Garnet Joseph Wolseley,of the King's OwnßorflerWfi but was left a widow in, 1840.