PLUCKY MISS WEAVING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1589, 22 January 1884, Page 2

PLUCKY MISS WEAVING.

Some evenings ago Miss Weaving, who resides with jier parents at Nei 688, ' Myrtle "A veii^,! BWoktyn, M asleep while reading in bed/ After | time elhi awoke afld found herself \\) darkness, but being sleepy gavo no thought as tq how tho gas was turned off. Taking a shawl from her shoulder which she placed there while reading Miss Weaving reached ont to put it on a chair, which she knew stood beside 'the bed. Sl;e fejt fhp glijiyj t]rop on the flooV, tm'd plcliinjpt \ip"siiß' aWjii' essayed to p^eirs|i ! a ,! cji!|jp '!||}- second time kmhm' w'mA with a. ipan's head. Afc fiysf she thought it wns lw younger bpotbot who was playing some trick on her, but in the same iustanfc she remembered that her brother's hair was not curly, while that of tho man whoso head her 'hand-had touched was. Miss Weaving acfe'd'liljomfitiy. ■ | §h'e i grasped the man by tli'e hair, and, drawing liiiil quickly towards! her' by .''the" lian;! clasped the' p[l|cr" haud'.roiind/'iiifj throat, calling vjgopousjy ibr'jiplp wh|o. she was in the act of securing tjip intruder, When Miss Weavjng'g father reached the room and lit thfl gas tbe.ki'glai', fov, such- tho intruder proved to be, was almost choked to death, If tho fact is taken into consideration that Miss Weaving, although only a young girl, weighs 2171b. and is built in proportion,■ it will be seen J that tjie prompt arrival of. her was .little ■less tlian providential 'for the burglar. The latter,' 1 whij" \yjj turned over a police officer without jo§§ of time, gayo Ills, name ag "pjjarfga Keynolds,'an4 pid he resided at §2Jf Lexington Avenuo, in the city, Rey* nokls was indicted by tho Einq County Grand Jury.—New York Times,

; In sme parts of Kussiait is I that iflha briijji tastes the. cajte an thb'-3r evp of thp Wdrlijjg,"hor husband will M J lovelier,' •' • " Charles, dear," she murmured, aj she strolled along lasi; evening, and gazed at tbo bejewelled firmament," wbicji ig Venus and which is Adonis j' l During the ninth waltz, Osonr, pointing to his boots, remarked to Feliciana:" You can't say I have no polish." " No," sho said, " but you shine at the wrong end." Thrj llev Robert Raikeß, a great- . grandson of the English philanthropist who founded tbe ragged school which led to tho-Sunday sgbo,pl system, has been spending, the'cummer on the island "o| Ischia, ministering to the wants.of tfap wouudod and homeless sufferers by the, earthquake. Mr Black the novelist tells perhaps the best story about Thomas Oarlyle. An ad* nnrer of Carlyle's gonius and a" brilher" Scot, Mr Black was wont to. send novels . to the historian is they appeared. One day Oarlyle came across Mr Black and aohpw» ledgod the receipt of the volumes, " But, young man, when are ye going! foj i writoabookf ..-.• t