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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1738, 17 July 1884, Page 2

There 1a now in Trieste a musical wonder who is astonishing the greatest artists and musical eonnoiseurs. Hia name is Hcrr Nathan, anrl lie was bora without arms or hands, He is now givin" concerts, playing on tile violin with Ins toes; and when hearing him, one is sorely puzzlod to know whether those exquisite tones aro really brought out by the toes and not by the fingers. When the young artist comes on the platform and has taken his position, he opens his violin case and takes out the instrument, seizes the bow, tunes tho violin, and at last pulls a handkerchief from his coat pocket and wipes his face. But the astonishment of listeners reaches its highest point when with bis left foot ho gracefully holds the bow, and placing his right foot on the strings of the instrument, begins to plav. His expressive playing, together with the shakes and runs, and his moeulation from tho softest ' pianisaium' to tho greatest, 1 forte' is beyond description, and is the wonder of the whole musical world, and those fortunate enough to Bee and hear him, Herr Nathan intends to give concerts in the various European capitals, • In " Simpson and Co." Mrs Fitzallen has this line—"Does he slill maintain his influence at the Indian House?" but by a slip of the tongue an aotress varied the reading thns—" Does he still maintain his infants at the Indian House," This as might be expected, brought down tha house. Mr Hoyle has prepared a comparative table of the expenditure of the British people on various objects, Here are some of the objects i There is expended overy year on Christian misßons, L 1,959,000; on education, Lll,000,000; on cotton goods, L 14,000,000; on tea, coffee and cocoa, L 20,009,000; oil sugar L 25,000,000; on milk, L 30,000,000; on woollen goods, L 46,000,000; on bread L 70.000; on liquor, L 136,000,000. A tempeance lecturer recently thua addressed an Irish audience: Boys, what causes all outrages? The drink, "What makes you shoot at the landlords ? The drink, What mates you miss the landlords? The drink 1 _ One of the Melbourne suburban con--tingents of the Salvation Army boasts of a " darkey' 1 who loses no oportunity of proclaming that Salvation- has washed him as white as show, " Say," asked an irreverent youth, " What's the brand o' that soap, agin ? I must get a bar 1" A New York ballet girl savs that 'the reason why the American theatres close in tha summer is not because of the hot weather, but on account of the liberal and free display of symmetrioaUy«limbed ferminity on the beaches of Long Branch and other fashionable watering places. Thick deads.—Heavy stomachs, bilions conditions—" Wells' May Apple Pills"—antjbilious, cathartic, 6d and la, N, Z, Drag Co. , '