ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2355, 24 July 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

ROUND THE WORLD.

"I have'never given you ereilit lor knowing vary much, madame," said a blunt ol<f bachelor, "but—" ''■ Sir," she interrupted "do you with insult—" >' But," be contiaucd, " I luvo always \dmirod your grace and'beauty." "I;i acept your apology," said the lady. ■ 001. Kzrletop' was under the p'linful jecesiity :.of administering ut severe j&atigation to his son Johnny. After he had completed his labors, he said 'sternly to the suffering victim—''Now, tell ma why I punished you I"' "That's it," gobbed,.Johnny; "yon' nearly pound the life nut of me, and you don't even Jcnow.why you did ir.'\

The bishopric of Newi-ascle, K.S.V«', may, in ascertain contingency, become vacant shortly. Itappearß the stipend fund independent oh investments made in certain squatting properties; ami these having fallen in value, and ceased ta yield sufficient revenue, the bishop has been latterly doing the work with out the usual pay. He has been •bliged to intimate, to the synod now eittiug iri Newcastle, that it" may haveto jo without a bishop for a time," unless it san'secure the services of oue with adequate private means, "The, most clannish people I ever heard of mi Da Rentoul of Woolwich in a recent lecture are the Scot?. There was once a man who had sprats to sell, and he .went- up and down tbe-Mrcets crying ' Fine Scottish sprats! Beautiful Scottish sprats'!' and he had good demand for them. But somemm took him to task for the name he wave them, as they were caught off Yaimomh. 'But I tfill you they must be >* ■ttish, 1 replied .thu 0!wt»-nmm;;ei'; tluu't i' ,, u lee how tli"_v Mick tofji'tlitii-!" In tin'- arMcl." on tho'Quulc.Ts ,in tho Hew volum■' ui itlp) " I''iuc)'c.L)pti!''i!i Britanniw," Si- lulwa-d Fry :■ n-- the cultivation of uuimc and other m-'-s is| no longer discouraged in 1 1n* tvi-i-iy axeept by vpr/fflw, and tbat 1 i it*]-ury a:ul scientific taste* havo been cultivated all the move because their attention was not re-oocupied by the love of field sports or dancing, He adds thai a number of men, either Quakers or of Quaker origin and proclivities, large in proportion tothe small body withwhich they are connected, occupy positions of influence in British society, and carry with them not the full body of Quaker doctrine, but some leaven of Quaker habite and thoughts and feelings. Emperor William of Germany, at oiglity-aine years of age, is still a very boiy man, and has hu day's work cut vat for him ai regular *« any state offleial. For laveral yem he has pursued the same routine, Ho rises every day of the year at half-past saven, aud dresses at enee for the day, disdaining to use either dressing-gown or slippers. "■What is the difference, my Lord," laid a part lub-altern, the other day, to a oertain dignified maker of jokes,—" what ii the difference between an ass and an archbishop ?" A pause ensued. "Do you give it up ?" " I give it up," quoth the digniUry. "Well then," quoth young flippant, "it is that the asses' eross is upon his back, while the Archbishop's lies, upon his breast." Good indoad; hut let me ask in return, what ii tihe difference between an ass and an officer-say in the army?" A longer pause ensued, subaltern gave it up. " I protest," quoth he, " I cannot make it out. The difference ?—the d iffjrence ? -rlfo, I cannot see it." "K either can 1/' said the grave 'ir-A-Prelate; and turning on his heel left the malapert querist to meditate upon i distinction without a difference,

Jim Xma Aoauc..-" My mother ■wu afflicted a long time with neuralgia tod i dull, heavy, inactive' condition of the whole system,; headache, nervous Jjrostration, and was almost helpless. No phyflioianß or medicines did her any good. Three months ago she began to use Dv Boole's Hop Bitters, with such good effect that she seems and feels young again, although over seventy years old."—A 1m ik R. L, O.S.A, Look up.