A Novel Idea.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3265, 25 July 1889, Page 2

A Novel Idea.

;. A djnner to topers I Tbo idea is delightful. It has been eaqerly taken up by the ex-Mayor and Mayoress of Liverpool, first men and then women, all addicted to drink and familiar with the police, have in succession benefitted by this unique hospitality, I note that the women, who mustered to the number of 120, and whose ranks might have been considerably strengthened, were recruited from the lower classea.and that nearly all nationalities were represented at the festive board. It would, however, be a libel on tits

lower classes set them down as iho exclusive classes who are drunkards, and it may be supposed that it would not have been very diflicult to secure tho attoudauco of a whole army of " rospectnblo" topers, The ex-Mayor oonforred asignal honour upon the most notorious feninulo drunkard —from Nowcustlo-upon-Tyiio-by personally conducting her into the (Jmiirnl Hall, Hood street, where the festivity took place. She had scored no less thim at one hundred appearances hoforo the ■jF magistrates in Newcastle, so that the company of an ex-Mayor was by no means novel to her, but to hang on mi ox-Mayor's arm as she was led to the festive board—the thing was quite refreshing I It is to be hoped that the number of topers will not be increased by the display of this signal honour and festivity. Topers are to he mot everywhere. Their number if legion, and if they are to he entertained at dinner hy Civic digitaries,

it is to be feared an encouragement '* 4r "Over looked for in these days of philanthrojiy will bo developed.— Yorkshire Post.

Tho damage done by the liroat Messrs Andrew Kerr and Co's timber yard, Melboumo, is estimated nt -£12,000. Two hundred men aro temporarily thrown out of employment. A Melboumo paper says:—"lt is (Med that there is nt tho General Post Oflico awaiting a claimant a letter addressed to 'the most holiest ami respectable lawyerjin Molbouruo.' The delivery of ordinary letters at the windows will have to bo suspended to make room for tho applicants for I hat llfMer.

Tho nccounts of the Glasgow International Exhibition havo just been issued. They show that tho total income amounted to L2'25,000, the profits being placed at L 41.000. Mrs Eliza Buxbury, of Widness, who died suddenly in private lodgings in a house at Bray, near Dublin, tho other day, has bequeathed L2QOO to Mr I'arncll for his private uso. ■The standing couimittco of the House ot Lords on Law has approved of the Bill intended to authorise Hogging of *. armed burglars. r A meetinp will bo held in London at an early date to assist the project of a memorial to Smith, the author of the "Wealth of Nations." The Cunard liner I'mbria passed Browhead from a late trip at 12.37 a.m., having accomplished tho voyage in 0 days 2 hours and 37 minutes. An anonymous donor called «t the offico of tho London City Mission, and left LISIO in tho Bank of England notes for tho benefit of tho institution.

At the Old Bailey, London, Thomas Barton (46) was sentenced to ten years'

ponal servitude for forging railway flt traußford, valued at L 22,000, at Maccloa ■ £ field. - The excavations beneath thoParthonoii havo resulted in discovering a sublet'- 1 . ranoan vault of the old Christian Church with some tombs containing bones, and lastly aomo very ancient work, supposed to belong to the temple built by Ptsisttatus. All dificultios in tho niatiufactnro of dynamite shells have beon surmounted. They can now bo constructed in such a way that, when used in warfaro, the strongost steel armour plates would bo smashed into minuto fragments at the , distanco of a mile. St . Iho smallest horse in tho world mado f* its appearance at Kaoine, fllilwaukco, lately. It is tho property of Mr P. K. Bull, is a Shetland puny, and weighs 42 pounds, It is 2ft oin high and 2ft Sin long and resembles a dog more than a horse, A cheap aud efficient substitute for the hand gronades sold for putting out fire, can be made by filling ordinary quart bottles with a saturated solution of common salt, The salt forms a ooating on everything the water touches, and makes it nearly incombustible.

Ono head of a public school said he ..Kj-Onld always tell when a boy commenced use tobacco by the record of his recitations. Prosessor Oliver, of tho Annapolis Academy, said he could indicate tho boy who used tobacco by his absolute inability to draw aolean straight lino.