FOREIGN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3772, 30 March 1891, Page 2

FOREIGN.

St John's, March 26. Fifteen members of the Newfoundland Assembly refused to attend the Upper House while the Boyal assent was being given to certain measures which had been passed, adopting this step as a protest against the coercion of the Imperial Government. When the Speaker and the Premier obeyed the summons these members shouted out, " Traitors I Traitors!" St. Johns, March 27. The Premier of Newfound and, Speaker of the House of Assembly, the Leader of the Opposition, and two others been appointed delegates to proceed to England to protest against Imperial coercion. Vienna, March 27. It is reported there has been a large concentration of Russian troops on the Austrian frontier. Washington, March 25. Fifteen hundred deaths from influenza have been recorded in Chicago in 'a fortnight, and seven hundred at* Pittsburg. At Alleghany and other phcea it seems to be declining. March 26. The death rate from influenza at Chicago is 150 per day. Scores of doctors are confiuedtobed by it. Ten thousand cases have occurred at Pittsburg. Detective O'Malley has been indicted at New Orleans for bribing \ the jury in the Sicilian murder trial. Meetings are being held everywhere to protest against Italian Secret Societies. Gibraltar, March 27. The Marine Court whioh held the enquiry into the circumstances connected with the collision between the s.s. Utopia and H.M.S. Anson, found that the captain of the former vessel had committed a grave error or judgment, but returned his certificate. Rome, March 27. The Bank at Leghorn has suspended payment. Its liabilities are said to amount to £2,000,000. Lisbon, March 26. Oue hundred and sixty of the soldiers who were imprisoned after the rising at Opoioto have been to deportation. March 26. Major Serpa Pinto, the well-known explorer, is seriously ill, £aris, March 26. The Queen of England met with a brilliant reception at Grasse.

•V ABOVE "Spanish wine, sir," said the waiter of*,, restaurant to a guest, and he prepared to .... fill his glass with pherry, not anticipating » wine I" exclaimed the guest, nervously. "Oh, no. Take it away.' • • They've got the cholera in Spain. t » / t , 9 Spanish wine for me." "j j "You need not be alarmed," resp6nded ■ the waiter; "all our Spanish Wines-m® , > manufactured in Paris." _ ,i .. . 4 So the nervous gentleman araM ntfp 1 * 85 i * of Exeres, and was thankful. •; { j HOW TO MAKE | \ YOUNGER. | A piquant saleswoman whose big brother .1 —he is in the business referred to—sent her over to Paris to study the styljsand take in the Eiffel tower and all that, chatted thus as she sold a bonnet to a woman about whose eyes there remained some of the psnes of the roses of several years ago. „ " Let me put ties on this bonnet. Everything in Paris runs to ties. Ties are all the rage. Believe me, dear madam, evenmatrimonial ties arc going to have ijjpre of a run this season than heretofore." < ... Of course the woman in whose face there were some recollections bought the bonnet. And when she had got clear out of sight, safe beyond return, the beautiful little bundle of conceit who had played the rdle • of spider in the old, old farce-tragedy of "The Spider and the Fly" said almost P M h poor Utile woman I She didn't know why I insisted upon putting ties, on her bonnet. And yet it was for her own benefit. Besides, it's business. I am Mt- ruch a wretch after all. Why did lAogljkt Because ties on the bonnet or tKy|Ml_any • woman who has passed the m!SVNhirty, years do much to make that woman look younger. You know, maybe, that age begins to show itself first of all on a woman's throat. I heard that in Paris, and the woman who said it—oh, how well' she knows! A tie, even if it be as tiny M that which a mother strings about the neck of her babe, will conceal from critical eyes these first paths furrowed by time. It is a trick of the trade, you say. Maybe. There are tricks in all trades. Beauty is a trade • - the trick is to preserve it. If I can something which will hide the first impriß of time on a woman she is mine, I, know my business." IN THE STOCKS.

•' Put yourself in his place," is the rulfc - if & man would like to know how his tired neighbour feels. Like many another good rule, however, it is not to be too rigorously insisted upon. There are some forms of suffering, concerning which even the most sympathetic man may be willing to form his opinion by observation and reasoning rather than by experience. Lord Camden, Lord Chief Justice of England, was walking with his host, Lord Dacre, an absent-minded man. '• • J ' l ' As they were pissing the parish stocks,' Lord Camden said: "I wonder whether* man in the stocks suffers physical pain ? t . I'm inclined to think that, apart frojji tbj , sense of shame, he suffers nothing, unlem the boys pelt him with brickbats," ' i "Settle the doubt by putting yout feet into the holes," said Lord Dacre., s7lityfl . - " I will 1" exclaimed Camden, and he. sat down and put his feet into the holes. " No% Dacre," said he, " fasten the bolts -Mid leave me for ten minutes." ■ Lord Dacre did so, but quickly fo t&k his distinguished guest, who sat awaiting hit return with his feet fifteen inches higher, than his seat, and encircled by hard wotx!.' Acute pains shot along the confined limbs ;* . his feet ached, and cramps seized the muscles of the thighs. Faintness, giddiness and thirst increased his discomfort, nc A peasant passing by was implored by tl* i prisoner to liberate him, and answered with, a sneer of derision. A clergyman on being i told by the prisoner that he was Lord- I Camden, exclaimed:" Ah I mad with liquor.'. J 'Tis droll, though, he should imagine him?* 1 self a chief justice," and he passed oil. ' I I For ten hours the poor judge sat in the 1 stocks. When at last he was taken out and' I carried to his host's house, his miserable I plight had settled in his mind that the : I punishment of the stocks is attended by. * great physical suffering. > ( A year or two after Lord Camden pre- ■ sided at a trial in which a workman brought, an action against a magistrate, who hadv wrongfully placed him in the stocks. The counsel for the magistrate attempted to laugh the case out of court, and made merry at the workman's statement that he suffered intense pain during his confinement, v " Brother, were you ever in the stocks ?" I, whispered Lord Camden, leaning forward. - J*"Never, my lord," answered the astonished lawyer, " Well, I have been ; and let me UIUMi | you that the agony is awful." f •THREE PENNILESS ACTORS.^)

Three young men, setting out on •'» journey to a distant part of th« country, andl without a penny in their pockets to defray s their expanses, determined, after counsel together, to assume the character ' of strolling actors, and on arriving at their* first halting-place solicited and obtained 1 permission from the local authorities to. announce theperformance of a piece never before represented, and entitled "The Penniless . Travellers." There being no theatre in the village, they decided onerecting a temporary stage in a large barn, the hire of which,wa* to be paid out of the receipts; and as sobs Vas their preparations were completed, and t two itinerant musicians engaged by way of orchestra, sent an individual with a drum to summon the inhabitants, most of whom, attracted by the novelty, readily handed y over their threepence each to one of the . confederates posted at the entrance to the barn. When all were assembled, and remained patiently awaiting the commenceDMnt, the trio quietly decamped with, their booty after locking the door and carrying away the key with them, exulting in the succew of their stratagem. About a faille ' from the village (hey met a peasant on hij way thither, and besought him as a favour, to take back the key ana unlook the door of the barn they had forgotten to leave open, ' adding that in it there were a number of calves half starved with hunger, not having. . eaten anything all day. The peasant willingly consented, but on his arrival wa» somewhat surprised to hear sounds pro* ceeding from the interior of the barn mot* resembling human voices than the bleating of the animals he expected to find there. However, he lost no time in unlocking the door, and coula not restrain his merriment when he beheld some four score individual* rushing out one after another, evidently to a state of extraordinary exasperation. Thl« unwonted spectacle so amused him that.he literally roared with laughter; seeing whWfcp*! the entire multitude, naturally taking _ for an accomplice of the three advent ras, fell upon him, and belaboured him soullly. A few weeks later, a company of real' Thespians, happening to pass through the village, and being in sore want of fundr, proposed, as their ill-luck would have it, to , give the inhabitants a taste of their quality; whereupon the latter, imagining themselvea likely to be duped a second time, so rudely maltreated them that they had great dLßfcwlty in taping with their Uvei.

. W&RE EVERYBODY SMdXES. .1. Everybody smokes in Mexico with few exceptions. The market-woman puffs her cigarette; the peon labourers are unhappy without their cigarettes; men and boys smoke, and a few old-fashioned ladies of advanced years. But it is untrue to say that Mexican ladies, m a rule, smoke either cigarettes or cigars. One may smoke at one's ease in the train* cars, and conductor and driver are pretty sure to be seen with cigafiKls in thefr mouths. ' Priests smoke complac«s®jr t and postoffice clerks as they sort (he mail. Smoke, fills the ante-chaml>er of the natural palace and floats into the quiet churches by iho open doors. Pipes are not used except by a few foreigners. You step in to see your banker;; he offers you a cigarette. Your doctor pufFc as he feels your pulse. A tksiRABLIi MOTI/A'TMN A great many stcrtas have been tolJ" v about men who had n-.« use for their mother* in-law; hence an exception to the geueral rule is very refreshing ' 1 " I don't want to near or read anything disparaging to mothers in-law," said a': judge to his young friend William Peckin). " What makes you talk in that ecccntfk sort of way, judge ?" "I'll tell you why. My wife has jawed almost to death ever since we were marriecflM Last week I invited her mother to come and I live with us." I " Man alive. Have you lost your sentes ?". ■ " Not much. You see they don't anee'.V '■ They fight each other all dav long, and I am.v; I enjoying a season of heavenly rest. My wife. I is so tired quarrelling all day with her: '■ mother, thAt when I come home there is 1 ■ nothing left 6ver for mo. Why, that mother* - ■ in-law of mine is a lightning rod. I feel I perfectly safe as long as she is in the house.!, ■ She is a treasure. The. next mao IheUr I abusing mothers-in-law has got me' to I> only wish I had three or four of' themlflSM my bouse, 'd feel * f^r^tly

EXPOUNDING \ Scotch clergyman once said the great W: .{' t>f the old . Scottish elder at f-. /deacon .wasjris power of expounding Scrtp- ; yf iture; never at a loss about the mean-if-L. ing.of a wssage. As an illustration of this 'y. he said/An elder was reading and com7 f mentipg Upon the thirty-fourth Psalm, and, to verse thirteen he saw: "Keep thy ywngue from evil, and thy lips from speaking The last two words he read aloud I as " squeaking girls," and then he remarked P* by way of exposition: "It is evident from : this passage the Scripture does not abj solutely forbid kissing, but, as in Christianity, everything, is to be done decently | ; and in order, we are encouraged by the pasK' sage to choose rather those girls that take it quietly, and not those that squeak under the operation." IT WASN'T THE PRINCIPLE. -A young man -with excited step and flushed face stopped a policeman and stated that he had been robbed. "When and where ?" inquired the officer. " Out on the Embankment this afternoon." _ . "How much?" *•-»«: " Well, as hear as I can figure it, there . was about one-and-fourpence in the purse." " Halve you any suspicions ?" ...... . • "No." "Isn't it * pretty small matter to complain about ?" queried the officer, "or is it the principle of the thing which actuates you?" > " Principle of the thing be hanged!" hotly exclaimed the young man. "What I'm after is my.money,- and if I don't get it I'll - h* v thirteen miles home ! PrinciplevkjArywy well, but I'd see a ton of it before I'd walk thirteen - jfe. " A ' The hour was late. A man stwdata tall desk, looking over an enormous bdok. A rough-looking fellow stepped into' the room, and drawingapistol said, "Keep quiet." . "I am quiet," the man answered, without showing the faintest sign of emotion, "Allright;remain that way, I am a robber." " So am I," the man answered.' : you a robber !" " Yes;l have been appointed receiver for : this company." "Oh, is that a fact ? In that case I must leaveyou. Ineverbeatamanoutofhisjob." CONSIDERATE TO THE LAST. Sandy Wilson, when at the point of death, sent for a neighbour with whom he had long been in feud, his conscience sharply reminding him that he ought to leave this world at peace with all who were in it, in order to have, any good chance or likelihood of faring well in the next. The reconciliation was effected, allowances having been made on both sides, but particularly on the dying man's; aod the visitor was about to ' take farewell leave, wbea Sandy said, in a faint yet resolute voice: *• Noo, Jemmy, ma man, if aw dinna de after a'—an' while there's life, ye ken, there's still hope—things 'll just ha' to be atween us as they were afore. Ye'll understand that." A FEMALE ODDITY.

At » village a few miles from London lives a young lady who is the talk of the whole neighbourhood, on account of her uncommon sympathies and antipathies. She has amortal aversion to all colours except green, yellow, and white, in either of which 1 she is always dressed. She has been known to swoon away at the sight of a soldier; and a funeral never fails to throw her into a cold sweat. She will not eat or drink out of any other thin green ware or pewter. She cannot bear the taste of any ripe fruit except green damoscens; but even these she will gladly exchange for onions, of which she is particularly fond when roasted. She prefers a draught of the Thames water, when muddy, to the'dearest spring that ever bubbled from; a . fountain. A fricassee of frogs or mice is her delight, although a sight; of a mushroom will make her change colourShe loves beef or mutton that is fly-blown; and she cannot taste a bit of veal that is eitherwhite, firm, or fresh killed. She is Yond of hays, woodbine, box, and dandelion, asd the finest salads; turnips and raddishshe prefers to the most delicate brocoll, savoys, or cabbage plants. When a child she used to be very fond of eating - small coals, and, at night, if her mother left ■ her in the room by herself, she was sure to all the contents of the candle of late refined. Although now not twenty v years of age, she is very negligent of her person; cannot bear to walk abroad on a 'fine day, but loves to saunter in the evening by the side of the river, if a thick nauseous "fog hs * arising. She prefers the sound of a Jew's , harp or hurdy-gurdy to the best violin or German flute in the universe. Her *, 'parents, who are people of taste and fortune, have often attempted her reformation, but in vain. She loves to ride in the bread waggon for half a mile or so; and if it should chance to. rain, she will not return HPtMie until she is wet to the skin. With all these oddities, she is very handsome, has neat natural parts, and a good education. ' Wgen her parents die, she will have an estate of three thousand a year, besides a ." considerable sum of money in the funds. :-v About two years ago a nobleman, well ' - fciovm in the circle of gallantry, paid his addresses to her, although he had heard of her pddities; and their nuptials would have ' been speedily celebrated had she not suddenly conceived an utter aversion to him, on account of his' refusing to eat some hot cockles and periwinkles, which she had taken particular care in dressing herself. At present there is a young gentleman of law - who, it is imagined, will soon be in pos- : - session of this delicious morsel of whim, as he" has gained her affections by walking with her in a favourite marsh during the* rain, and instructing her in the best "-method to dress devils and make salmagundy.—From an old number of the Westminster Btvitw.

orthographical changes in THE LORD'S PRAYER. A.D. 1250. Fader ure in heune, halewede beoth thi neune, cnmen thi kuneriche, thi wote beoth " idon in heune and in erthe. Ure euerych ~ .dawe breid gif vus thilk dawe. Andvorzef ; jure deltes, as vi vorzefen ure bettoures, and - lede vus nouzt into temptation, bote deliueri vas of evil. Amen. A.D. 1300. Fader oure in hevne, Halewd be thi name, Come , thi kingdom. Thi wille be don as in heven and erthe Oure eche dayes ■> bred'geve us today. And forgeve us our dettes, asweforgeven our dettoures. And into temptation. Bote delyvere Amen. - . . A.D. 1380. Ourefadirthat art in heunes halowed by " ~ tbi name, thi kingdom come to, be thi wille done in erthe as in heune, give us this day our breed, our other substance, iorgeueto us our detts, as we forgeun to our dettouris, - lede ns sot into temptacioun, but delyuer us from yuel. Amen. A.D. 1483. ■ Father our that art in heavens, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdome come to us ,* ■ 'thy wille be done in earth as in heaven ; 'oure every days bred give us today; and •' forgive ns oure trespasses, as we forgive _ them as trespass against us; and lead us not Into temptations, but deliver us from all evil sin, amen. •• i /" A.D. 1534. O, oure father which art in heaven, hal- • lowed be thy name ; Let thy kingdome cnpig- Thy wille be fulfilled as well in erth as yt neven. * Geve us dayly biede. And forgeve v« our tresspasses, 'even as we forgeve oure tresspasers. And leadevs not into temptaeion;. but delyver ■ Ivs from evdlJ»gor thine is the kyngedome and the for ever. Amen. ' 1 KJ>. 1582- • '•#. OS Fatßsr,JPhicJi art ift heaven, sancti- ~ -fied bfe thy name. Let thy Kingdom come." " Thy will.be done as in heaven, in earth also. Give ns today our superstantial bread. 'And forgive us our dettes, as we also forv - give our detters. And lead us not into temptation. j But deliver us from evil. Amen. a.d. 1600. our father which art in heaven, hallowed . be Thy name. ' come. Thy will be done earth as it is in heaven. ut this day our dayly bread, vAnd forgive us our debts, as we also for- - rive our debtors. ' jSnd lead us not into temptation but de- ' ns from evil; for Thine is theking- ' Slofiei 'and the - power and the glory for - ev*r. Amen., - .» 5 •*»" x- r V AD. 1653.. " 1 father which art in heaven. Halbe tby name. kingdom come., Thy will be done in as it is in Jieavenl ns day our daily bread. forgive ns our debts, as we forgive debtors. And kad us not into temptation butdeus fromevil; for Thine is the kingdom power and the glory forever. Amen. oa. the - alter thebafctle of Water.stained mire of a English lie-fell.—At his tide tayfl

breast was their baby, sound asleep, and smiling amid' that dreadful scene as ! though angels were inspiring its dreams. 1 Ah, God: what a thing is childhood ; touching Heaven in its innocence and ' earth in its agony. While we have the children how large the places they fill! When we lose them how great the vacancies they leave! Bead the Btory of an escape as told by a parent. My daughter Kate, now eleven years old, had always been delicate. She was pale and thin, and as it seemed, as though a breath ut cold air would destroy "her. She was dow better, now .worse, but never well. In the summer of 1885, she complained of a sense of weight in the chest and side. Her abdomen was distended as though she had overaaten, wheu in fact she ai.e scarcely wore than a bird. She spoke of a bad taste in the mouth, and would always be holding her sideß, or placing her hands against her temples, as if to relievo the pressure there. She also had pain i between the shoulders, and her breast was very offensive. She wai always tired and langnid, and though naturally a bright, nte'ligent ch-'ld, would lie for hours in a listless condition. She grew weaker and weaker until she could scarcely stand. "We thought her to be in a decline. Then came a s ; gn even more alarming,—a short, dry, deep-sounding cou?h. My wife and 1 feared it was consumption. In our anxiety we consulted the doctors, who said, " Yes, your daughter has consumption." What a lad prospect for us ! About Christmas, 1885,1 removed my fami'y from Huntingdon to Manchester Poor Kate was too weak to take the journey wfth us ; she rema : ned with her grandmother at Thorp Farm, Norlolk, StiU the dear child sank from week to week.—What was our surprise soire t : me afterwrrds, to receive a letter from grandmother reading this : ' 'Kate is very much better. She is eating well and sleeping well; and the rosts arc coming into her thin cheeks." What could have happened? In another month we had the happiness of welcoming our daughter in our new home _in Manchester. How great was our joy when we saw the wonderful change wh'ch had taken place in her. She is now a fine, healthy child, and never ails any more than any girl may. Now, what wrought this change ? What cave us back onr daughter, seeuinply almost from the brink of the grave ? I will answer frankly, for there is nothing to conceal: —Seeing her de. plorable state, and none of the medicines she had taken proved appropriate to her strange ma'ady, her grandmother one day said to herself, "I think I will give Kate a dose out of my bottle of Mother Seigel's Crratiye Syrup." Her grandmother had received great benefit from this medicine herself for a comcomplicated disease. It was given to Kate and the good effect was immediate She at once rested more tranquilly and had something of an appetite, _ and a little later her grandmother was justified in writing to us as I have already stated ! (Signed) Frederick Butcher, 6, i Birch Road, Crumpsall, near Manchester Mr and Mrs Butcher are people of the highest respectability and well educated. Mr Butcher was an assistant at the great shop of the Messrs Lewis, Market-st., Manchester, and an impartial acquaintance writes that Miss Kate Butcher is one of the brightest young girls to be met with anywhere—quick, precocious, and full of vivacity and wit. Speaking of the daughter's recovery her mother says: "I do not care what anyone may say, there is no medicine so good as Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup.'" The proprietors of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup desire to make no false impressions. The young girl did not have consumption :—She suffered from indigestion and dyspepsia, and from poverty of the blood, like myraids of her sex The hollow cough, which sounded so consumptive, was one of the symptoms, not the disease. She needed life and strength from her food, but how could she get it with her stomach torpid and dead ? Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup corrected the ailment at its root, and recovery quickly followed. We 'repeat once more the fact that is taught by this interesting case:— vVhen in doubt treat any and all complaints as symptoms of indigestion and dy a pepsia, and in nine instances out of ten you will see just such a wonder as narrated above. We wish long life and h?ppy days to this young lady and her good parents and friends.