MANNERS MAKETH MAN. ("QUEEN.")

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 179, 1 July 1873, Page 3

MANNERS MAKETH MAN. ("QUEEN.")

The true £oree and bearing of the old motto that " Manners makyth man" seem somewhat in danger of being forgotten among us ; and there is nothing which middleaged and elderly people regret so much as the decay of politeness among U s. The fine gentleman and the fine lady of former days are totally extinct, and are as much curiosities of bygone times as the ichthyosaurus or the megatherium. Ihe state of society in which they existed — artificial and forced, like the productions of a hot-house — is not to be regrelted. The greater simplicity of our present lives is more in accordance with a healthier moral atmosphere Bat there is a. danger, on the other hand, that our horror of falsity «nd our love of personal independence may lead us into error, and that the young men and ■women of the present day may fall into unrefined pnd -disrespectful modes of action, which formerly would not have been possible. We regret to notice that in the want •of res'raint of children, and in the manners which young people permit Themselves to assume, we see evidences •at a falling-off which argues unpleasantly for the manners of the future. Our attention has been recently drawn to the matter of the value of good manners by an address which is reported us having been made by Lord Dufferin to the students of a School which he \isited in his progress through Canada. His lordship wished to impress on the young people who would afterwards go out as teachers that it was as important to train their young charge? to know how to behave as it was to cram them with book learning. He •spoke of the shock which ho had recrived in noticing, both in Canada and the United States, the general want of respect prevading in the manners of the people ; and ho recommended his audience to remember that the man who best respects himself shows it and commands it by his respect for others. We hare not yet arrived at the American standard of " everybody as good as everybody else," and in his own .estimation, a good deal better; but Lord Duffenn's words of advice to the Canadian teachers might .well be repeated in England, for the benefit of all who hare to do in any way with tho training of the young. The tendency of the present day is decidedly to self-asser-ition, to the questioning of all rights of superiority, to general telf-seeking and the promotion of individual ease. The young people of the present day see no beauty in reßpect and in veneration ; yet it would be well if these lentiments received more careful cultivation than is now given to them. We are all very much Influenced by the manners of those with whom we come jn contact, and a manner shewing thought for others, regard for their opinion, and respect for their position is one not in the slightest degree incompatable with truth and self-respect.

The First Newspapers —For a length of time it has been claimed that to Venice belonged the honor of having had the first printed newspaper, and that tho Acta Diurna, ■published in Romo, was the first manuscript journal ever issued. Recent investigations prove both claims to be unfounded. Of manuscript newswapers, the Fekin Gazette, preserved in the Imperial archives of that city, dates centuries anterior to its Roman contemporary. The first printed newspaper was the Suremburg Gazette, published in 1457, 13 years nrior to the first publication of the Venetian Gazetta. Four Continental journals were in existence when Nicholas Bourne and Thomas Arc'ier published the first in England under the title of the Weekly Newes. Nine yeirs afterwards Franc* followed suit with the Gazette de trance, published at Paris. The newspaper literature of America •was initiated by the Botton Publick Occurrences, in 1690 ; anl the Calcutta Gazette, published in 1781, was the first effort of Asiatic journalism. The pioneer journals were published in the following order -.—Nuremburg Gazette, in 1457 ; Cologne Chronicle, 1499 ; Venice Gazetta, 1570 ; Die Frankfurter Oherpostampti Zritung, 1615 ; London Weeleln Newei, 1622 ; Gazette de France, 1631 ; Swedish Pottoich Inriket Tlndinq, 1614; Leith (Scotland) Mercuric Politico, 1633 ; Rarlaam Courant, 1636 ; Boston Public Occurrences, 1690 ; Pur's Occurrences, (Dublin,) 1700 ; St Petersburg Gazette, 1703 ; Boiton Newsletter, 1704 ; Gaceta de Madrid, 1704 ; Philadelphia Mercury, 1719 ; New York Gazette, 1725 ; Annapolis Gazette, 1727;' Charleston Gazette, 1731 ; Williamsburg Gazette, 1736 : Calcutta Gazette, 1781. Mr Howe issued the first Australian newspaper in this city on March , r >. ]803, under the titl p of tho Sydney Gazette ; and in 1837 John Pascoe F awkne r arranged for publishing the pioneer journal of Victoria, oi ■which the first number was issued in manuscript January 1 , 1838 ; and on the 11th of March following the first printed number came out under the title of the Melbourne Advertiser — Sydney Morning Herald. A saturnine grin stolo over the countenance of Joe, and he remarked that, liquor laws notwithstanding, he would back Vermont for a show of drunken men against any other State in the "Union. " You get the ituff on the sly," he said. I hare heard of the so-called show of the " striped pig " as .one illicit method of obtaining alcohol in Maine ; but in Vermont it would seem that when you have the " office " given you, and enter the " right place," you ask " how the baby is ?" The keeper of the drug, or fruit, or a grocery •tore, whichever it may be, winks, »nd says " Bully." You go down stairs into a cellar or a back yard, and find, in a remote corner, a cupboard full of whisky, brandy, or rum bottles. You fill for yourself, drink, replace tqe bottle, and on going out present the proprietor of the " baby " with ten or fifteen cent., wherewith to purchase, I presume, a coral for the infant. Tho health of the " baby " in Vermont is •sked after with much solicitude. £-V ET U . NENTIABr ' E Honor.— The French npwspapers publish * table sliowmg the f»l e that n«nit ( -<l thr Piesulents of the First Republic. During the Convention (here were 63 president?, 22 of whom were outlawed, 18 guillotined, 8 transport^, 6 condemned to imprisonment for life, 4 went mad and died at Bicetre, and 3 committed suicide to escape the foiffold. Only two escaped-

Our American cousins havo mtroducod (or rather revived , £«h.«"T c f, rem ° ny WM P erf ormed of old) a rather norol W. r lf t °, Wodem Bt - vl ° of tripping upon the light lantast.c 00, and one which is calculated to -giro ft delicious vanatpto the intricate evolution* of the m M y dance. We learn from the San Franaco Chronicle th it polite society at piesent rejoices m the puwsnon of » donco entitled the „, u » dril le. It » evidently a so.t o( lancers, and wiien swinging corner* " eac-li gentleman tenderly kisses ins partner ; at the grand promenade the order .a to ki^s all rounu, t Uen cA«w4« to the opposite side and imprint upon the cheek of your vis a VIS tho " ki»» ot peace " The " grand cuain may bo considered a grand salute and linal performance, for on coming to fhejig everybody, kisacs embody. bdlTro nCe * "° d ° Ubt pi '° Ye a vall "' able " at! q illslt »ou to the A Poser.—A writer tella an anecdote of two wellKnown American clergymen, one of whom un lertook to rebuke the other for using the "weed." " Brother U-," ne exclaimed without stopping to ask any other question, is it possible you smoke ? " " I must confess 1 do," the other quietly replied. » Then I should quit it, air ! " the > gentJeman enei»etically continued. "It is a very unclenc U practioe, and a vei y uncleanly one. Why, sir, even a hog would not smoke ! " » Crother C-," responded his amused hstener, "do you smoke ? " "I ? No, sir !" he answered gruffly, Wlt h much indignation. » Then pray, I which is more like the hog ; you or I ? " The Rev Mr A., a Methodist minister in a Western village, observed, one hot Sunday, that his congregation witna few exceptions, were wrapped in placid ilumber. Suddenly pausing in his sermon, he requested Deacon S. to pass round the plate. The deacon thus accosted, rose to tiia .eet, and with a very mi face, said : "The collection has already been taken up." « Never mind, Brother a-, replied the minister ; " take up another, for I intend to make the congregation pay for lodgings, as well as for spiritual food." When tile second collection had been HKen up, the congregation was very wide awake indeed. Upen your mouth and purse cautiously, and your itook of ™™ reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. Mrs Malaprop lays ghe likes to " pursue " the paper.