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Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1531, 27 April 1882, Page 4

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According to the London correspondent of the New York Herjmr^tifo Prince ofWales, speaking to aJPs»roate friend recently, expressed hifwigion of Russian affairs as follows :^JwW I stood in the Church o£;!& ttfet&rsburg on the memorable 4*Jr,-,when : . ! the , funeral ceremonies of the' late Oz»r took place, I never Mt so uncomfortable in, my>Kfe§ I wonfterei Jwtysfyei: the' entire structure mkM'jnblj jbe Mown up, and/ whether mjfliw wpre^ot >ja, under , ( our r feet . to bfi alUnto^ternftiy. . In $t. .Petem- ; burglnra.fc gained (^ clear 'idea ot the Bituation'm.Avhichf^exanderfoundhimselt THe Czar -lias, no.iless than 600, aides-de-camp, whereas I and the Queen have 0n1y.,.8b? between us. ,Tq begm auch reform as the Nihilista wish, the CzaKjnust first dismiss most of these, and , thousands, jof lofficjafc fesidea, and , every porsQji thus, dismissed from the Court woulPliecdme *ah 'enemy quite as dangerous as the individual Nihilists. Even the themselves dq-no^know the difficulties of the Czar's position, desirous as he is of promoting the interests of tHeVenipire and of the people com* mitted to his care."

-IT latins #like on the just and the unjuqt—and on the just mainly, because the unjust' have borrowed their umbrella^ ■- ' The Germano are noted for going to the rootof the matter. -Berlin finds its amok* nuisance almost as great as that: olliondon.: • n-But the official inspector of manufactories has 'discovered that the sraokinessife caused by the unskilfnlness of, stokers. -Accordingly, institutious are to M» r established 'to teach the art of making fires and keeping them up Without creating the nuisance of excessive smoke. , ■<c A bachelor, who was asked by a romantic young lady, ' Why he did not secure some fond one's company in his voyage o'ri the oceati of life,' replied, ' I would if J were sure such an ocean would be pacific. 1 The scamp knew himself too weft..; In' excavating the site for the new gasometer for Dunedin a swordfish, 4 feet 6 inches in length, ami the remains of a 'whale, the' vertebra! of which was about 15 feet, were disco rcred -by the workmen. A few years ago, two brothers, \\ ellknown in' Newcastle, were so* like each other as to make it difficult to recognise • t'other from which.' An acquaintance of both brothers, whilst passing along New Bridge street, met one of them, aud shouted, ' Hello, Joe ! ' bub finding he had made a, mistake, he «ulde<l, ' Oh, it's your brother ; aa thowt it was yorsel !' Alakm has been created in Cheshire by a serious outbreak of pleuro-pneu-mOiiia which lias occured in the neighbourhood of Chester, in the herd of Mr Wright of Tarviii. Links by Mrs Cimabuc Brown.— 1 Sixty Boston students recently appeared at Mr Oscar Wilde's lecture attired in whjte waistcoats and knee-breeches, and wearing sun - flowers in their bottonholes "(American paper) :— Sh.unc on those Huston students, who tl.irc our Hard to Mock, And turn our Lustrous I.ilj into a Laughing Stbck! Caphnu Him.— Dr. Switcher (who had discovescd ' lmlly's-cyes ' about, aud traced them to the original donoi) : 'Don't you know, Muggins, there's an old proverb that " Fools give feasts, and wise men eat, them ?" Muggins: 'Yes, sir; and there's another one sir.' The Doctor : What's that, sir? Now, sir '— (noticing a reticence)—' what is it, sir ?' Muggins (seeing no escape) : ' Please, sir, "W-wise men make proverbs, and ffools repea— " ' [Catches it.]— Punch. An organisation similar to the (Salvation Army, called the " Christain Army," has been formed in Chicago for evangelistic purposes. It lias a Commander-in-chief and other officers down to a corporal. Bishop FalloAV is said to be encouraging the movement, which is unsectarian. The Baroness Rothschild having invited a public singer to dinner, asked her afterwards to try the piano. It gave forth no sound, whereupon the Baroness told her that she had had the wires unstrung, in proof that she invited the prima donna only for the pleasure of her society. Habitation's in Ikbland. — When in J845 Mr Disraeli published "Sybil" he felt 'bound to explain that, so far from having exaggerated realities, he had not evdn 1 ventured to tell the whole truth lest its air of improbability should deter some from' perusal. The proceedings before thci Laud Commissioners now aud again reveal a state of things as bad as anything described in the novelist's pages, and unfortunately beyond any suspicion of exaggeration, incredible as the desciintion may appear. At Kilkenny, the Sub-Commission have "found a state of things which is an offence not only against decency, but against common humanity." An unfortunate herd was "housed in a manner nioic disgraceful than anything they had ever seen or heard of." His dwelling-place was one small apartment, some Btt. or 10ft. square, separated by a stone wall from his employer's' cow-stalls, with no entrance save through' those stalls, and through the ankle-deep manure of the animals. In that place there slept every night five human beings, besides six cows and some goats. An order was made for the building Wf a neAv cottage of u certain size, to which not less than half an acre of laud should be attached, at a yearly rent of 305." If the Laud Act had effected nothing else; it would deserve the support of all •'people with a trace of humanity or sense for the power it gives to the Commissioners of putting an end to a condition' of tilings disgraceful alike to England and to Ireland.— 2W/ MU Gazette.