GLEANINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1662, 1 March 1883, Page 4

GLEANINGS.

Large numbers of pure-bred Aberdeen polled cattle cftiitiinto 1 ! to be '< imported into the United States. Thk cur.vtors of Edinburgh University B&vb unsolved to advertise for candidates BrfetoCelb'cCdair. ' *' l » V Thk Broad Arrow states tliat n parcel of 10,000 photographs of Sir Ciai-nct Wolseley has loft London for New York. Thk Jewish Rabbis in (ionnany li.aye petitioned the Govcrment to allow them to prenx! the title (Reverend to their names. Ix 1831 the idea of two steamers findins; employment on the New South Wales, coast considered preposperon£. '< * Lahdahd Wnier says— "Air. Barnum has an eye on the claimant, and intends to run him on a tour when the unhappy nobleman is set free. The proposal has, however, been capped by a Yoikshiie publican, who has offered the claimant's wife a place as barmaid. The generosity of this Boniface is leavened by a nice calculation of what such a woman would be worth as a retailer of beer." Ik you are roasting so hard that your collar is almost melted, and you want to get cooled off, don'tgo and give fifteen cents tor a glass oi lemonade. Just attempt to Jight a cigar with your last match. Then a breeze will start up. There is a movement on foot among summer resort landlords to build larger rooms for their guests. It is actually expected that by another year some of the rooms will be big enough for a man to change his shirt in without having to stick his arms and head out of tlio window, A I'HYSKJUv falls into a fit while making a round of visits, and is carried into a drug store. "Send for Dr. X," hays Homebody. "No, no, not for him," says the dying man feeble, at the mention of his rival's name ; " if he brought me round it would advertise him ! I prefer to die," Inquikkk : What is the extreme penalty for bigamy ?" Says the Bo&ton iW, " Two mother in-law," Thk St. Louis Schwabenuntcrstulxungsverein had a pic-nio Monday, and the test of sobriety at its close was the ability to pronounce its name without stuttering. A Mw travelling in New Hampshire and seeing a laboui or at work in a field, said, 1 other pityingly, to him : " You must have haul times, this land is rocky aud barren ?" And the labourer replied : " Yes, it is poor land ; but don't think I'm so poor as I seem. I don't own any of it." Huxdbkds aud thousands of men die annually from strong drink, We never undertake to criticise, but we do not believe that any man can die annually, annually means eveiy year, for any great length of time, unless he has a great deal of practice and experience at the businss. A Youxi; woman in the country, incensed at an egotistical young man fiom that town, said, '• If thubutuhci down in the village could buy you at the puce your acquaintances hold you at, and soil you at your own estimate of youisi'lf, lie could roth o from business on wli.it he'd mako on that single speculation in veal." A\ Alexandria lcfugee has ai lived in America. He graphically desciibos how the streets ran with blood, how hundieds of corpses were thiown into the &ea, and askb for ten cents to get a bit of .something to eat. It is nob known wether lie was an Irish or a foiest fiie " sufloier" last year. Wiiev a woman gots a rod spot on the end of her nose the world chatitably icmaiks> that l\ev blood his out ot older ; bntiust lot that red spot appear on a man's nose, and every one will declarethat they can smell whi&ky as soon aa they get within twenty feet of him. Strange, yet generally true in both cases. Ix a village in ono of the lower count) ies of Kentucky, a stiangei seeing a man looking out ot a window in the jail, asked him what he was doing thoie. He replied — " I got tho jailci to lock mo in hoie to save ino from a mob that wanted to lynch mo. You, sec stt anger, the county jail is the only asylum of liberty in these ' eic paits." A (ioou stoiy ot .1 Michigan man who recently went down to tho Indiana to buy a drove of hoisod. lie was longer than ho intended to be abbent, and failed to meet a business engagement. On being rather reproached for not being homo, he made due apology. "In c\eiy little darned town they wtaiited me to stop and bo a president of a blink !" Sir A\j>m;\\ Ai.m.m Mas famous for gi\ ing broad hints Tho. nature of them will be beat ascci Uiiicd by the follow ii>g anecdote : Sir Andiew having for soinetiinc pesteicd by an impertinent intruder, it was ono day remaikod to the haionct that thib man no longoi appeared in his company and he was asked how Lo contrived to got lid ot him. "In tiuth," haul tho haionct. "I was obliged to give the chiel .i bioad hint." "A bioad hint !" replied tho fiicnd. "I thought ho was one of tbo^e who could not take a hint." "By my faith ! but ho was forced to take it," onswcied Sir Andrew, "foi , as the follow would not go out by the door, I throw him out of the window." Lrcv Ifooci.K, in a letter from farts to a I'luladolphia pajiei, says—"! was iocontly told by an English lady a lomantio mid melancholy .stoiy relathe to the I'riuce Impcnal, She said that the luckless youth had fallen passionately in love with a joung K»i(lisli gill of .smpassmg bi'iiuty, tho daughter ot a London tradesman. His lo\o was lcturncd, but the gnl was as viitiions as she was fair, and the Empress gieatly feared that her son would do what ho threatened— namely, bestow his hand on this low -bom maiden. When his mother lemonstrated with him, he turned upon her with some home tiuths respecting the Moutijo family, and the dill'eronco in rank between heiself and his father. And so the Empress planned for him that fatal expedition with the English aimy which ended in so tragic i fashion. Among tho articles taken fiom poor boy's dead body, and brought, to his inotlici, was a picdiio in a small morocco case which lie had worn upon his breast, and which wad stained with his life blood. It was tho poi trait of tho girl that he had loved." The Er,j.crmo Limit Mama.— The year 1882 will be a memorable year, if for nothing else as the year of manias and their exposure. No more remarkable instance of mania and its collapse has ever been presented to the world than that of the of the elcctiic light business. It was only in April that tho rise in " lights " really began. On the 16th of the following month the mania had readied tho zenith of its madness. On Nov. 1 wo (MomijJ were enabled to write of it as, except in the losses it had inflicted, a. thing of the past— as having utterly collapsed. The completeness of the smash may be most easily shown by tho quotations. On May 16 Biush £4 shares 'were quoted 31. On Nov. 1 they had fallen to 10£, and to-day are marked GJ. Hammonds, £2 10a paid, on the same day were, run up to 21, fell to G in November, and to-day are 3V. The shares in the minor Companies are at a discount, and generally unmarketable • and it is clear that whatever may be the future of the light itself, nine-tenths of the existing. Companies must collapse. Where shall I buy my furniture and carpets? You cannot do better than purchase from Garlick and Carnwell, who ha\e now a very large assortment of iron bedsteds, varying in price from 16s 6d to to ten pounds, and keen 'in stock bedding ol sill sizes and kinds. Their large factory is completed, and machinery in full swing, enabling them to turn out furniture quicker and cheaper than hitherto. G. & C. alwnys,havc reacjy a lai go. variety pf drawin and 'dining-room suites. Speci.il attention is paid , to bedroom furniture, ' suitable to all classes. Great' < variety ,of carpets, Kidderminster, Brussels, , and fapestry from 2s Od per, yard. Xirio'ulem and oil cloth for halls of Manchester "poods!' Sheetings, calicoes, hollands, towelling, flannels, blankets, curtains, cretonnes, damnSk; , &c, &c. Book catalogues sent post frte. Ladies and gehtjeman about to marry will find our catalogue of great- (ujrvicrf., Gatfick. .jhm^ Gam. , we)!, Cjty Hall Arcaflo, Quecn-itrtct Auckland/,