THE FRENCH PREMIER.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1714, 30 June 1883, Page 4

THE FRENCH PREMIER.

M. JniiKh Fkuky must have been born with a lucky caul upon Iris head, writes the Paris couea|jondent of the yuv I'oik 'Tribune. He is now one of the most prominent men in the Chamber, although not by any moans the greatest, and if his admirers are to be credited has come into the Parliamentary heritage of Gambutta. Between tliu present Mnristiy and that of Nov. 10 there is, it is said, little rtifFeience. lam not of this opinion. It ia like the play ot Hamlet minus Hamlet's role. Le ijiand Mtintlcti, sum, Ie yxoid Muihtrc, ia what it should be called. Instead of Gambetta, Feny clueets it. But it his one negathe vii tuc. It does not eompnso M. Kouvier. The new Premier lias many qualities v hich will be of service to him in guiding a Cabinet. He has a lot of "go," high spiiits, and tenacity, and abuse and l.iillery no more aflect linn than water alFects a duck's back. He is, in a woid, thick-skinned, but not in the most evil sense of the term, and he hat> a happy faculty of coming to the top and floating when people are thinking he has been for ever submerged. M Ferry is hated by the Cleiicals and Kochefort. The foimer will not paidon him for having executed the decrees when the .Senate rejected Article 7 of his Public lubtruction Bill. His whiskers have been for years a .standing joke. They are trimmed like those of a cafe waiter. Gambetta never could bear to look at them. I Mas told that M Challemel-Lacour, who is artistic, will lose his temper every time ho sees those much laughed at toltlettv uhiskcis. M Ferry is thought to be young. He is on the shady side of 50. But in this country people mistrust a political man before he is either bald or grey. The Premier is neither. He has thick hair and he uses dye. This artifice is pardonable, seeing that Madame Jules Ferry is not mote than '20. Concerning his oratorical talents there is heat in his style. He is often moved, but rarely carries away those who listen to him beyond the point of giving him their votes. It was he who invented the Ivroutnir fiction, which was the pretext for the Tunis expedition. He could never have believed in it, but he appeared as if he did. M. J111133 Ferry is amiable and honourable in his private life, and ia an obliging friend. His wonderful success has not puffed him up. In one reapect the Republic owes more to him than to any other living political man. It was he who reformed tlie Department of Public Instruction , and a&sured to all the children of the poor a good sound education.

Tnr, wife of a prominent merchant (Marion 1'oc) of < h.ittanooga, IVnnesce, tjavu bnth tv a child on the l!)th March ■weighing only lUb. It is 11 In. lout;, and no portion of the body is more than Gin in circumference. The head is no - larger than an English walnut, and the hand is the size of a three-penny piece. The child is perfectly formed, and has good lungs. llapii) as lias been the increase of population in the United States (obsei yes the St. Jama, Gazette), the increase of the deaf, dumb, blind, and insane has been more rapid still. The figures of all those thus afllicted arc said to have risen from 65.451 in IOGO t098,454 in IS7O, and from that at a bound to 2.~> 1, G98 in ISBO. If the late of the last ten yeais is kept up, the number of Americans in possession of all their facilities a century hence, will be few and far between. Ax aged blacksmith in a Yorkshire town died a fortnight ago in a hovel outside the village of Well, and lying on an upper beam of the hovel was found a sum of £^500, while in an old chest weie mortgage deeds for several hundred pounds additional. The mibor had been missed from his f>hop for tu\ er<il days, when a search was instituted, and he wa«* found dead in bed. Ho hadno relatives, un 1 lyiny the entire estate, therefore, goes to the Crown.

Rats and Mice.— lf you wish to detroy them get a packet of Tin t.'s Magic Yi'rmjn Xii U'R in packets, (id, M, and Is, to be obtained of all storekeeper, or from T. B. Hiil by enclosing an e\tra stamp.

Like ix tiik Bush— Tuex and Now. — It is generally supposed that in the bush we have to put up with many discomforts an'd privations in the shape of food. Formerly it was so, but now, thanks to T. B. Him., who has himself dwelt in the bush, if food does consist chiefly of tinned moats his Coiomai. hAuut gives to them a most delectable fl.i\ our, making them as well as the plainest food most enjoyable, and instead of hard biscuits and indigestible damper his Imfrovkd Coio.vtAL Baking Powdi'r makes the very best brc.id, sroncs, cikcs, and pastry far superior and more wholesome than ye.ist or leaven. Sold by all storekeepers who can obain it from any merchant in Auckland. You will do well to furnish your house from Garlick and Cranwell's. They have now the most complete Furnishing Warehouse in Auckland, furniture to suit all classes, good strong, and cheap. They have Tapestry Carpets from 2s 3d per yard, .Brussels from 3s lid per yard, Linoleum from 3s 9d to 6s, Oil Cloths from Is 0d to 4s 6d per yard, good 12 feet wide Oil Cloths at 3s Oa per yard. Immense assortment of'lron Bedsteads' from Infants' Cots to 6 feet ! wide' half-tester Bedsteads. Double iron Bedheads from 28s. 480 Brdstcads in stock to,select, : from. .^JjddinifSO^aU kinds and ( sizes kept, in readinrssV '"Dining, Sitting, Drawing-room Bur- ■ nitur'e, ih(l and a large assortment of Manchester •' and Furnishing Goods, including a lot of . Cretonnes.' Book^Cat ßogues sent free to in- '| tending purchasers,' Garlick and Cran^clJ, , CUy HnU Arcade, Quccn-f treet, Auckland; * '