CLIPPINGS

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1793, 3 January 1884, Page 3

CLIPPINGS

More than 800 pilgiimnges will be made to the sanctuary of Lourdes, in France, this yenr. They will include about 900,000 people. , An, Alexandria coi respondent of the lioridon Times says no European family could remain in Egypt after the withdrawl of the Biitish troops. Protkstantism is advancing in France with a rapidity not equalled since tho expulsion of the Huguenots, whilst Rationalism is beginning to die out. Judud Fields, of the United Status Supreme Court, rules that the fact of a Chinaman being bom at Hong Kong does not constitute him a British subject. . Under the opeiation of hdmunds' Law, depriving polygamists of the suffrage, nearly 13,000 persons have been disfranchised in Utah territory. Thk militaiy system in France c\acts service of prince and peasant. Every young man (with a few exceptions of slight impoitance), on reaching twenty, must go into the army. If lie has a college degree or can pass a certain exanimation the period of service is limited to one year ; otherwise, he is a soldier for five years. Thk lightning train between Paris, Vienna, and Constantinople has pioved SO successful that a similar tiam will i shortly be started between Paris, Berlin, -. jaiitTSfc. Petersburg. Thk funeral of Tourgenieff, the Russian novelist, took place in St. Peteisburg. The procession to the cenieteiy was formed of various deputations, bearing about 200 Jwreaths, a ml tiie coffin was placed on a magnificent funcial car. The streets were lined with douse ciowds of people, who uncoveied as tho heatse. passed. Several speeches were made at the grave. MihS Rosalind H. Young is a lesidcnt of Pitcairn Island. She is a descendant of one of the mutineers of the Biitish ship Bounty. A retired sea captain, who visited the island not long ago, diaws this picture of Miss Young :—" Her father is pastor of the isl md church and teacher of the school, and she is organist and assistant teacher. She is about 2(5 years old, and weighs 20011 s , never had a shoe on her foot, and, if necessary, could swim off to a * hip four miles fiom the island md bick agun to the shore, and then go into the little chinch and play the organ nearly as well as any young lady in the States." A novel method of effecting the remo\al of a ring which has become consencted aiound a swollen fingrr, oi m any other similar situation, consists simplj- in enveloping the afflicted member, after the manner of a circular bandage, in a length of flat indiarubber biaid, such as ladies make use of for keeping their hats on the top of their heads. Ihis should be accurately applied —beginning, not close to the ring, but at the tip ot the finger. an-1 leaving no intciwils between the successive turns, so as to exert its clastic foice gradually and gently upon the tissues underneath. When the binding is complete, the hand should be held aloft in a \ertical position, and in a few minutes the swelling will be peiccptibly diminished. The In aid is then taken off, and immediately applied in the same manner, when, after another five minute*, the finger, if again rapidly uncovered, will be small enough for the l ing to be removed with ease. Prince Lons of Battcnberg has no fortune, and Piince Victoii.v of Hesse will not hi ing him a Luge dot unless the Queen makes a piovision for her granddaughter. It is therefoie intended that the young couple shall live in England, and I hear that they aieto have rooms m Reusing ton Palace fora residence — pi obably the "apartments" which the Princess Louise will vacate when she removes into those lately occupied by the Duche&s of Teck. I notice that Piince Louis has just been appointed to the very desnable beith of Lieutenant on board the royal yacht Victoii.i and Albeit. Considciing, however, that thi«-\essel is now lying dismantled in Portsmouth dockyaid, and there is not the least pio'-pect of her being leady for any service for nearly a year to come, I cannot understand why it should be neccssaiy to appoint a Lieutenant to her. It may be an ingenious device to give Prince Louis a good place, but at the same time it is a ridiculous and scandalous waste of public money, and bears all the resemblance of being a flagrant job. It would have been full time to appoint fresh officeis to • theVictoiia and Albeit when she is so far completed as to be taken out of the dockyaid. — London Faith. His Majesty, the King of Bavaria, is pasionately found of the music of nightingales. One beautiful moonlight night word was sent to his Majesty that a nightingale was singing in the palace garden. He hastened out, not daiing to believe tho leport The silvery notes, so wonderful, so beautiful, rich and full rising, falling, thrilling, and dying away like distant echoes from a flute, were filling the aii with bewitching melody. The king stood fascinated, entranced, and would haN e remained in the palace garden the livelong night, had not the biid, weary of its song, ceased its music. After waiting in vain for it to becin again the king rethed. The next night he went into the garden, Imt was doomed to disappointment. The bud wa3 silent. The third night he was more foitunate. The nightingale warbled sweeter and louder than ever, and the King was in rapture. Then for three nights it failed to be heard, and it was thought that the binl must have died or flown away to warmer skies. The king in despair, offered heavy rewards for its return, but the most diligent seaich failed to find it. On the seventh night it came again, and continued its songs, to the king's great delight. — Coin I Journal. The present President of the United States is the first since President Buchanan (who preceded Lincoln) " to live like a "' gentleman," in the ordinary conventional sense of that phrase. This is chiefly due to the fact that he is a New Yorker and of the town towny. President Lincoln, a poor Western law) er in the West's yet cruder days, probably never in his life sat at a handsomely appointed table until he came to Washington. President Giant's parents were poor and obscure, and when the war broke out he was driving hjs own produce into St Louis from a small farm he had in the neighbourhood. President Hayes is essentially Western and provincial. His wife is an uncompromising Blue Ribbonist, and ghastly indeed were the elaboiate dinneis served in her day at the White House, with nothing but tea and coffee to wash down ten courses. The representations of the Secretary of State only succeeded in obtaining a mitigation of the temperance law iv the case oi State dinners to the Diplomatic Corps, to whom, it was represented to Mrs President, a dinner was not reaHy a dinner without wine. President ■k^fjtnur however keeps London hours. Be dines at eight, and has an excellent •table and excellent wine. On a salary of §30,000 a-year he entertains much more frequently than, and, if report be true, fully as well as an illustrous personage with forty times that income who usually occupies her London palace from eight to ten times in the year. The "White House and its conservatories are maintained at the public expense, and certain allowances, the pecuniary value of the Presidential office may probably be put down at not less than $75,000. — Vanity Fair. You will do well to furnish your house from Garlick and Cranwell's. They have now the most complete Furnishing Warehouse in Auckland, furnituic to suit all classes, good strcag, *nd cheap. They have Tapestry Carpets Irom '2s 3d per yard, Brussels from 3s lid per yard. Linoleum from 3s 9d to ss, Oil Cloths from Is 6d to 4s (3d per yard, good 12 feet wide Oil Cloths at 3s 6d per yard. Immense assortment of Iron Bedsteads from Infants' Cots to 5 feet wide half-tester Bedsteads. Double iron Bedtteads from 255. 480 Bedsteads in stock to select from. Beddings of all kinds and sizes kept in readiness. Dining"* fitting, Drawing-room Furniture, and and alaigp assortment of Manchester and Furnishing Gor Is, including a lot of Cretonnes. Book Catalogues sent free to intending purchasers. Garlick and Cranwell, GUy R»U Arcade Queou-Etroet Auckland;

The Bad Boy's Bicycle.—" I should tbink pa would learn after a while that

he is too old to fool around as he did

when he was a boy,'' said the grocery man, as he got away from the boy for fear he would be scalped. " That was told him when lie wanted to try my bicycle," said the boy, as he broke out laughing, He saw me i iding the bicycle, and said he could do it as well as I could, once en get on, but he couldn't spring up on it quite as spry as he used to, and he wanted me and my chum to hold it while he got on. I told him he would get hint, but he said there couldn't no boy tell him anything about riding,, and so we got the bicycle up against the shade-tree, and and he put his feet on the treadles and told us to tuin her loose. Well, honest, I shut my eyes 'cause I didn't want to see pa get tied up in a knot. But he did. He pushed with one foot, and the bicycle turned sideways ; then he pushed with the other foot and it began to wiggle, and then he pushed with both feet and pulled ton he handles, andthe front wheel stmck an iron tence, and as pa went on top of the fence the hind wheel seemed to rear up and kirk him, and pa hung on the fence and the bycle hung to him, and they both went down on the sidewalk, the big wheel on pa's stomach, one handle up his trousers leg, the other handle down his coat collar, and the other wheel rolling around back and forth over his fingers, and he yelling to us to take it off. I never saw people tangled up the way pa and the bicycle was, and we had to take it apart and take pa' 3 (oat oft' and roll up his pants to get him out. When he got ii]), and shook lumsel to see if he was all theie. and looked at it as though he did'nt know it was loaded, and looked at me and then at my chum in a sort of a nei vous way, and looked around and scimgcd as though he expected the bicycle was going to sneak up behind him and kick him ngain : he wanted me to get the axe to break the bicycle up with, and when I laughed he was going to take me by the neck and maul the bicycle, but I icasoned him out of it. I wasn't to bian'e for his trying to gallop over an ii on picket fence with a bicycle, 'cause 1 told him he better keep oil" of it. I think if men would take advice fioui boys offener they wouldn t be s"> apt to trettheir siispendeis caught on an iion picket fence and have to be picked up in a pasket. But thcie is no use of us boys telling a grown pei son an\ thing, and by keeping still and letting them bieak their bones, we save getting' kicked. It would do some men good to be boys all their lives, then they wouldn't have to imitate. Hello, there goes the police patiol waggon, and I am going to see how it udes on the back step," and the boy went out and jumped on the hind end of the waggon, and then picked himself up out ot the mud and felt of his head where the police-

man's cub dropped on it. — Peck's Sun. Tins late issue of bonds by the Panama Canal Company was 600,000 of $100 each, all of which lias been taken No bettor t:\idence could be had of the confidence felt in the ability of M. De Lesseps to complete the gigantic undertaking than tins fact. Late advices from Panama states that the woik is being pushed forward with great energy, over 10,000 workmen being engaged in its prosecution. Meanwhile, what is being dore in the matter of the Nicaragua

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