CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1826, 20 March 1884, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

German* Judges tolerate nopleasantrics in Court. At Elborfeld a peisoii who called from tlv) gallery to the presiding Judge to lead the sentence more audibly was given three days' iniprisonmeut and led out-, of the courtroom foithwitii to serve his term. Mr E. Clarke, Q.C., M.l\, speaking at a Masonic banquet at Plymouth last January, said the benefits of the craft \\ ure nob confined to Masonry, because a good Mason was a loyal subject, a good citizen, and a faithful friend. It was not the object of Masonry to extend the number of its members, but to deepen the feeling in the initiated of charity and fiiend&hip towards all men. Cardinal M.vnnivo has issued on order that a bianch of the Catholic Total Abstinence League ef the Cioss be founded in every Catholic school, and that the man.iger of each school imiat be president and an abstainer. He has worked an extraordinary change amontf the Irish of Westminster, who, from being generally poor and thriftless, are now prosperous. A xew method of tooth-drawing has been invented by a dentist in German)'. A small square of India rubber, pierced with a cential hole, is pushed over the tooth till the upper paifc of the tooth is le.iohed. The India rubber giadually eonttaets, pulls ou the roots, and the offending tooth is finally enucleated \v ithout causing the patient any pain whatever. Four or five days are genet aliy leqiuiod to complete the opoiation. Veiy slight bleeding and a slight swelling of the gum are the only inconveniences e\peiicnced. Hi (Tnt statistics of crime in Ji eland show, for the fiisfc time since 1870, a falling oft in the number of offences of a serious kind. Since 1876 theic had been a steady increase until from 6291 the niiinber had risen to 10,600. Against thib la\ out able showing, however, is to be set the fact that the number of lighter offences, usually clashed as cases disposed of sammanly, mci eased by moic than 11,355, the total being 317,551. A \vi wvtiiy man displaying one day hi-> jevveU to a philoiophei, the latter said, "Thank you, sit , for being willing to shiic such magnificent jewels with me."' "Shaiethun w ith you, sir !" exclaimed the in in ; " what do you mean?' 1 " *Vhy, j(M allow me to lcok at them, and what moic enn 3 ou do with them join self ?' lepliedthe philosopher Soox aftei the death of the poet Wordswoith. a man met a fanner in the neighbouihood, and s-aid to him, "You have had a gloat los->." "What loss? 1 " Why, you ha\c lost the gieat poet." " Oh, ay !" .said the f.umei, lie is dead ; but ah hey no doubt t'wifc will carry on t'busme i 's, and mak it as piofitable a& lvvei it was." Johny came home fiom school the other day very much excited. " What do \ou think, pa? Joe .Stewart, one of the big bojs. had an argument w ith Hie teacher about a question m giammai." "What position did Joe take?" " Hi* last positioi. was acioss a chair, face down. "' JOuw mid Atkinson, of Boiton, says : " Fne liv ks in a cotton bale foi weeks 1 The cotton which was injuied somewhat about a 3 ear ago ago inßiddefoid. Maine, was moved to South Boston for sale. The fne bioke out again moie than once while it was at South Bo«ton beiny made ready for sale. It was then sold at auction. The file bioke out again in one paicel while it was on the cars being cat lied away, and in another parcel after it had been receiv ed at a factory where it was to be used. The latest outbreak was, I think, thirty days alter tho origi nal fiie.'" J3imiof Morw in a consecration se; inon lately, advised his hearers to be sobei and lne in pence with one another. Let no man bung disgrace on his family by giving way to the influence of drink. They belonged to a 1 ace that could boast ot gieat \ll tues, but there was one \ice that was too much indulged in — viz., diunkenness. Not that their countrymen (hank moie than the people of other nations ; but they weic ot too " quick - siheiy".i tempeiamcnt — too quick, too hot — their spirits w ci c too elastic, and not fit for dunk. Like biave men, let them say to themselves : "I will not take dunk to excess." They should know when they had enough, and be done with it— their ovei indulgence in sti on? drink showing a great want of moral courage and plucky detci initiation. Men who would £0 fearlessly to the cannon's mouth should be above indulging in drink to excess. At the last Liverpool Assizes a startling surprise awaited the people who were concerned in the sale of Betsy Wardle for a quart of beer. Betsy was sold by her husband to George Chisnal, and the pin chaser straightway carried his bargain off to church and made her his bride. She was at rested and committed for trial after three years of more or less connubial bliss with her second lord and master. At the trial Betsy's friends thought all they had to do was to prove the sale to secuie a triumphant acquittal. Then an interesting episode occuried. Mr Justice Denman demanded of Chisnal : "How did you come to many this woman?" Chisnal, somewhat oblivious, made answer, " Hoo did aw what ?" The question being repeated, he declared •'Aw bowt her " Whereupon, with his gravest judicial air, His Loidship remaiked, "You hive committed bigamy youisclf. Everyone has committed bigamy in this case." Less Mith the view of punishment than with the desire of impressing upon th' 1 pai ties that they must not go about selling their wives in this manner, His Loidship sentenced Betsy to a week's imprisonment. — Sheffield Telegraph. Ix reference to the recent tiialat the Cential Club, Wellington, of mutton which had made theiound voyage in a ftozen state, a member of the club vviites to the Lyttelton Times a« follows :— "The sheep presented by Captain Rose furnished the mutton ou the lunch table for two successive days. On the hrsfc, the saddle was served ; it appealed to be slightly overdone, but it was beautifully tender, and if there was a slight deficiency 111 Hay our I think the cooking fully accounted fur it The fat had a somewhat tallowy look, but I failed to detect any taste of the kind in it. lam convinced that had the meat been served in the ordinary uay, without any intimation of its having boon frozen, the universal opinion would have been that it was a particulaily piime joint. I liked it so well that on the day following I lunched from a roast leg. This was excellently cooked, and was in every wa} r equal to the best mutton I ever tasted. It was much better than the previous day's saddle, and I did not hear two opinions expressed about it. Tender, juicy, and of iine flavour, it was, lam sure, quite as good as under tho most favourable circumstances it would have been had it been cooked some five months before, without even enteiing a freezing chamber. As to whether New Zealand mutton can compete in any way with English mutton, I am not able to express an opinion, but that it does not deteriorate in quality by the process of freezing, I am satisfied." Rats and Mice. —lf you wish to de stroy them get a packet of Hit r.'s Magfc Vi'rmin Kir 1 KR in packets, Od, Od, and Is, to be obtained of all storekeepers, or from T. B. Hu.L by enclosing an extia stamp. One Shilling. — Francis J. Shortts' Popular Art Union. — Ten first-class, Oil Paint- 1 ings by celebrated artist-*. 5000 tickets at Is. The prices are magnificent and costly. Country subscribers sending stamps or otherwise will h.ive tickets by return post. Enclose stamped envelope for reply. — Fkancjs J. Shoktt, 140, Queen-street, Auckland. — FAdvt.] Life in the Bush— Then and Now. — It is generally supposed that in the bush we have to put up with many discomforts and privations in the shape oi food Formerly it was so, but now, thanks to T. B. Htll, who has himself dwelt in the bush, if food does consist chiefly of tinned ran ars his Colonial Sauce gives to them a most delectable flavour, making them as iWell of the plainest food most enjoyable, and instead as hard biscuits and indigestible damper his Improved Colonial Baking Powder makes the very best bread, scones, cakes, and pastry far superior and more wholesome than' yeast or eavcp, Sold by all storekeeper! who can obUrn it from any »crch*nt in Au,cltf»nd.