CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1850, 15 May 1884, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

" No, no," said he, explaining ; " I wasn't really mad when the old man drove me from the house, Wit I mn»t say 1 felt put out."

A Ciit.Mr.sT pronounces unbolted flour luuder to digest than the white. This may he tine as to wheat flour, but chemists can't deny that a bolted meal is harder to digest than an unbolted one.

" Hniu y'are now ; two packages for twopence," yellerl a seedy-looking envelope pedlar in Holboni. " Here y'aie this way ; two padwnges for a penny !" liowled another envelope-pedlar, almost hustling his fellow merchant off the pavement. Women out shopping noted flic difference in prices, and boon bought out the two for a penny man. Then both pedlars dufted round the coiner, and the one who sold no envelopes divided his stock with the other, remat king with a chuckle. " It works lni'-utiiully, old Iml, don't it? '

Tin., largest si-hool in the world is said to b. 1 the Jew's Free JSehool m tk'Ms. London, It lias ;i daily attendance ot "JSOO pupils. The institution is also a ti. lining college, and noiily every Ic'icher in the behool lias been tnun ed within is walls Brides the onlinary benches, the Jewish child has not only to l-.iin tin- Soii|itiue histoiy and she plunients of religion and mobility, but h,is .\Ko to be taught to lead the Hebrew fluci.tlj, and to ti.insLite some portions, at least, of his pi ayer book and of the Hebiew Sciipfcme.

A youth who lately arrived fiom the Giecu Island is now employed in one of our leading banks performing clerical duties. He was lcccntly called to account by one of his supciior oilicers foi .in appaient error in his work. 'Jn furtlier examination, however, it traiibpui'd that there had been no eiioi on the p.irt of the new coiner, and lie was so lnfonncd by his superior oflieer, who thought he had di&couueil a mistake. A smile of satisfaction illuminated tlic face of the young Celt as lie siid, gooilhuininiiedlv, " All !— another injustice to li eland ! '— J'>_'lcs.

iSiMciuj; okDii Suvrniv.— A telegram fioni the Hague in the London St.iiidmd gives the following :— Nous Ims just- been received licicth.it Dr Shapii.i. whose name will lie remembered in connection with the otteting for sale in England ot an alleged manuscript of a pmtion of the Old Testament 1 , has corninitted suicide in Rotteidam. After the complete exposuie of the afiair — a. bnef examination of tlio manusenpt l>y tlie authoiities ot the British Museum having sufliced to show tli.it the patclimoiit for which Shapiia demanded one million pounds was a clumsy forgery— he (amc to Holland, In ing suece=;si\ely in Amsterdam and Blocmdiie, and finally in Rotterdam, where he took a loom in .1 hotel <i foitnight since Tlic attendants having noticed some daya ago that Shapna did not nialvo his appearance, the door of his apartment was forced open by the police, and his dead body found h ing on the floor, beside it being n Mx-uhatnbeied i e\ oh cr, a shot fiom m Inch had penetiated his brain, In the room wcie dKtoveied several cards bearing the add i ess of bookbelleis and .mtiquaiian agentb in London and Jeiu->alem, "md m a trunk weie several English and Hebiew lnumscripti, &c. One letter wasalso found giving unmistakaljlc sign^of mental dciangement The nntoitunate man's conduct had been very strange foi some time, and the Schiedam police arrested him lccentiy on a ehaigc of insanity. Shapiia was a natinali-jcd (ieiman, and had liib liome in •leiusalcn, whero his wife and child weie living.

Tin. Cru-iL di Tin, Vjmol. — Tl\e suggestion of a South Carolinian paper that pistols .should be taxed, md he.iwlv taxed, is fin excellent one. The wonder is that people who tiy to make the tax collector a champion of niotality and order have not pioposcd this long ago. The pistol is, almost as much as whisky, the curse of Ameiican society. It is .1 weapon "with which piohably ninetenths of the ciimos of violence aie committed, and which, more than any tiling else makes drunkards dangoious. The possession of it, too, suggests cume to thousands, if not tens ot thousands, of men every year, who, without the pistol, "would nc\cr have thought of it, 01 been tempted into it. In fact, it may be said of the icvolver, Mitli hardly any exaggeration, that it has proved to he moie than anything else, an anl to the ciiminal classes in their waifaie against society. For mill taiy purposes its "\alue is %cry small. It is only cavalry which is armed with it; and cavaliy which lclies on its pistol at close quaiturs is notoriously inefficient. For the protection ot life and property it docs little or nothing. The eases are laio, indeed, in winch honest men " get the diop " on t))ic\es, bniglais or footpads. The cases aie aw fully mutinous in w Inch they are shutdown by uiili.ins befoie they ha\e time lo diaw a weapon at nil. Muieoverthe laws against eirrying concealed weapons aic, in all the States, notoiiously liiopciative. The e\idence ot violation of them is haidly o\cr obtainable, except tlnoucjh the occuiicncc of some more soi ions eiime. Tjy far the suiest way of diminishing pibtol-cairying would be to make pistf.ls dear by higii taxation. A tax on them, too, could be easily le\ied, because it cuuld be le\ied at the factury — X. Y. Nation.

A (.ooi) "atoiy comes fiom North Cantoibury. >Some days, ago a tiamp called at one of the country stations hi the Noithern dibtiict, and timed his \ibit bo .is not to be too late for tea. After tea lie m .is i.'i\ en a good bid of stiaw, and tv the moiuing a stiong man's ijieakfast and In- tiudgod. fthoitly after hi& dep.utuie one of tlic lcgnlir hands at the station found that he had been lobbed of 1 Ls. This he icpoited to hib mates. Mho foitlnuth put up a liitlo job on the sti oiler. Two wine &ent off to catch him, which they succeeded in doing after an horn's slurp canter, and brought him luck. A sciatcli jury decided tli.it the vagabond should do seven days' work on the station, and he was carefully watched and kept at it till the term of his penalty had expned. The hands on his depar tmc &unt many jeering reinaiks after linn, but the loser of the 14s, who had gone down the load ahead unobserved, as the biid of passage came to abend hidden fiom \iew by a gorse fence spiang out suddenly and tlneatened violence unless the cash was returned, whereupon the straggler, in order to avoid a i etnm to the haul labour of the station, antied up the money, inclusive of a florin with a hole in it, which its lawful owner immediately recognised, the scamp having then a surplus of only three copper tokens remaining. In futuic loafeis, piobably, when they hear of this little joke and ascertain the name of the station alluded to, will pass it in the noon day heat, and tiy some place \vheie summary jurisdiction does not exist. CJold ix North Carolina.— -At a recent meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Professor H. Carvill Lewis exhibited some remarkable gold nuggets found in Montgomery County, N.C., forty miles east of Charlotte and two miles fiom Yadkin river. Some of the nuggets were ot great s-ize. One ot them weighed over 41b, and contained nearly £200 worth of gold. It was finer than any specimen in the collection at the U.S. Mint, and was probably one of the laigest nuggets ever found in eastern America. Many of the sjiecitnens exhibited were of nearly pure gold, of a crystalline structure, and of a fine golden yellow colour. It was stated that in the district of North Carolina whence these nuggets were taken, gold is very abundant. The largest were found in the gulleys, where they has been washed out of the decomposed rock, and it had been stated that a shovelful of dirt dug out of the hillsides anywhere in the district would pan out traces of gold. Some years ago one man took out of a hole sixteen feet square £6000 worth, of the precious metal. The quartzite containing the gold occurs in a, white olay or decomposed schist.