CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1866, 21 June 1884, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

It is almost a certainty that Elias Lnycock vrtl! have another race against Hanlan on the Parramatta. 1 A rupture is threatened by Servia of ' fridndly relations with Bulgaria. The Russian Qovernment thieatens to prohibit the custom of having Christinas trees, because it hastens' the devastation of the forests through the destruction of the young fir trees. The Emperor of Germany, now in his S.Sth year, is not the only oldest inhabitS, ktii, On his hunting trips he fiequcntlj meets some hale old pensioner who fought in the war of liberation, cr inarched against the Fiench at Waterloo. The severe military discipline of Prussia does not seem to shorten the lives of her .subjects. The machines for making carpet-tacks are ran at fie rate of about 230 revolutions per minute. The shoe-nail machines, for cutting heidless shoe-nails, aie run at about 5)0 revolutions per minute, and cut from three to%e nails at each levolu tion. W. Fellows, Cleveland, Ohio, after experimenting for two years, claims to have succeeded in inventing a way to take instantaneous and absolutely permanent photographs upon anything having a smooth surface by the action of electricity. The expence is less than one cent for each pictuie. If all that is here claimed is true, this invention will revolutionise photography. TiiEsecond pait of the illustrations of Browning's poems, just published for the Browning Society by Messrs Trubner and Co., contains a photogiavure by Dawson of the painting in the Pitti Palace which gave rise so the " Andrea del Sarto," and which is commonly supposed to represent the artist pleading with his wife. The Woodlmrytype engravings from Fradelle's photogiaph of Mr Browning himself are excellent both for execution and likeness. As yet no one can tell why it is that - the most substantial pair of stairs will, creak whenever a fellow tries to climb them noiselessly late at night : but, thank goodness, there is an aveiage of ten philosopheis born every day, and darkness will be dispelled some time. " Mother sent me," said a little girl to a neighbour, "to ask you to coir.o and take tea with her this evening." 11 Did she say what time, my dear ?" 11 No, ma'am, she only said she would ask you and then the tiling would be off her mind ; that was all she said." • Can you tell me what sort of weather we may expect this month ?' wiote a farmer to the editor of his countiy paper, and the editor replied as follows : • It is my belief that the weather next month will be very like your subsciiption bill.' The farmer wondered for an hour what the editor was dnving at, when he happened to think of the word 'unsettled.' He sent a post-office order. 11 Did you observe that woman *■" said a gentleman to his companion, as a sharpfeatured female swept laughing by them. The friend nodded to indicate that lie had observed her. " Well, lam indebted to her for the chief happiness of my life." " Indeed ! I can imagine the gratitude yon feel towards her." ••No, you can't ; only her piesent husband can do that. Ten ycais ago I asked her for her hand in marriage, and she refused me." A good story is told at the expense of a young lawyer, lie was \eiy anxious to defend a Chinaman in the police couit against the charge of petty thieving. Having assumed that position, what was his astonishment to find Ins client using a handkerchief with his own (the lawyer's) name upon it. " Uncli: u hen sis sings in the clioir on Sunday ninghte, why docs slic go behind " the oigan and taste the tenoi'ii moustache ?" " Oh, don't bother me, Bonny ; I suppose they hay c to do it to find out if they are in time." A rkcknt return gives the cost of the Tichboine piosccution as i!(i0,074. Of this sum over £10,000 weic spent in printing and stationary, and ncaily £4000 for shorthand notes. The lawyer's had no difficulty in accounting for the lest. Some Chinamen at Caiins, Queensland, ■whilst fishing in the bay tow aids the mouth of the Baiion River, recently captured in their nets a gigantic swoidfibh, measui ing 26ft. f lorn point of swoid to! tail, and estimated to weigh nearly a ton. "It was pitched without," said a clergyman having Noah's Aik for his theme, and an old base ball plajer, who, had been slumbering, awoke with a stait and yelkd " foul." A uommunic \tiov to thcP.ii is Academy of Sciences shows, fiom some experiments made on dog", that model ate quantities of cofFee always inciease the pioccss of nutiition and the re^piiatoiy movements. Doses too large pioduco letaulation of the heart and diminution of the mitiitivc process. PtKt'i' Li,w is, the Melbourne ciicket hero of last season, seemed three tiopliies ; one for the best batting average (00*32), one for wicket keeping, and ODe for the highest scoie (237). Lewis is now 20 yeais of age, slight, lias been scoiing with ci edit to his club since ho Mas 14 years of age, Experts say lie has successfully acquired the gtaud &eciet of timing the ball, and is most patient in his defence. He would have foi mcd one of the team now visiting England had he been constitutionally fit. INCIDKMMS Tilt Lll'L OFTIIEDIJIvi: OF Aljjvny. — The young PiinccLeopold was not yet nine yeais old when he loat Ins father. A soirowful little fiugrc, in Highland diess, he appealed at the funeral in St (Jeorgo's Chapel, holding his oldest hi othoL's hand, and Ins boyish grief was touching to sec. After this he and his youngest sister, the Piinccss Beatrice, became the Queen's constant companions ; and it may be said that their youth and helplessness were a consolation to her Majesty in her bereavement, since for the sake of these two little ones, she was obliged to rouse herself and take &uch an interest in lifp as would not have been possible if all her child rcn had been of an age to take cai c of themselves. Deeply as Piince Leopold mourned over the death of his father — seeming to undo stand, with more than a child's sagacity, the full extent of the loss which he and his brother and sisters had suffered he had a natuial cheerfulness of disposition which icgained the mastery over him at the proper time. When ho was confined to his room he liked to hear music and poetry, to have dogs and birds lound him, and to watch games in which be could not join. When he was able to move about his gaiety was often exuberant, and found vent in schoolboy pranks. The stoiy goes that at the time of the Piince of Wales' wedding he got into sad disgrace for shearing off the tails of the military coatee worn by his little nephew, tlie Crown Prince of Prussia's son. That small loyal highness took thejoke in bad pait, for it was his first uniform which he was going to sport at the wedding, but when the damage had been repaiied with a needle and thread his contrite uncle apologised with such good grace for the mischief that forgiveness was graciously extended. It was about this time Piince Leopold, being out walking one day near Windsor, was accosted by a beggar woman. He had' no money with him and so gave her tup , valuable brooch which fastened his plaid. His attendants , objected, and wanted to ransom the brooch for half-a-crown'j but this the "prince would not allpw. "The Queen sbairbuy it back," he[said, "she will know what, ought to bejiy^n, apd-Bhe will say I did ri&htly." Tins Hfttje? trait' .pa'ifii^ the^.ctiaracter of thepbby. Ws£. 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