CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1980, 17 March 1885, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

A cvi ioo w RAPiM v— Tin <li\ do_'Si.leiU Ai.ciir.is:[ui> Tki mn. of Dublin, just WMgiud. Ins u[» Ins it tiling allow .met' of €2100 Tip IJojnl Couits of Justice (the now Law Couit-,) air now lit with tin clectin; light. 'I'll i; short smicc sy>ttMii is causriL 1 mat Led din.inut'on in tin* death late (f tin liiiliii<i Aimy Pu*r, BntT, of the Fumicli Mmistiy, recently delated at Ljons that Fiance " must colonise or peiish." Twi-lA'K people died fiom delirium tH'nii»ns in 18S4 in Now Zealand Amkkic iv has 120,000 miUs of rail toad, and construction is going on there at the iafe of 14,000 miles a yeai. Nothimj is more obnoxious than pant, e-peoidlyif ynu aie trjing to move a t-a}e and the cmfc happens to got on youi side. How to combine business with pleasure was shown by a placard in Chicago election day ;-VOTE FIRST ! Then Come I'pstairs and Get Your Tj-etii Pulled. Some >ne says women live longer than men. This is undoubtedly so. We knew a charming young actress who was, on the stage forty years ajyo, and she is only thirty-two now. ' Pat, have you any prairies in Ireland like we have in Illinois ?' 'To be shoor we have. Didn't yez iver hear of Tippeiary ?' A Dying cabman being asked by the minister who came to cousole him if he had ever been to chnrch replied, 'No but I've druv lots of folks thete.' A Congressman shouted in his speech — ' We must return to the food of our fathers. And what was it, I ask?' A deep voice across the hall replied — ' Thirties !" Snt Archibald Campbell, of Blythswood, Bart., has been elected Giand Master of Fiecmasans foi Scotland. He succeeds the Earl of Mar and Kellie. The number of passengers who travelled by rail in 1883 wa53,000,000,000, or more than two journeys for e\ery person on the earth. Fraxk Yi/etklly, the newspaper correspondent supposed to be tnurdeted in the Hicks Pasha affair, is said to heat Obeid, and it is hoped he may still escape. Mrs Weldon, of lunatic asylum and libel suit fame, has just hit the Parisian ' Figaro " for £300 damages. The " Figaro " is noted for its gossip. • The rumour gets stronger and stronger that Mr Gladstone is to accept a peeiage when the Redistribution Bill and otner matteis are safely through. 1 No; ' said George Henry, ' I didn't go there to court the girl, only eall< d in occasionally to pass the time, you know ; but first thing I knew they had me up for breach of promise, and &o, you see I went to com t at last.' Howard Kino tells an anecdote of Carlyle. Mullock called on the old Scotchman and let Imnaelf loo>e, talking Cai lyle almost to death. Cai lyle listem d impel turbably, invited him to tea, and had him to smoke in the library afterwards . When at last the youthful sage thought rr .per to take his leaf, C.uljlc accompanied him to the door and said , ' Well, good-bye, I've received ye kindly because I knew your mother, but I ne\er want to set my pyes on ye again !' The Australasian Dominion I.—With1 .— With reference to the fact that the Australasian Dominion, so far as it has been yet formed, is the only instance in all histoiy of any nation being, as it hcic, formed on a basis of peace, the following lines have been circulating in MS. We give them here as likely to interest Austia lians. Not mid tho thunder of the battle gnus, Not on the red field of an Empire's wiatli, Hose to a nation Australasia's sons*, Who ticad tho gieatncss industiy's pme path ! Behold a pooplp thro' whose annals runs No damning stain of falsehood, force, and ft and, Whns" -ccptie is the plough-share — not the swoi dWluiii 1 glory li\e-> in harvest-ripening suns. Whew, in id the records of old Rome oi ( i i coco, Glo wb Mich a tale ? Thoucan'st not answer, Tune. ! Hei shield unsullied by a single crime, Her wealth of gold and still more gulden fleece, Forth stands "Australia, in her birth sublime — The only nation from the womb of Peace ' These lines are from the pen of Mr Percy Bushel, who wrote, some time since, an elaborate monograph on Australia's food-producing capacity in Mr Proctor's well known magazine — Knowledge. — European Mail. Looking at an invention in the light of Tennyson's piopheey about aerial navies grappling in the central blue, the Balloon Society might fairly plead that it was within its legitimate boundaries w hen discussing the naval warfare of the future. But the topic which it treated was not overhead but submarine waifare, upon which the society has at least the qualification of being as much up in a balloon as other people. The invention, desci ibed by the lecturer, a Mr Middleton, was sutiiciently formidable to attract the attention not merely of aeronauts, but even of the Admiralty itself:— "The boat invented by him was of the eijrar shape, not unlike the Whitehead torpedo. Its peculiarity was its power of can \ ing men below water. The boat could be propelled without funnels, without either steam or electricity, and the "conning tower" is above water. When within gunshot of an enemy's ironclad it could be sunk to any distance below the surface, and guided by the electiic light could be brought within thirty yards or less of the ironclad, at which range a percussion shell filed from the submarine boat could knock a hole of several fert in the ironclad, too large for any pump to remedy, and sufficient to sink it." If Air Middleton is as good as his word, says on exchange, the days of nonchds are numbered. But what is his motor ? SmSmrni, Wilson, of Hughenden, hascontributed to "England"alongarticle in which he recapitulates the steps taken by the colonies to defend themselves against French and German aggression in the Pacific. He does not blame German statesmen for providing an outlet for their surplus population, but prefers rather to look forward to the gloi ious futnie which awaits the British race if only they remain united. In another century they will number more than (iOO millions, and in 200 years over 4,000 millions of people, or "nearly four times the present population of the globe." "With such a destiny to look forward to," observes Sir .Samuel, " our statesmen .lie not woithy of th 1 } name, and our ('arliament no better than a parish vestry, if they do not. as tine patriots, lay aside all party feeling and join in framing a measure which will permanently unite under an Imperial Federal Government, on fully representative and equal terms, all the distant and far separated portions of Her Majesty's dominions. Then will grow up such an Empire as the world has never yet known, peopled by a race which has no equal. A statesman who has been instrumental in bringing about such a union will need no orders, stais, or titles to keep green the memory of his name for all time, and to all prosterity." The People Want Proof. Thero is no medicine pi escribed by physicians or cold by Diuggists, that can les such e\idence of its success and superior virtue as Boschee's German Syrup for severe Coughs, Colds settled on the breast, Consumption, or any disease of the Throat and Lungs. Any person afflicted, can get a sample bottle for 6d and try its superior effect before buying the rpqular size at 3s 6d. Its wonderful cures are astonishing e\ cry one that uses it. Threo doses will relieve any case If you have a Cough or Cold that will not yield to other lemedies try German Syrup and you will be surprised at the result. It has cured many cases of so-called Consumption which doctors had given up. It is sold by all Druggist! in the Civilized World.