CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2004, 12 May 1885, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

'I UK (lei line ot Rome \\<n not a deelino to take a drink ; but the fall indicated that it had had enough. A iiiiwtf co\eied with hiids ilocs not sniff, hut the fellow who has to pay for it whistles when til* bill conns in Irif-Mid tint Kissing cuics freckles; hut, -.i\*.in exchuige, every veil headed ljii! in the eountiy knows bcttei Lviu.i- h't .lie now bo fashionable among yinHeiwn of style that Chicago illicit » ,u t, wealing their sisters' shoes A uuY s iy«i, in hi"* composition, that '■onions a ie the vegetable tli.it makes you sick when you don't eat them jourself. ' "Ya'as," siid Snooks, "I've hetn living on an exclusively M'getable diet down in thu country — nothing but eggs and milk, you know." — Chicago Tiibune. Kaimioad man to disappointed ofhYe holder : "Dont fret about that office and I'll try and get a horse-car named after you." Fasihov's latest fieak in Paiis is a fancy ball in which each lady is dressed as a flow or — violets, lillies, roses, bluebells and niaiigolds. I.\ Germany last year 23 cigarette factories turned out 187,000,000 cigarettes, and the output of the French cigarette factories was 600,000,000. Anotiikk party of French engineers has left for Tunis for the purpose of making further surveys in regaid to the project of creating an inland sea in the African desert, in connection w ith the great marsh lakes of Southern Tunis. Ladies who prefer home-made gar ments may find a " pointer" vi the fact that, in 1884, 1,500,000 cats were killed for their skins, which are superior, for lining purposes, to rat, squirrel, or labbit fur. With this hint they can easily get up their own fur-lined circulais. WoKhlXfj hours throughout Fiance are raiely under twelve per day, while in Germany they range from thirteen to sixteen, and this without deductions foi Sundays and holidays. A recent Fienoh Government Commission reported against shortening the houis of labour. Mistress (to servant who has spilbd the contents of her ink bottle on the carpet): "Mercy, Mary! What have you done? You've done a pietty piece of work, haven't you?" — Mary "Ye liny ■well say that, Missus Biown, for didn't Oi p.iy twinty five cents for that same ink this very afternoon?' — Booton Transcript. Ay American gentleman of the name of Smith (vuh Directory) has geneiously proposed to Prince Li Hung Chang to collect all the taxes of the Empire, and make all the purchases, ior and in consideration of the trifling sum of 5 per cent, on the gross amount. This would, in all probability, have been a fiist i.itc thing for China, and there can be no doubt that theie were millions in it for Smith 1 . China, however, has declined with th.mks, and the 'Melicau man's philanthropic intentions are defeated It is stated that the two sisters of General Gordon, who reside at ."Southampton, luve refused to receive any public grant or pension in recognition of the national services of their late brother, who was unmarried. On behalf of tho Government Mr Gladstone has offered to secure to these ladies an annual allowance, and in order to spare their feelings had furthermore offered to see that the annuity was granted without the necessity of asking it from Parliament, but the ofler was declined. — Court Circular. A ki>k marble portrait statue of a Roman lady has just been discovered, near the Scala Santa, at Koine It is sculptured in spotless Parian marble of the raiest quality. The right hand, which was raised, is unfortunately want ing, and the hosp and the tips of both g.xat toes have been bruised ; but with these exceptions it is peifeet, and the surface of the maible, uninjuied by oorrosio'i, is almost as pure as the day on which it left the seulptot'a studio. A Greek inscription on the plinth states that it was erected to an mti lligent mother-in-law by her son in-law, Kuhouleon. L\st year theic were in the city of New Voik 11,803 m.iriiagcs Ot these ten wero of colouud men to white women, ami one of a coloiued woman to a white man. Two men were mamed for the fifth time, three men and two women for the fourth, 100 men and 41 women for the third, and 1,545 widowers uid 1.210 widows of the first power lonian led. Eleven bridegrooms and one bride were betweeu seventy and eighty years of age, 10 bridegrooms and two brides between sixty-five and seventy, and 59 bridegrooms and six budes between sixty and sixty-five. The number of men who mat tied under twenty was 218, that of women 2,01!). The number of men who married between twenty ami twenty-five years of age was 4,173, of women 6,031 ; 3,793 men and 2,170 women married between twenty five and thiity years of age. O' Donovan Rossa. — The hiUmnigrant of Feb. 27 publishes the following manifesto ;—"I; — "I have been stiuck Ly the h.ind of an English emissary. It is no fault of England if I am not lying in my tomb ; she had the intention of accomplishing the murder, but the agent to whom the task was assigned has destioyed hei hopes. This is not the first tune that England has attemped my life, and it will probably not bo the last. But so long as Heaven grants me the strength to preach Irish independence to my unfoitunate fellow citizens, I will acoinplish my duty with the same energy and devotion as in the past. I have not, and never had the slightest intention of fomenting war in the free land of America, but I can, without neglecting the gratitude and the respect 1 owe to the great people who Krant me hospitality, sustain those who struggle for us. That national spirit which was long dormant, w hen as a young man I revolted against the tyianny of England, is now awakened in Ireland. To-day tho nation rises and imploies the aid of her exiled children. Can I lefuse the help which I can give, and the encouragement which I can give, and the encouragement which I can bend acioas the sea, to the noble and unfortunate people which respond to the voice of liberty ? No ; the bullet of the assassin will not frighten me. Were I to fall in the struggle, under the blows of a ruffian in the pay of England, I will die with the conscience that I fulfilled my duty, and with the hope that my assassin will meet with a cruel anil sanguinary punishment. — o' Donovan* Rossa."

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