THE SCENT OF A FLOWER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2005, 14 May 1885, Page 4

THE SCENT OF A FLOWER.

The scent of a flower is a wonderful thing ! It plays round '.he heait like the zephyrs of ".pi ing: So subtle, so .soft, so resistless its power, No momuchy mles hko the beent of a ti nver. Some odours so blend with past happier ye.xis They move us hko melodies breathing thioiigh tears ; Foi they bring back the faces and forms th.it aie cold, And u alks in the w ild woods "mid sunsets „f gold. A fragiance exhales from a flower that I know, (Dear pledge of a love in the s\\ eet long ago) When tastes were imne simple, and puiei our ple.isuiu«., And gifts of fieah blossoms woro holiest tieabiues. One eve when the dew on the leue-- ohfcteied bright, He pi offered the prize with a tender "Good Night ;" And my spiut grew f.unt with ecstatic emotion, For I felt in th it flower lay a life-long devotion. He i . gone — yet the scent of that dr-hcatc flow or Still holds me with all the old pa&sionate power ; And oft iu\ oick h«,.u-t would lie down iv rf'"-'; ir I I'll, tiiac nmcy diMue ".ncJt" m_> ,iam . pi.»\Pi. " CoiT-ider the lilies."' Lord grant v* to oe ]{j tlu lkid .md the garden, brought neaier V, Thee ; To read in sweet blossoms Thy goodness and power, And an infinite love in the scent of a flowei. — JaneC. Simpson, uitheQuivci foi Match.

Two members of the police force entered a subuiban hotel last Sunday evening (<-a>s the Dnnedin Star) to ascertain how the povisions of the Licensing Act were being attended to. Imagine their sm pi ise at finding the licensee and the Immaid engaged in reading the Family Bible. Their retreat from such a serene scene was aa hasty and cautious as their approach. A Lon don paper says : — A few days ago a detective anived in Liveipool fiom the north of England inseaich of a young lady belonging to a w ealthy family, who had tloped w ith a grocei s assistant. After a long search the pair were found in a lodging-house, having exhausted all their means. The lady's guardian was sent fm, but the young lady lefused to listen to his entieaties, and would not abandon her lo\er. It was ultimately decided that tl»3 pair should be manied, and the ceremony was performed. The lady, who is 19 years old, comes into a foitune when of age. Tiii- Mahdi's Miut\ry Rknophces — The Mahdi's military resomces include 15,.")00 Egyptian Regulars, who were diiginallj taken pii^oners or ileseitod to the Mahdi'b camp It is not known, even at English Headouaters in the Soudan, how many native warnois hate joined Mohammed Achmed, but lie posseses armaments for an almost unlimited number Besides the arms and equipments of Hicks aod Baker Pashas' forces which fell into the hands of the enemy, the lat er has an enormous quantity of provisions and ammunition, which the Egyptian Government had stoied in Seiiaar, Koidofau, and Fachoda. As far back as two years aco the Egyptian authorities at Cairo admitted that the Mahch had captuied 90 field-guns, 1.1,000 Kemington riQies, and 3,000,000 caitndces. Since then thegairisonsoi Beiber, Shendy, and Khartoum have capitulated. At Khartoum also the Mnhdi found a vast quantity of ammunition and 0000 to (JOOO negro tioops, well aimed The rebel army is also copiously supplied with siege artillery. Both Sir Chailes Wilson's and Lord Charles Bedford's steamers were fired upon by heavy riverain batteries. Theie are a large number of Turkish and Aiab otticcis with the Malidi. The black rcci nits are di tiled by fugitives from Aiabi'.s army, and the Mahdi's aitillery is worked by Tinki^i Topskis, who aie held to be the best marksmen in the world. Thf French fl.ig again floats over Straalnrg. This fact does not mean that the lost provinces have been restoi ed to the Ficnch people. It would appeal that a dyer of Strasburg succeeded in capturing some of the storks, which it is well known, are the pride of the town He forthwith dyed the under part of the wings of the birds — the one wing red, the other blue, leaving the body to form the w liite or central portion of the Frencli tri-color (lac. This done, the birds were at once restored to freedom, and as they spread out their wings to regain their roo-ifs they display to all tho colors of France. The Geiman authoiities at fiist proposed to shoot these standaid -bearers : but ultimately, fearing still further to alienate the sympathies of the Strasburg population, they determined to tiust to time and weather for the obliteiation of this tuken oi the French preferences of the annexed province. A Famoi h Hand at Whist Beaton. — Richaid A. Pioctor tells how easy it is to be disastiously beaten at whist even when a peison holds a lemarkably strong hand : Theie is that famous hand in which the Duke of Cumberland held ace, king, queen, and Knave in one plain suit ; ace, king queen in nnothtr ; ace, king in the third ; while in tiumps he held king, knave, nine and beven. Yet, with tins perfectly magnificent hand and the lead (leading almost quite conect) he did not make a single trick. This seems incredible, but when the hands are supplied the solution of the problem will be readily seen. The four trumps lying just over those held by the Duke of Cumberland, viz., the ace, queen, ten and eight were on his left, with nine diamonds, while on his right were five small tiumps. He led a trump, which was taken on his left and a diamond led— tiuniped on his light. Another tiump was led through him, which was similarly taken and another 1 diamond led, which was also trumped on his right. Another trump led through the duke caused his last trump but one to fall. Tht last was then extracted by tho player on his left. The duke had now no diamonds, that being the suit of which he had oiily held the ace and king. Then the diamonds on his left were as good aa trumps, and made all the leinainnig tricks.

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