PRIMR0SE DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2019, 16 June 1885, Page 3

PRIMROSE DAY.

Tick Whitehall Review published tlic following lines on the occasion ot the antuveisary of the death of Loid Be iconslield (Pnmiobc Day, 19th Apul.) On the (jiic&tion of the \alue of the composition as a atticism on the Gladstone Government nothing need be saul :— Aiinthcr ye.v- has spent its sands And piiniro.se stais ot yellow (lame Bl.i/c, in remembrance of thy name, On English breasts, in English hands Dead champion of an Empire's cieed, Our Empire crumbles to dec.iy, And England bows in shame to-day, To ndeis of a baser breed. Fiom yondei desert, where the blood Of (t<>i don's licait for vengeinee cues ; Fiom .ill the soldieis' gr.ues th.it 11-e Uosidos the Nile's, rebellious flood ; Viom d\-tant Afghan p.\b«es>, whcio The Russian wiltme wings its flight Though dnikness to the land of light, And finds the face of India fair ; From Hes of Australasian seas, Whci c staves of ( lei man standard* S" in X Fiom English eaitli, and pioudly fling Thcii eagles on an Englmh bieexe ; Kioin ovciy spot wheie focmen bia\e A mined empne'.s wrath, and .spuin Her traitor statesmen, patriot's turn, To weep b->ides thy patriot gia\e Foi England's ptieitne-NS now the ghost Of what it was while thou weitheie ; And hold tho-.e yellow blossoms dear -Vs euiblenis of the lou d .md loat.

Um-kelim. Bo> : " Better come away fiom that liio." Augustus St. John Browne (a bow-legged dude with tight trousers) :"Aw ! Why ? ' Unfeeling Hoy: "It's warping yer all out ot shape." A whimsical incident occurred in a theatre wheic the leading member of the company was celebrat"d for his niagmfieant physique. One night he was enacting Virginius, and his mother, who had never been iv a theatre in her life, happened on the occasion to be in the boxes. Fresh fiom her nati\c \idage, she was somewhat bewildcied with the novelty of the scene. When her son appeared, she was amazed at the giandeur of his presence in fleshings, sandals, and toga. His appearancecaused a great deal of enthusiastic ap plausc. When he had subsided, the proud mother, unable, to icstrain hci • self, and to the astonishment of all around her, said, " I'm so glad you like him He's my son." Thereupon tho mother became the centre of atti action, and one minuter exclaimed, " Well, mvlam, you may well be pioud of join son, for he looks as noble as a Roman." " All," sighed the poor old lady in reply, " I didn't want him to be a Roman. He Would have looked splendid as a policeman." Tm. Lord Ckavcru.orsiih* or Km. i vnd. — The London correspondent of the Age statos, that hints are tlwown out of the approaching resignation of Loid Selborne. Should" lie persist in resigning, Sir William Harcourt will, it is pretty ceitain, be his successor. That wily politician longs for the prestige and prerogatives of t!:e Lord Chancellorship, whilst Sir Henry James, like Loid Brougham formerly, prefers political rather than purely legal advancement. Ho will, therefore, be only too gl.id to take on himself Sir William's disc.uded mantle at the Home OHice. It lias always been understood that Loid Colo lidgehad the pre-emption of the woolsack, but certain levelations which his would- be son-in-law (Mr Adams) has in pickle for him at the forthcoming trial of the case which the former \a now bi inging against the Lord Chief Justice in person, are said to have decided the Govei n ment to— as they politely style it—postpone his claims. On March 20th an uniehearsed scene took place at Saiigei's Amphitheatie, London. In the tableau entitled " The Wells," a terrible battle is fought be tween the household troops and the Arabs. An Aiab chief who was liding a beautiful pure white Arabian steed became so pressed in reality by a few of the English Guards that, instead of mounting the rocky heights winch abound in this scen.e, he backed and fell back with a crash into the oichestra, wlieie both horse and rider lay for a moment apparently stunned. It was found that both horse and lider had not sustained the slightest injury, and no damage was done except the smashing of a few violin cases. The spirited leader, Mr Sidney Davis, .struck up the " See Saw " waltz, and the performance proceeded, horse and rider appealing in the final scene, Khartoum. Ohtgin of Beks' Cklls.— Dr. Donhofl urges objections to the views of BufTon, carried further by Mullenhofl, that bees' cells are due to pressiuo, pointing out that there is no relation between the forms of tho cells and of the bees bodies, and that he had observed a single female build a. nest contesting of a number of six-sided cells ; fuither, the difference seen in cells formed by bees and drones cannot be correlated with any differences to be found in the inhabitants. In the formation of the queens' cells by other bees theie is no pressure to produce the rhomboid pits ; direct observation of tho formation of a comb was not rewarded by any indications of pressure. No rcn&onablo amount of pressure on the walls of the cells seems to have any effect in altering their form The author thinks that Darwin lias erred in supposing that tho cells have at first the forms which they have lately on, Whereas this is by no means the case ; at first there are nothing but rhombshaped spaces, the size of which is gradually increased. lAr is.— Close confinement »nd carefal attention to all factory work gives tho operative pallid faces, poor appetites, languid, miserable feelings, poor blood, inactive li\er, kidneys Stc , and all the physicians and medicine in the world cannot help them unless they tfet out ot donrs or uso American Co.'s Hop Bitters, None uccd auflu if thi y will use it freely. See,