CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2027, 4 July 1885, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

It is stvtcil tli.it the projected now woiU in Amfiica in connection with the telephone amounts in total to 247,720 miles. A WAiTiatroY in a hotel at Niag.ua ately wiote to his mother: "The hot*. I sia-on is all over hete, but the Falls aie pom' on just the same as e\er." Pbi.vck BihMARCK is a regular sub scriber to the London Tunes, forthoieason, as he says that lie wants to read daily the same matter perused by the British no bility. Thk London mcnioiial to the laii Colonel lluinahy is to consist of .1 tablet or monument in l'.uil\ (.'athedial, nnd a new wing .it the Soldier' D.uighten' Home. A Wax taper, said to have been the identical ono earned in penance by Honry 11. to the shiino of Thomas ft Bucket, .it C.iutcibiiry, has just been sold by auction m London, for £6. At a wood-sawing contest the other day, two women won tho prize, and each has since been overwhelmed with offers of marriage. Mr P. T. Barvum, in a letter despatohed from Bridgeport, Connecticut, says he yet hopes to place the great show (Jumbo included) in London and the provinces. Amkbicax newspapers aro'much exercised just now with the whim of an eccentric Englishman, who landed m New York one morning recently, and took a steamer for Liverpool the same afternoon. He said he had seen enough. The Yolks Zeitung of Birlin gives some statistics which show that for the seventeen States of Europe the total of the armies on a pace footing is 2,520,522 men, who cost £94,820,575 per annum. Adding to thus the total of the seventeen war budgets, which is £101,672,782, the tot.il loss suffered by Europe annually on account of her armies is £1 96,51 1,852. Aru'Mniß was sent for to the house of a wealthy stockbroker to execute some repairs. He was taken by the butler into the dining room, and was beginning his work when the lady of the house entered. "John," said she, with a suspicious qhnce towards the plumber, "remove the silver from the sideboard, and lock it up at once." But the man of lead was in no wise disconcerted. "Tom," said he to his apprentice, who had accompanied him ; " take my watch, and my chain and these coppers, home to my missus at once. There seems to be dishonest people about this house," It has bpen calculated by a Parisian playgoer that a "first night' audience consisting of a thousand persons is made up of the following component parts :—: — Personal enemies of the author, 60 : persons who, without knowing him, hope for a failure, 103; those who have paid an extravagant price for their seats, and are therefoie ill-disposed to him, 123 ; persons who aic cross fiom a lad dinner, 14; persons who are generally cross, 21 ; women deserted by tho author at one time of his life or another, 9; fellow nuthois, 2S ; those to whom tho author lias refined to lend monej , 42 ; enemies of the manager, 60; indiffeient, 450; friends, 0; floating population, 100; total, 1000. N.B.— lf the night be wet, 200 of the "indiffuieut " become enemies. Komvuokf's Desp vtch.— Tho Official Messenger of May 12 publishes a leport from (Jeneral Komaroff, dated Dash-Kepii, April 11, containing details of the hght on the Kushk River, according to which the Russian force engaged consisted of one battalion of the line, four guns three >,otnias of Cossacks, one sotni.i of Turkoman militia, and four companies of rifles. The Ru«sians captured two Afghan flag.-*, w Inch were taken to St. Petersburg by Colonel Zakrejevski. Only fourteen Afghans, in eluding seven wounded, were made prisoners. The Russians did not pursue tho Afghans in their fight. General Komaroff estimates the Afghan loss at over 500 killed, including four officers. S.iib Malar, the Afghan commander, is stated to have been wounded. A Ni w Version* of an or/r> So\o.— The following new veision of the old Jingo ps-altn is sent to tho Pall Mall Ga/ette by a correspondent : — We don't want to fight ; But, byjinqo, if wo do— We've Protestant and Catholic, Turk, Infidel, and Jew ; We've " (iod " and " Mammon," "Allah," " Buddah," " Brahma," nnd " Vi-hnu ;" We've collared all the L>eitie-<, bo vvh.it can Russia do ?

The Powm of tub Prf^s, — A burg lar, while attempting to i»b a bloated bondholder of Mar>s>\il!e, by mistake got into the humble residence of an editor next door. After unsuccessfully fumbling around for suitable a?sots for some time, he was disgusted to obscne the tenant of the house sitting up in bed laughing at him. " Ain't you old Skinderson, the capitalist ?" inquired the housebreaker. " Nary time," chuckled the journalist; "I'm the editor of the Screaming Eagle." "Great .Scott !" said tbe burglar, looking at his stem winder, " and here I've been waiting four blooming hours on this branch almshotise. I say, old qnilldriver, you ne\er poke fun at your subset ibors, do you '!" "Not the cash ones." " Exactly," said the buig., taking out his wallet; '"heie's six months' subscription to call this thing square. If theie's one thing on earth I can't stand, it's satire." Amuvo the treasure 1 ? at New Oilcan* Exhibition is the oldest pair of trousers in the world, or as catalogued, "the most extraordinary pair of trousers in the world." These famous breeches ha\e seen fifty-four years of honest service One imall square represent* the original material, the lemainder of the garment being made up of 200 patches and pieces, which have from time to time repaired the ra\ages of time and wear. Edla White, the owner, ii a black person, eighty five years of age, and he purchased the trousers when he was a young man of thirty. Naturally he is deeply attached to his old trousers, And when the suggestion was made that he should part with his treasures tears staited to his aged eyes. He had hoped to die in them. But sentiment gave place to pride when it was pointed out th.it by allowing the trouseia to go to the Exhibition both he and the garment would become famous ffo now wears another pair of trou-<ei<-, and according to the last leports is as comfortable as could be expected under the circumstances.