A CURIOUS LAWSUIT

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2033, 18 July 1885, Page 4

A CURIOUS LA WSUIT

A wn.l.w n.1. know n i.uiiii.iu papu, the Illustriitc /uituiig, has just had a curious lawsuit. It invited a woll-known novelist to contribute toiti columns ; the contiibutions were duly written, sent in, am) leeeived, but alas for the futuie gloiy of then creator, weie lost. The piopnelors ot the journal le^ietU'd then loss, hut declined to pay the pipei Ut'ucc the lawsuit. The l.idy sued for the v.ilue ol the heii.il and liookught* Slie admitted in croia evaiiiiiiiitiou tliat slie cuild easily ie-«nLe the .story, aa she li.id tlie plot and uliauicteis cait-lully stored up in liti meiuoiy Hat she ob jeeted to tlie tiouble, and the gallant judjje sympathised with lici so fai as to give liei a veidiut foi the amount she claimed. The unhappy propnetoia, wlio had not mentioned turns, were tlurefoie mulcted in liaixhwiHo damages, and have tlie satiafaetiou of knowing that tin; lady can stdl publish the novel which they have pud foi but nevei used. —Life.

(Jait iiiv not so much to blame, after all. Every don has his ilay, and the c.ita have to take up with the night. •• Now your t.ilk has the true ring !" as the eirl cxclanncil when her lover bc|>an ta talk of " a diamond circlet. ' Offi, is the name of an East Boston young man. When lie goes to see his girl he lias an object in view— to Hit, to woo. Scientists claim that cigarette smoking leads to idiocy. We do not know how true tins is, but are satisfied that idiocy lead? to cigarette smoking. Tfiß hot weather that is coming will greatly help the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow. When it is hot he can sit down and sweat without ever lifting a hand. A Lamb can distinguish its mother's cry among a hundred similar sounds. It la the same with a boy, but he seldom pays the same attention to it that he does when Ilia father speaks. An cditoi who st.n ted a little paper five years ago is now a millionaiie Nothing is impossible where industry and economy aie combined with good looks. He man led a rich wife. Til fc guests have dined, and the host hands iiound a case of cigais. " I don't Btnoke myself," he says ; " but you will find thorn good. My man steals more of them than any other brand I ever had." Lu(ic:iN(i a twenty-pound baby around the room fioin midnight until the roosters crow will cmsh out the divine afflatus from the bosom of the most soulful poet. At a social gathering one lady said to another— " Just look how that lawyer's wife is flirting with that man over there ! How old might she lie ?" "She might be twenty-five, but slip is thirty-seven." Seenk — Parlour at tea-time. Little Girl — ''Oh, mamma. I've burnt my month !" Mamma— "Tut, tut, you silly child ! Could you not have tasted your tea before you but it into your mouth *" " Did you take m«» for a fool when you married me?" cried an angry husband in the midst of a domestic qu irrel, to which the wife meekly replied — "No, James, I did not ; but then you always •aid I was no judge of character." •'You may say what you like, mother ; George no longer loves me." "But child, how did yon get that silly notion into your head ? ' " Oh, \ cry simply and only too quickly ! When he takes me home nowadays he always takes the shortest road .' Fovsih Flok\ in Gkh-.ni. u ».— It is curious to find, in the heart of tlusiegion of volcanic locks, in an aictic country, and in an me tic cold, the fossil remains of a flora totally distinct from that now living; there, and one winch implies the existence of an early period of a very temper.it? climate at the least. Fossilised wood, leaves, flowers and fruits ha\ c bet n found at various pai ts of the i volcanic region of North Gicruland, in more than a do/en places, and have been referred to various periods — those which have been assigned to the Tertiary period alone amounting to about 137 specios. From a little Mielf on a rocl», about 400 feet long, and out of strata amounting to scarcely moic than .'< feet in thickness, I obtained no less than 7o species, including oaks, poplars, chestnuts, planes, saquoias, magnolia, and many others. — Good Words. The Ri/HMAN C'okovatiox Fe^tiyat,, — On the plain which is partly occupied by the buildings of the recent exhibition at Moscow, 83 circular counters are being constructed for the distribution of 900,000 pies to the moiijik*, and 16 vats, to hold 040,000 bottles of beer for free consumption by the people attending the open theatre and other places of popular amusement now in coui.se of construction. The municipality of Moscow has voted 20,000 roubles to be spent on preparations for the grand entiy of the Imperial family into the city, 80,000 roubles for illumination and 100,000 for popular fi-tes. Enormous quantities of small presents for the populace have also been ordcied. For the illumination of the Kremlin 40 electric globes, to give a bnlliancy equal to 400 candles each, with (i versts of wire conductor, are being made, ami electrical engineeis fiom England have arrived to aid in fitting up. V< ry costly presents, in the form of puld and silver groups, representing the liberation and protection of the smaller Slavonic .States by Russia, hay c been made for the I'iince of Bulgaria and Montenegio and the King of Servia The massive gold and silver plates for the presentation of the >lavonic bread and salt at the cognation have bi.cn provided by bundicds tor the '/ciiistvos, municipalities and other local bodies. Many uf the->e bodies, although over head and ears in debt owing to agiicultuial and commercial distress, have yet voted hundred- of thousands of roubles in this way to swell the magnificence of the approaching ceremony. Several tiinmphal arches are to be constructed for the Impeml entry, at one of which is to be an orchestra of 1000 musicians and 8000 chorister". It is proposed to ahk Rubinstein to write a much for the occasion and to direct the orchesti a in person. A list of the Imperial and Royal person ages to be asked to the ceremony is given in one of the daily journals It includes nearly nil the crowned heads of Europe and Asia. Two hi^h officials, it is said, will shortly be denpntehed, one to Europe and the ether to Asia, to deliver the ito, stations —Times.

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