CUPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2068, 8 October 1885, Page 4

CUPPINGS.

A citizkn of Akron, 0., won't believe newspaper reports, and has started East to see if den. Grant is really dead. "Who wins the money spent at gambling?" asks an enquirer. It is generally the other fellow. At least, thnt has been our experience. Ac-vbmvv called out after a smart, dapper little gentleman who affects large hats, " Como out of that hat, \i ill yer ? I know yer in it, cos I sees yer feet." Boois are stlilotn worn in the evening, and undiusseil kid is the fax ou rite mateiial fot slippeis, says ft fashionable journal. It may be added that slippers is not a fax ounto material with the un dicsscd kid. — Washington Hatchet. Thk New Yoik Ledger thinks that American girls are more beautiful than they xveie riftcen or twenty years ago. We should say that this is eminently true of i»nls xx ho xvere born fifteen or twenty yeaisago. — Springfield Union. j A mm named Shurtleff, travelling; in the West, engaged in a game of poker on the train with a stranger. After losing all lus money he put up his clothes, and when the game ended he had only one Minrtlcff.— Nornstown Herald. It is said that New Mexico spent last year for liquors §6,485,000, and for churches and schools $45,000. We didn't suppose that American civilisation had reached such a high point in New Mexico.— Norristown Herald. A gallant colonel, somewhat addicted to moods of abstraction, the other day ordered his battalion to "fix bayonets." This otherwise simple process on the occasion in question was rendered difficult, owing to the men having paraded xx ith side aims only. The adjutant at last came to the rescue, and, upon th*» matter being explained, the polite chief replied, "O, of course. Beg pardon. Unjix buyout ts ' " — Kulllcr, in Vanity Fair. Thk declaration of lo\e of a young Jap is made by hanging outiide the door of the almond eyed beauty who has stolen his hem t a branch of the floxvery shrub, the celestia alatus, with his name on it. If the branch is taken in— then — so id the young man. If it is left to pine outside, neglected — then so is the young man. Inm-xt.s as food are the fad of the day. Cockchafer salad is praised as being the delicacy of the sea&on, and its almond flavour is roundly asserted to be incomparable, but the discoverer of beetle paste soars to nobler heights. He con tends that this condiment cannot be surpassed in taste by any confection. It is stated that the members of a male gospel choir connected with Exeter Hall, London, have been quietly elbowed out of that establishment, owing to the fact that some of them ate mere mechanics. The superfine " young gei.tlemeti " who stind behind counters or sit on office stools lefuse to associate xvith common working men. The spirit of caste is veiy strong in England, but \x ho would have expected to find it flourishing in a Young Men's Christian Association ? Some xvellknoxvn passages of Scupture must have been cut out of the Exeter Hall x-ersion — such as "Mind not high things, but condescend to Hicn of low estate," and " Let each esteem other better than themselxes." At the close of the interviexv with a representative of the Pall Mall Gazette, Lord Randolph Churchill said :— "lt is of primary importance to reform the ' castle (Dublin Castle). It is a nest of political corruption — of more kinds than one, and when next the Pall Mall Gazette wants a nexv sensation, it could not do a better public service than by telling us ' The Truth about Dublin Castle' " " Lord Randolph knows what he is talking about,'" xvrites Society. " The Vice-Royalty of Ireland is a farce. The Lord-Lieutenant, well intentioned as he may be, is ever and always earwigged by a set of officials xvho, like Herr Yon Joel at the late Paddy Green's, "are retained on the establishment." The Whig barnacles who have been scraped off the hull of the ship of State in England flourish vigorously in Ireland. " Tub American Copyright League has collected some striking extracts from well-known writers. Few are better than the folloxving, by Tom Hood, who headed it "Copyright and Copy wrong " : — "It has been argued that an extended copyright would damage the public interest— that it would enhance tho price of books. Accordingly I wrote to my butcher, baker, and other tradesmen, infoi ming them that it xvas necessary for the sake of cheap literature and the inteiest of the public that they should furnish me with their commodities at a very trilling percentage above cost price. It xvill be sufficient to quote the answer of the butcher :— "Sir, lespectin'your note. Cheap literature be Mowed ! Butchers must live as well as other people— and, if so be you or the reidiu' public wants to have meat at prime cost, you must buy your own bsastesses, and kill yourselves ' " A Gran u Chavci: for Title Huntkrs. —The nexxest thing in agencies is one for supplying those very common commodities—ltalian patents of nobility. The folloxving are the teims of the ciicular which has been addressed to bankers and flourishing financial agents all oxer Europe: — "Sir, — Knowing the high position you justly hold in the financial world, and wishing you to profit by the same, either in the interests of your business or those of your family, through the adxantages of nobilty, I have the honour to infoim you that I can, for an amount officially fixed, obtain for you either certain decorations or a title, which would doubtless facilitate the transactions xx Inch you have undertaken. Title of Prince, £3000; Duke, £2000; Count, £1000; Baron, £800. AH warranted, and in good form. Trusting to the favour of an early answer.— l am, s'"r," &c. There is an engaging frankness about this document xvhich ought not to fail of its rexxard. TiiE Royal wedding on July 23, writes the correspondent of the Argus, was favoured by brilliant weather, and went off admirably. To-day Prince Henry of Battenberg, the child of a morganatic marriage, and who, up to a week ago, had nothing in the world but his name and the pay of a lieutenant, with an additional £50 a year for pocket moneyaltogether about £130 a year— is the husband of an English Princess, with an annual income of £5000 a year and a dower of £30,000 ! To add to this, the young gentleman has been oreated a K.G. and elevated to the position of a " Royal Highness. " The Prussian guardsman has done a good week's work, and he can very well afford to dismiss with contempt all the sneers which have been launched against him at Berlin and elsexvhere. If report is true, howerer, the Queen feels acutely some of the comments made. The German Court have not hesitated to say that they regard the marriage as a terrible mtxallianre, and partly on this ground, but also because the Queen stands by the Grand Duke of Hesse in all his foolishness, and in spite of his grave misconduct in the Kolemine divorce case, the Crown Prince and Princess declined to attend the function. The Prince of Wales is believed to have shared the objection taken in Berlin to the bridegroom, but he could not persist in it, and the same may be said of the Duke of Edinburgh and others. It is remarkable how firmly the same idea has taken root among the populace, who are heartily sick of the system which introduces the poorer German Princes into this country for their oxvn immense benefit. In such circumstances, the rather ferble eulogiums of the Poet Laureate are neglected, or treated w ith something less than decency. Rpvpi \croßs— " WYn a board of eminent physicians and chemists announced the discorrry that by combining some xvcll-Icnoxvn valuable remedies a most wonderful medicine was produced, which would cure such a wide range of disease: tint most all other remedies could be disposed with, many were skeptical, but proof of its merits by actual trial has dispelled all doubt, and to-day the discoverers of that greit medicine, Dr Soule's American Co's Hop Hitters, arehonouied and blessed by all as benc actors." Read.