CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2074, 22 October 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

CLIPPINGS.

A North Carolina man shot bis head off to cure a ringworm on his neck. Sir Moses Montetiore left a fortune of about five millions of dollars. A r.ooi) SI/-KD wh.ilo will produce two ton* of whalebone. Til X illustrated papers, whilo they may havp regretted (Grant's death, mm>t have felt relio\cd to get the picture of his deathbed scene and all its accompaniment* out of the way. From the time thit Grant was taken seiiously ill the illustrated (tapers have had the pages of his biography and illustrations of all the possible and imaginary scenes of his death waiting, in electrotype plates, to be put on the press. The change of residence from New York to Mount McGregor occasioned an entire disai range ment of these prepaicd pages, for the same bed-mom would not do at Jill, nor would any of the scenes that had a local bearing, 1 But then illustrated papois have to take [ time by the forelock. I A new and characteristic anecdote mf General Grant was (says St James' Gazette) related by Dr Hanghton, President of the Royal Zoological Society of li eland, on the I occasion of the visit of the Lord Lieutenant to the gaideti" of the institution at Dublin. 1 When General (Jrant visited the city the reveiend doctor had the honour of conduct- ( ing him around the gardens. The doctor | observed that the General was a silent man. He asked him what he would like to see, and he replied, " Bring me a ch.ur, and put me in front of the lion*. I w.mt to see your Irish lions." "He sat down," added the doctor, "and binoked two cigars, and | then went out of the gardens without haying another word." It will be news to most people, as it was to Lord Carn irvon, to learn that among the resources of Ireland is the export of lions, and that the trade in the*e animals is a distinct source of revenue to the society. Stanlkv Huvrxnv, the humorist, w.is ono of the most versatile men upon the American press, He began his professional life as a lawyer. He became a reporter at the age of twenty-three and in that capacity worked for the leading papers of New York, St. Louis, and Chicago. In 187°, while our soldiers were searching for Sitting Bull, he went into the Northwest territory, and found the redoubtable w.irrioi, and obtained an interview with him for the Chicago Tribune Shoitly .iftei this Mr Huntloy returned to New York, and took employment upon the editorial staff of the Brooklyn Eagle. It was several months later before he began the humorous work that made him known Worn one end of this country to the other. The " Spoopendvke" stories achieved an instant success. They were afterwards collected in book form, and their sale reached nearly five thousand copies Huntley died on July 30th. His malady was Bright* disease. There has just been admitted to the Military School at Weilbtirg, (says the Pall Mall Gazette), in Germany, a youth with a curious name and a still more I curious history. He is cilled Sedan Bohme. Young Bohme is one of perhaps very few who cm cl.iim to have first seen the light on the field of battle. Just after the battle of Sedan, in the Franco Prussian war, a suiter belonging to the German force gave birth to a child, and it was forthwith christened w ith the name of this decisive struggle. The Ciown Prince acted as sponsor, and a ttilesia.n battalion of chasseurs, now stationed at Gorht/, took the infant under its especial protection, j The " son of the regiment " has continued | with his nnlitaiy protectors until quite j lecently, receiving frequent tokens of the inteiest taken in him by the Grown Piince, and enjoying the marked care and attention of the battalion It was natunlly decided that Sedan Bohme should follow the tiade of war, and ho he h.is just begun a course of education in the Weilbuig School. With such a name it w ill be di^ip- ! pointing if ho fails to beenmo a good soldier. I "Atticus" writes in the Leader. — j Disparity in stature and intellect has in all ages proved ft fruitful theme of dis- ' cussion. The limits of variation in the same species presents one of the most ! curious phenomena in the philosophy of J evolution. But the scientific inquiner must be careful not to attempt to study j two object? at the same time, otherwise [ research will not be so fruitful, as witness the case of a large wealthy laudowning, sheep raising, ignorant, and ob- | jectionable squattei in the Western district the other day. Being compelled to wait some time at a telegraph station for a return message, he proceeded to exercise his wit on the youthful cleik in chcrge of the office, a young gentleman of small stature. " Don't yoe think," said the si<-foot pastoral tenant, " that a man like myself would be a much better specimen to breed from than a little chap like youself ?" "Well," replied the diminutive one, "it all depends whether you bieed for beef or biains." The rest of the dialogue is not preserved. Lord Chi/Rchim- vm> His Win--.— Hore is a story of the vnung nobleman who as- i pnes to bo the modern Disraeli . — A few) yeais ago Mi-.s Jenny .Jerome, the second i daughter of Mr Leonard W. Jerome, met | Lord Randolph Churchill at a dinner in i Paris. Attracted by her bounty and the bullinncy of her conversation, he noon confined his attention to her. Those, who sat near them stopped talking and listened to them with undisguised admiration. Mhs I Jerome was noted for her conyersational poweit., but they had never seemed to her friends as brilliant as on this occasion. Lord Randolph, however, proved a match for her. Her satire was met with sparkling repartee, and her wit .md humour for once i found a fair exchange. When the ladies j had withdrawn, Lord Randolph turned to a friend and said enthusiastically : "That's the brightest woman f havo ever met ;" and added with the seriousness o[ n fatalist, "and I mean to marry her.' 1 Singulnily enough, while he was siying this, Miis I Jerome was making an almost identical icmark concerning him to ono of her sisters. Within a fortnight of their first meeting j they were engaged, and very soon aftei - wards married. By this marriage Lord | Randolph seemed a wife whose aspiring and ambitious temperament has spurred him on in his political caicer, and whoso in- | come is sufficient to form a welcomo addi tion to his small annuity. Mr Jerome conveyed to his daughter, before the marriage, the valuablo propet ty on which the University Club of Now York city stands.