CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2077, 29 October 1885, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

Saiu-tooa is not » Mother Hubbard go .vn.— Waterloo Observer. If "Natuie abhors a vacuum" why ihould she create a dude? Opevivo of the season — Uncovering the inuatarl pjt Ths billiard player, like the actoi, cannot get along without his cue. There h a hoi se m Harlt-m so balky tnat he won't draw his own breath. The weather in Texas n so waun that people ait around tires to keep cool. A Catholic journal thiuks the Douay Bible needs reusing. There are 29,000 English speaking Episcopal clergymen in the world. There are six branches of the Presby ttrian Church in the United States. The Swedenborg Society of London ■old last year 2132 rolums of the works of Swedenborg, and distributed 2844 volumes. The Baptists of Philadelphia have surpassed all the other denominations of that city in the matter of church exteniion during the last ten years. As lowa farmer says : "We raise 400 bushels of potatoes to the acre here, which would be a good thing if we didn't alao rave insects enough to eat 'em all up. DCRINff a thunderstsrm the other day at Torre Cajetani, a small town in the neighbourhood of Anagni, no less than thirteen persons were killed and twenty-two severely injured by lightning. The Japanese Army department is about to construct 50 new forts and rebuild all forts now existing, so as to make the coast defence of the country more efficient, and 900 heavy guns, from 17 to 24 centimetres in calibre, are to be mounted on these forta. A foet says : "There is always sun rise somewhere." Tins is comforting. To the man who is just going to bed there comes the happy consolation that somebody ha* to get up and go to work. Boston Pott. 11 So the defendant threatened you, did he ?" " Yes, sir ; he threatened to kill me." "Do you believe h« would have done so had the police not come up ?" "Yes, sir." "What were the defeudant's words ?" "He said he would send my black soul to Sheol." "Do you believe he would have done so?" "Yes, sir." Professor Oettli of Berne says that in Switzerland, to a large extent, "true religion is forgotten in the conflicts about baptum, separation of Church and State and other comparatively unimportant matters." It is the old story— men fighting over shadows and neglectful of the substance of things. If we may trust the calculation of a German theological review, the total number of Catholic missionaries is at present 6700, thut divided : Capuchins, 1000 : Franciscans, 2300 ; Oblates, 300 ; priests of the foreign missions, 700 ; Jesuit 1 ?, 1300 ; the remainder of various congregations or seculars. He Nkeded Lots of Salt : They were walking on the beach, and as Claude held her little hand he murmured — " I lova to be with you, Clanbel ; it seems so bright and I feel so much fresher." "Do you, dear? I should not think that possible." And then he dropped her hand and turned sadly away, his sighs keeping time to the surges as they lashed themselves to foam on the pebbly beach. Thackfray and the Oyster. — When Thackeray paid his fir>=t visit to America it was known of him that he was very fond of oysters, and at a dinner given in his honour, the largest oyster that the place provided— quite an abnormal oyster in point of size — was placed before him. He said himself that he turned pale when he saw it, such a monster was it, but that he ate it in silence. His host asked him how he felt after .yards. " Profoundly thankful," said Thackeray contentedly ; " I feel as if I had swallowed a baby." "I tell you what," airily exclaimed Perkins, as he Bat down to the supper table; "I was in a tight place thi« afternoon." '• Yes, I know you were," interrupted his wife, in a clear, cold utterance that cut like a knife ; " I saw you coming out of it." And then it flashed across Perkm's mind that he had incidentally stepped into a saloon with a friend for the purpost .of examining a doubtful political statement, and the supper was finished amid a silence so profound that he could plainly hear a napkin ring. — Rockland Courier. it is well-known that Charles Dickens might have been enrolled among the titled people of the realm. But Dickens, over and above his somewhat anti-monarchical and anti-aristocratic instincts, felt that if he really was as great a man of letters as his contemporaries supposed him to be, he was deserving, if of a title, of a much higher title than anybody was likely to propose should be conferred on him ; whereas, if his contemporaries were mistaken, their mistake would make him less ridiculous in the eyes of posterity if he remained plain Charles Dickens to the last. — Standard. Tun appointment of Sir Frederick Roberts as Commander-in-Chief of the India* Army is thus commented on by the Australasian :—" Under the late Liberal Administration Sir Frederick Roberts was condemned to comparative obscurity until the Russian scare, when he was at once selected for high com mand. It was no discredit to the distinguished Indian officer that his services were overlooked until they became indis peusible. Sir Frederick was not one whose military counsel was gent-rally found to square with the plans of his political superiors. At the close of the late Afghan war he spoke 9trongly in favour of the retention of Candahar, and although the Ministry were entirely opposed to this course, and rejected it, subsequent events have justified the advice given by Sir Frederick Roberts and other military experts, and now that there is likely to be trouble beyond the frontier, it h fitting that the hero of Candahar should command the Indian army, in which he is most popular." In a short aiticle we (Lyttelton Times) published the other day about the Canadian Pacific Railway a very important fact was chronicled. That company had not been able to see its way to undertake the completion of the line upon hheral land concessions. It had only been floated by an Imperially guaranteed loan. The bearing of this fact upon the pro posal of Messrs Meiggs and son, to which wr referred the other day, is most important. Here was a caie of land of known character. The marines and newspapers have been dilating on the Canadian weitern l.uida for years past No one doubted their enormous fertility ; everybody agreed that the evil climate of those regions was much o\errated ; no one was allowed to say anything against the theory that a railway would make these lands a valuable asset, convertible immediately into money at a very enhanced value. Yet trie Canadian Pacific h.id to rely upon the guarantee of the British Government before it could see its way through its difficulties How much more natural ii it that in the case of the con cession of our West Coast lands, of whom value nobody beyond the colony has heard, a contracting firm of engineers should require a guarantee befoie it could undertake to float a Company ? This shows the truth of the repoit the leturned delegates have given of the unwillingness of the Stock Exchange to ac cept land concessions as of themselves adequate. We hope peopU- will not any longer permit themselves the bad taste to rail against the Railway as a gross job, merely because a concession was asked for which has been pioved to be perfectly natural and reasonable. A Raiti r*vAKi''s]BiTF.— The quick venom of the rattlesnake h.n not killed so many people as the more insidious but deadly poisons found in the air of foul rooms. l*he u ration of th»» blood by the lungi becomes impossible sometimes, and the tailing health, mowing weakness ami lost of appetite are b irbinuers of approaching death. I'or such case* Hop Bitters are the potent and all-powerful remedy to drive all fevers out of the sjstem, purifying the blood, and giving a new and happy W»e of life. Get gen mm,