CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2097, 15 December 1885, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

A NEW ironclad is to lie built at Venice for the ItMian Government. She is to be of Urge tonnage, and will be namod the Umburto. " Mali.ni>a, I'm astonished at you— standing at the telephone with your hair in papers and your collar crook* d ' "Why, mother. I don't see why that should matter." "Oh, of oiirie. yon don't ! You never did cr.ic how jou look. How do you know who is fit the othr r end of the telephone ?" WiihN Mi« Ltttin^wcll-Slote, who has jnst jttnd.iatcd, was toll that there was a probability of a shott hay crop this }ear u\w remaiked that she supposed it wotdd'nt he so bad if the grass oro P turned out well. She picsumed that hones could eat grass in the winter as well m in the •ummer if they were put to it. A coRRKnPOXDKVT of tho Salt Lake Tribune, writing from Shoahoni", Idnho, Bays :—": — " ConsidiTable excitement pre\ aila here on account of the opinion expressed by Sir R. Farquharson, the eminent English geologist, who has been spending a few days at the great Shoshone Falls, twenty-two milrs south of lieje. He is confident thmt hundreds of tons of gold dust haa found legment at the foot of tho falls, having been washed down the ri>cr for ages past. The question is how to get at it, at the water under the falN is from fifty to one hundred feet deep. The theory look* plausible, at the country through which the liver runs is rich with gold for hundreds of miles above and below the falls." Thf, talented Frenchman who under the wow de plitmc of Max O'Rell, wrote those •lever skits on English mvinm and customs, "John Bull and his Island," and "John Bull's Women Kind," has recently published another work, called " Nos chens voisins," vi which he gives the following description of the Biitiah ■chool boy. He writes • — " It is a sturdy, hardy, robm>t, well knitted lad, with muscles of steel, and mule like obstinacy, who, sooner than let go the foot-ball which lie fiercely cuddle*, will perform prodigies of valor ; who, merely for the chance of making that ball pass between two goals, will bite the dust, will let his flesh he torn, his jaw dislocated, his rib» atove in ; and would even be carried off to die upon a bed of anguish, with a •mile upon his lips, if he could only hear, at bin young eyes closed, that his .side had secured the game." Then he goes on : " Multiply such an Knglisli jouth up to the number of the stars of the firmament, and you will get an idea of the martial, if not the military strength of England." HfßK.ua dog story indeed, says the 'St James ' Ga/otte. Our correspondent, "B. J., 1 ' a man whom we respect, writes: — Tnc master of a clever dog was found of hot rolls for breakfast ; he placed a penny each day in his doit's mouth, and said to him, 'Baker.' The dog would then start off for the Baker's. Arrived ther* he placed his feet on the counter, and presented a penny to the propnetor of tlio shop, who taking the penny, placed a bag containing a penny roll in the dog's month. This the dotj used *afely to tiansport to his master for his breakfast One day the dog had, as ii'iial, brought a penny to the baker's counter and duly deposited it. The man, in order to see w hat the dog wouM <fo, took a Inlf penny 1011, and, depositing it in a bug, placed the latter, as usual, in the log's mouth. The dog put down the hag on the counter, and went out and fetched in the policeman." What's in a n \mk. —What's in n mine ? It depends upon circumstances. Men may alter their name whenever they please A man named Josiah Bn^'g, a tenant of the Duke of Noifolk, having a difference of some sort with his (Jrace, changed his name to Norfolk Howard, and all the Duke's efforts, at law or otherwise, were insufficient to prevent it. Neither is there anything to prevent any man from ct Ming any other man by any name he pleases, provided it be not libellous. Ships, however, appear to have rights concerning names which men have not ; and to change a ship's name without her consent, or what is of more importance, her owner's consent, is a punishable offenco. The other night, when the Sahatron Army steam yacht Jole was lying in Pool Harbour, some body painted out her name, and painted in the name of Kliza Armstrong on both bow s and the stern. Why Eliza Armstrong is not disclosed ; but it in.iy be Buppo»ed to have been an allusion to the case in which Marshall Booth and Mr Stead, of the Pall Mill Gazette, wcie concerned. At all events, it hnd some particular meaning or reference, for the c r ew were very indignant when they discovered what hail boon done to their vessel while they were asleep, and the captain offered a large rewaid for the conviction of the oilcnder. N hilst on the subject of name*, we may remark that it is not ronsidcicd any offence, but quite the contrary, to change a I.uly'a name, —with her consent, of course ; but the instances are few in which that is refused when judiciously applied for.— Wellington Pre.«s. A Dwomkith!) Actor.— Kveryone by this time has heard of the story about Booth, the tragedian, who nndnttook to play lago to an audience of cowboys and front lei men in one of the \Ve9tern States of America. When he came to the fourth act the audience rose up and began shooting, so that he was fain to be flut on the stage till the storm of bullets passed ovrr. A similar story is now told of tho hardships of the actor's life :— Tlie sun was pinning brigntly on Union scjnare when Harold Montgomery Boothbarrett strode into the centre of a group of actors. " Why, Harold," said one, " I thought yon had gone out Wtst with a company to play Shakespearian p!ajs. You havi» cut your trip short, haven't you ':" " Young man, I undertook to plaj ' Romeo and Juliet' in Butte City, Montana. All went merry as a mainnge I ell till I was about to stab myself in the last act When I drew the dagger, the audience burst into a roar of laughter, and a rude fellow in the front row, called out : ''Hey," yon tender-foot, wot are you goin' ter do ? I was astonished, but I replied "To kill myself' 'Wot,' said he; 'with that toothpick ? You can't come that on this community. You take this and srnd yournelf over the range in stye. And ho handed me up a tremendous revolver. I expostulated and explained that it was not in the play. I said tin y had no pistols in those days. ' Wot,' he loarded ; 'no pistols? Then the quicker you stop this dtirned play an' give us a tong an' dance the bettor.' And Juliet and I had to do the 'Big Hunflowpr ' right there, dressed just as wo were. Young man, Shakspearc's got no show out there." The Bad and Worthless arr never imtlutid or counlrrfr\trii. This is cspecial'y true of a family medicine, and it is positive proof that the remedy \nutnttil is of the highest value. As soon as it had boon tested and proved by the whole woi Id that Hop Bitteis was the purest, best and the most valuable family medicine on e.irth, many imitation's sprung up and began to steal the notices in which the press and the people of thu country had expressed the merits of H. B , and in every way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their stuff inntrad, expecting to make money on the credit and good name of H. B. Many others » started uos tmms put up in similar style to H. B , with variously devised names in which the word " Hop" or " Hops" were used in a way to induce people to believe they were the same as Hop Bitters. All mich pretended remedies or cures, no matter what then style or name is and espeoially those with the word " Hop" or " Hops" in their name or in any way connected with them or their name, ore imitations or counteifeits. Beware of them, louch none of them. Use no thing but genuine American Hop Bitters, with a cluster of green Hops on the w hifco label, and Dr Honle'a name blown in the glass. Trust nothing else. Druggists and Chemists are warned against dealing in imitation* or counterfeiti.