The World.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2185, 10 July 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

The World.

[Tsie following parrtgr#phHvHre extrrctefh Jfeom tlu>, f London, rtsjietyl ,P a PS?*'» n^ <v other Hoiiie jouriial| k ] *?''' i' t r L* The group of reHtfdtjic la^ea wKieli'^infl .bieh for nom© .fyead* oni'/of Ultf MO* t *char acferistic features of the private view at the Grosvonor whs missing 1 on Saturday. One solitary representative appeared ! attired apparently as a canary, ap4, certainly attracted more attention than could have been pleasant. 1 'Fault 'has beetf found with Lord Rose-" bery for making a political speech at the Academy banquet ; but I hear the Foreign Secretary excuses himself by ntating that the extraordinary oheerinvr which broke forth when the President, in proposing the toapt of the Queen, alluded to the "unity of the Empire," seemed a reflection on the Government, and demanded some notice. An amiable enthusiast spent his energies on Easter Monday in sending messages by pigeons from Canterbury and Portsmouth to Dover, to show how useful this method would be in real warfare. A fair percentage of the pigeons, however, never reached their destination. Could it be possible that the practical volunteer intercepted them, and put them to their proper use at supper-time on Monday nijyht ? Lord Redesdale was a thoroughly independent man, although somewhat of a schoolmaster in his treatment of my Lords. In personal appearance, and in dress, he resembled a greengrocer hired out to wait. Of this he was not only' conscious, but proud, for he delighted in telling a story of how, when he had been to call upon a brother peer, the servant who opened the door told him to. wait in the hall. The " Immaculate Conception," by Murillo, which waa purchased, many years rt^o by the late Mr Aspinwall, of New York, is coming back to Europe for sale, as it has been valued by American experts at £16,000, and, strange to say, no buyer has come forward. It has always been regarded as about the finest " Old Master" in America, but the rage is all for quite modern pictures. The determination of Messrs E. J. Driver, of Surrey, and W. R. Gilbert, of Gloucestershire, to openly join the ranks of the professional cricketers will be universally applauded, and luckily snobbishness — at any rate, of a certain kind — is so conspicuously absent from the cricketfield, that tho two players in question will find little or no difference in their enjoyment; of their favonrite, and it is to be hoped henceforth profitable pursuit. I am glad to see that, with his u«ual good sense, the Bishop of Peterborough has declined to interfere with the Wantage Sisters, who have been acouaed by certain busybodies of indulging in Romanish proclivities. Dr. Magee says that, while he is no lover of ritual, he is not going, in order to please anyone, to set up his own standard as a rule for other people. "So long as good wotneu are d«ing noble work, he will not do anything so contemptible, mean, and unmanly as to boycott and quarrel with them on account of candle-ends." Mr Joseph Arch, M.P., is a gentleman fairly well-to-do, and those who profess to be acquainted with his worldly circumstances put down his average income at a ' • tenner " per week. Up to his election he always sported thß black broadcloth dear to the self-made man. It is only sinct his return as a " Labour candidate " that he has masqueraded in the hideous i suit of corduroy which he now affects, and which was specially purchased with a view of producing a due impression of ] his bom fides upon the House. The longest word in the English, or rather Welsh, language has, after a long period of oblivion, been once more exhumed. It is bgllgerchwyrnbyllgogerbwllzanttvsiliogogogoch. This word of 72 letters and 22 syllables, the name of a village in Wales, constituted the subject of a lecture lately given by the Rev. J. King, M.A., at the Museum, Berwick, in which he showed that it means : — St. Mary's white hazel pool, near the turning pool, near the whirlpool, very near the pool of Llantsilio, fronting the rocky islet of Gogo." Curious accounts arejeurreut as to the social position of some of the new Parnellite members of Parliament. I hear that one man who represents a division of an Ulster county is a working tailor earning from fifteen] shillings to a pound a week. His expenses to and in London are paid " out of the fund." A friend of mine saw him at an Irish railway station a few weeks ago hopelessly intoxicated, and lying on the platform. A porter grimly'pointed him out, and in reply to the question. "How will he get home"? said, "sure the priest's inside the hookin' office writing out a label for him." Pretty people for legislators J I see that Sir Joshua Reynolds' picture of the three Ladies Waldegrave is to be sold at Christie's. It will be be curious to see what it fetches. It was painted in 1780. and, writing of it to Sir Horace Mann, Walpole said, "Sir Joshua gets avaricious in his old age. My picture of the young Ladies Waldegrave is doubtless very fine and graceful, but it cost me eight hundred guineas." It 1758, Johnson said, in writing to Rennet Langton, "Mr Reynolds has this day raised his price to twenty guineas a head." In 1762, be had again raised his price, for in that year Lord Halifax paid him three hnndred guineas for the picture of " Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy." But for his peculiarly-shaped cabman's hat few visitors to the Newmarket Birdcage would have recognised Lord Savernake minus his black and white chessboard, or some other eccentric suit in which it has been his custom to appear on racecourses since his brief connection with the Turf. His Lordship, for a wonder, was decently, habited in a dark broadcloth, with the familiar white breeches and butcher boots ; and the cause of the change was not far to seek. It transpired that when, to most people's astonishment, the privilege of visiting the Jockoy Club portion of the stand, under the auspices of Lord Suffield, was extended to Lord Savernake, the Senior Steward hinted to his protege the desirability of discontinuing his previous "loud" style of dress in favour of a quieter fashion.

Mr. Georoe Saxuee, proprietor of an English menagerie, has made that useful animal, the lion, the unwitting custodian of his cash. All the money taken at the gates is placed for the night in an iFon safe in the lion's den, from which it may be assumol the most intrepid burglar wili not venture to dislodge it. This to us, who know our Lempriere, is about as near a realisation of the dragons of the Hosperides as modern conditions make possible. The following story leaked out this morning on a prominent railroad man, who lives on the south side of Bag-street. Last evening this railroad ticket agent was standing in front of the Park Theatre, looking with longing eyes at the people who were going into the show. Suddenly one of the St. James hotel musicians passed him on the steps, and the railroad man heard the musician say to the doork eeper : * 'Profession. " "What ?" replied the doorkeeper ;" St. James Band.'" Pass," replied the doorkeeper. AU this the railroad mm took in, when suddenly the thought struck him that he too might get a pass. Pulling down his vest aud clearing his throat the railroad man " waltzed " up to the doorkeeper, and putting on a '' Ko-Ko-like"expreBsiou, winked at the ticket-man, and in a most indifferent fashion, drawled out, "Profession." " What? " This was a staggerer, as the railroader had not thought of what kind of a show he should have said he belonged to. "Weil— ah " stuttered the railroad man, "I am a professional liar." at length he blurted out in desperation. Pass the geptleman in," yelled the doorkeeper, au/1 ia ItfJ went.