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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2262, 8 January 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

" Mns with the squeezed out." was a Lynn small boy's definition of dust. Coming to Griuf.—Meeting trouble halfway. A lady in Edinburgh who wis a few dayn ago eating a herrinur felt >>omethiug hard in her mouth. It proved to be the jewelled part of a ring , , containing four pearls nhd three rubies, and it had been imbedded in the ft' h's back. The Australian papers aro quoting the statement that "at Hawks'* Bxy, Now Zealand, girls are m*de to wear slippers during school hours." Also, another relation, which states " That nil female scholars must in future wear their garters above the knee." Actoks having pathetic parts are advised that modern science has found the means of producing artificial tears. The essential oil of onions can now be extracted. A single drop of this oil upon the handkerchief produces a flow of tears ; two drops cause persistent sobbing, and three drops grief of the most suffocating aud gasping kind. In a forcibly-written article on " Falling in Love," which appeared iu the October number of the Fortnightly Review. Grant Allen combats Sir Gewrge Campbell's ideas that wives and husbands should be selected for each other with a view to the future development of the race. In one part of the article the writer points out the great service which novelists have rendered to mankind by persistently showing that people should marry for nothing; less than love. He also contends that although the instincts are not unerring, it is better on the whole that men and women should be left to follow their instincts with reference to marriage than that there should be any artificial selection of husbands and wives. The article concludes as-follows :—" I do not doubt that, as the world goes on, a deeper sense of moral responsibility iu the matter of marriage will grow up among us. But it will not take the false direction of ignoring these our profoundest and holiest instiucts. Marriage for money may go; marriage for rank may go ; marriage for position may go ; but marriage for love, I believe and trust will last for ever. Men iu the future will probably foel that a union with their cousins or near relations is positively wicked ; that a union with those,too,|like them in psirsou and disposition is at least undesirable ; that a union based upon considerations of wealth, or any other consideration save considerations of natural impulse, is base and disgraceful. But to the end of time they will coutiuue to feel, in spite of doctrinaires, that the voice of nature is better far than the voice of the Lord Chancellor or the Royal Society, aud that the instinctive desire for a particular helpmate is a surer guide for the ultimate happiness both of the race atrl of the individual Ijjiun any amount of deliberate consultation. It is not the foolish fancies of youth that will, have to be got rid of. but the foolish, wicked, and mischievous interference of parents or outsiders." Ne Qoio Nimt.s.—The history of O'Douovan Rosaa, almost from his youth onwards, is one long record of violent agiation and conspiracy. His name is Jeremiah O'Donovan, but adopting an old Irish custom still occasionally practised, he added to it the name of the town, situated in the county of Cork, near the boundaries of Kerry, in which he was born. Thus he acquired the name by which he is now so well known, o'Donovan Rossa. About ISSS Rossa commenced cireer as a patriot. Iu that year he assisted in establishing, near his native place, a revolutionary society, called the Phiunix Club, the object of which was to revive Irish patriotism. Several of the members including Rossa. were arrested, andoueof the accused wa3. convicted and sentenced to imprisonment For a short time Rossa succeeded iu retraining his patriotism, but presently ho joined with the well-known James Stephens and John O'Mahoney in establishing a p? per for the propagation of their revolutionary sentiments. The new journal was called the Irish People. The Irish People was carried on until 1864, when it was seized by the police. Luby was sentenced to fourteen years and Leary to ten years. o'Douo\an Rossa was convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment for life; but after serving a few years he was liberated on condition that he should leave the British dominions and never return to them. After reaching America, Rossa and his compatriots lost no time in endeavouring again to revive the Fenian organisation, but their violent and coarse behaviour, and the persistency with which they applied themselves to the task of securing state offices, so disgusted the Americans that only some of the worst class joined them. O'Donovan Rossa, indeed, had not long been in New York before he secured the post of immigration agent, which we believe ho still holds. Meantime he has been at the head of the Fenian organisation in America—an organisation comprising only the worst and most ignorant of the Irish population. MII.TON was asked by a friend whether he would instruct his daughters in the different languages. His reply was, "No, sir; one tongue is enough for a woman."