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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2274, 5 February 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

A Florida grass is sometimes used as a substitute for hog bristles in paint brushes.

An autograph letter, signed A. Lincoln, was shown to a correspondent the other day. It ran thus: "Dear C——-: Do not worry. Eat three square meals a day. Say your prayers. Think of your wife. Be courteous to your creditors. Keep your digestion good. Sfcser clear of biliousness. Exercise. Go slow and go easy. Maybe there are other things that your especial case wants, to make you happy, but, my friend, these, I reckon, will give you a good lift.,' The Primer of Edward VI. (1550) contained a prayer for landlords, from which the following sentence is taken: Wβ heartily pray Thee to send Thy Huly Spirit into the hearts of them that possesses the grounds, pastures and dwelling-places of the earth ; that they, remembering themselves to be Thy tenants, may not rack and stretch out the rents of their houses and lands; nor yet take unreasonable fines and incomes, after the manner of covetous worldings ; but so let them out to others that the inhabitants thereof may be able both to pay the rents, and also honestly to live, to nourish their family, and to relieve the poor. Tim landlord of the new Gasthaus Hasselwerder. on the Oberspree, a summer resort of the Berliners, has had his signboard confiscated by the police on the ground of its blasphemy. The name of the landlord is Adam, and the well-known Conservative journalise Isenbeck, an excellent imitator of the style of the old German minnesingers, suggested that "Paradise" would be an iippropiate name for his new beer garden. Isenbeck wrote him a short poem to be painted on his signboard, in which Adam is made to say that the Lord long ago turned a former Adam out of Paradise, but as Adam's ejection had brought so much misery upon the human race, the Lord had now been generously pleased to provide them with another garden and another Adam to take care of it. The poem had no sooner been fixed up over the entrance to the new " Paradise" than the police ordered it to be removed as " eine Gottelasterung."

Mk. Bright on FoiiErr.N Politics.—Mr Bright has written as follows to a Cheltenham gentleman: —" One Ash, Rochdale, Oct. 20. Dear Sir,—l thank you for your friendly letter, and for your good wishes. As to foreign affairs, I believe all our fears and jealousy of Russia are misplaced. Russia has not made war upon us. England made the Crimean War, which cost Russia some hundreds of thousands of lives. Russia, in my opinion, has no dream even of invading India; and our fear of her arises from our position as conquerors in our Indian Empire. We seize and annex Burmah, and we menace Russia if she approaches Afghanistan. We deny Russia the right of entering the Mediterranean from the Black Sea, and we treat her as an enemy, to be always suspected and guarded against. That Ruasia should in some degree retaliate is not unlikely or unnatural. There is no other country in Europe that would be more friendly with us than Russia would be if England would be friendly with Russia. These views are not easily accepted by those who defended the Crimean War; but something has been learned from that great crime and that great calamity, and I hope no Minister will again be able to drag us into another contost. I wish millions of our people would consider this great question; it might save much to them and their children. Again thanking you for your kind letter, I am, very respectfully yours, John Briuut."