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

Swiss honey which was supposed to be pure and unadulterated is now reported to be made of glycerine and pear juice.

The Pope is stated to have commissioned the Berlin firm of Siemens and Halske to supply the Vatican with the electric light. The dynamo machine is being made, and the entire apparatus will be so far advanced by the end of the year that a start can be made with the installation. A'F the Devon and Cornwall, England, assizes recently, Mr Baron Huddleston paid a somewhat doubtful compliment to the fair sex in one particular direction. " Men," said the learned judge, "as a body are clumsy liars when they tell a lie, but women are much more adroit. That is my experience, though I may be wrong." The Court Journal says: An experiment was recently made of a female omnibus conductor on the new line between Piccadilly Circus and King's-cross, London. She only lasted a day. Most probably she met with an offer of marriage, and closed her connection with one bus to get another as legitimate. Laboucheke says : The zeal of perverts is notorious. When an American dame honours us (as, indeed, many do) with her presence, and obtains access to the charmed circle in which Royalty moves and has its being, her loyalty is effusive. A Mrs Brown Putter, a lady who gave some recitations here last season, writes that of all her mementoes of England, she values most some pins to her by thrs Prince of Wales, and I have observed with surprise that the utterance is deemed so interesting that it is "going the rounds" of the newspapers.

An interesting lawsuit will shortly come before the Paris Courts. The plaintiff, Mdlie. Baudry Lacantinerie, is a lady of good family, and was for some years a nun belonging to the order of "Bon Secours." It is alleged that her superiors, finding her in a chronic state of bad health, gave her notice to leave. The lady now sues for damages for wrongful dismissal. The late Archbishop of Paris, to whom the nuns appealed, decided against the plaintiff, on the ground that she was unfitted for community life. The case promises to afford some curios details, resembling in some way the well-known Saurin case of the English Courts,