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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2289, 12 March 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Rossini, in his last illness, asked bis wife. "What is the difference between Mice and tho clock?" The faithful nurse hesitated, and told the invalid the hour. The composer of " William Tell " answered, " The clock tells me the hours as they pass; thou causest me to forget them." Til 10 world's blind are computed to number about 1,000,000, or about one sightless person in every 1100 inhabitants. The proportion is greatest in Egypt and least in New Zealand, < lermany has the greatest number of institutions for the blind. A f'Kin'Aix learned judge, when attemptting to bo clear, is at times rather perplexing". "My good woman," lie is reported to have said to a witness, "yon must givo an answer, in the fewest possible words of winch you are capable, to the plain and simple <M'e:s!,iuii whether, when you were crossing (he street with the baby on your arm, and the omu'bus was coming down on the right side awl the. cab on the left side and the brougham was trying to pass the omnibus, ye;i saw tin; plaintiff between the bmuidiani mid the cab, or between the omnibus and the c.d.i, or whether and when you saw him at all, and whether o:' not near the broiigli;im'.ii'i, and oinnbas, or either, or any two, and whielnl them respectively -—or how was iff Tiiosh Horkii) Mi-::;. —As a curiosity of by-gone history Mr Thomas Erost speaks in his journalistic reminiscences of the amiable manner of a certain Mrs Colonel 13., at whose house f"'.inning was .accustomed to stay on his visits to .Liverpool, and who had a v/holesouje notion of " keeping people in their place*.'' 4s often, it seems, as the representative of the Albion called on the statesman, she would nrd-;r a chair to bo brought from the kitchen for " the newspaper rnan." This equals Hugo's anecdote of the bourgeois dinner-party where tiie servant asked in an audible whisper if " the man of letters" was to have any of the champagne.