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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2295, 26 March 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

If you would be popular in society, my son, you must possess something that society needs. See how the whole coop runs after the hen with a fat worm in her beak.

The Pall Mall Gazette says that apropos of the expulsion of the French princes, a lover of statistics has drawn up a list of the nionarchs who have come to an untimely or ignominious end. According to this authority, the world has had 2350 kings or emperors, who have reigned over 74 peoples. Of those 300 were overthrown, 64 were forced to abdicate, 2S committed suicide, 23 became mad or imbecile, 100 were killed in battle, 123 were captured by the enemy, 25 were tortured to death, 151 were assassinated, and 108 were executed. Uneasy lies the head, indeed ! Anecdote op Garibaldi.—"A Free Lance," who has served under some famous leaders, writing in the Pall M'lll Gazette, gives sone personal reminiscences of Garibald' from which we extract the following:— AI .-Gordon, Garibaldi was my most famous acquaintance. What impressed me most about him was the immense triceps, or shoulder muscles, he had. They were just like two half cocoanuts sticking up underneath his white Mexican mantle. From Heenan and Morrissy to Mace (Sayers had a remarkably small arm) I never saw anything like it. It would have made two of theirs. And the sabra he used ! Two of the Life Guards' blades forged into one would just have made it. Many a time have I seen that awful sabre sweeping right, left, like clockwork, as he mowed down the enemy like grass, seated on his old white charger, leaving "a lane" (that is the only word) for who followed him closely. " Avanti ? avanti!" rang from his lips all the while, and his trumpet voice rose high above the loudest artillery fire. His strenftih was simply Herculean, and was only surpassed by General Dunne. As an instance of Garioaldi's enormous strength, I remember late one night leaving the CatFe di Europa, in Naples, with some brother officers, and, seeing the general just passing on foot with only one attendant, we followed, as he was going towards an nnlighted and danererous part of the city, which swarmed with Borboni —ex soldiers, sbirri, lazzaroui in the pay of Francis 11. Ho was going to visit one of his dying soldiers, a boy of seventeen. We had not long to wait : like lightning two men spranc at him, right and left, simultaneously, knife in hand. Ere their blades, raised to strike, could fall, Garibaldi had each one by the throat, raised high in air to the full extent of his arms. He then knocked them together two or three times, and then let them drop on the stones. You may guess that our swords were out. But, no ! The great hero said, " Leave them alone : the poor fools have had their lesson,"