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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2325, 4 June 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

JtJDfiK: You say you are innocent. What than, were yon doing with the watch if you didn't intend to steal it. Sam Johnsinp;: I jess wanted ter to wind it up for him, Dat's de solemn troof. I can't tell a lie if [ wus ter try for a week.

The true hero is generous and magnanimous, brave and patient, enthusiastic and earnest. Ho doe.i nut seek occasion for display ; he rejoices in every good or ureal; thing dime by another ; he gladly takes a second place whenever the first can be better filled ; he is rc:idy to :>ct when action is needed, and is ready to wait when patience is required. He is brave without bravado, prepared for duty in whatever shape it appeals to him, and, when finished, he shuns all flourish of applause. Above all, he is no hero in. his own eyes.

Dickkn's Pathos.—Mrs Henry Siddone, a neighbour and intimate friend of Lord Jeffrey, who had license to enter his house at all hours unannounced, and come and go a* she listed, opener! the library door one day very gently to look if he was there, and saw enough at a glance to convince her that her visit'was ill-timed. The bard critic of the Edinburgh Review was sitting in his chair with his head on the table in deep grief. As Mrs Siddons was delicately retiring, in the hope that her entrance had been unnoticed, Jeffrey raised his head and beckoned her back. Perceiving that hi.-* cheek was flushed and his eyes suffused with tea's, she apologised for her intrusion and begged -permission to withdraw. When he found Ui.it she was seriously intending to leave him he aroso iind led her to a SR.it. " Don't go, my friend," he said. " I shall be right again in another minute." "Is anyone dead ?" asked Mrs Siddons. " Yes, indeed," was the reply. " I'm a great gonae to have given way so, but I could not help it. You'll ho sorry to hear that little Nelly, Boz's little Nelly, is dead." The fact was Jeffrey had just read the then last number of '"The Old Curiosity Shop," andhad been thoroughly overcome by its pathos.

Tub day when tho temperature was in the neighbourhood of nothing, a couple of coloured inhabitants of Bucktown were overheard discussing the good luck which a horse .-line brings. Both of tho participants in the. debate wetc of the feminine gender. One w.-is young, go-id looking, and fairly well and affected all the fashionable furbelows of her white sisters, while the other looked as if she hid been a participant in the first Punic war. Her face had been gashed with a razor, one eye was gone, and as she walked she hobbled as if one leg had stopped growing before the other had. She wore a faded calico dress, and there was nothing to indicate that she wore anything to keep oft" the keen and cutting iiir. " I tell yo\ Hannah, yo'ought ter git a hoss shoo and nail oher yo' doah. Dare's no better way tor keep out de cold and had luck," said the young shivering, " There's nothing in it, honey," answered the relic, as her teeth rattled together; "dare's nothing in it. When I got married I got a hull blacksmith shop full hoss shohs and nailed 'em all ober my house. Dey almost took de place ob de shingles on de roof, so many was dare ; and look at me now. Dare's mo' in a good day's washin , dan in a h'indtvd hoss shoes honey."— Cincinnati Times Star.

The pluck and love of adventure characteristic (if Cornishmen have been strikingly illustrated by a winter trip across Siberia, undertaken by Mr C. J. Ureu, the eldest son of the postmaster of Penzanse, and his companion, Mr Lionel Gowing (formerly .'f .Kxehir), special correspondent of tha North China Herald. Starting from Shanghai early in November, and proceeding by way of Japan to "Vladivostock, they had tn wait at the latter place until tho River Anioon was frozen ever, and the snow hrw.l rendered the country fit. for sledging. This did not occur until Dec. 19, when, having put chased their slpdgns, furs, provisions, &c., and converted their capital into Mexican doll'irs, as most convenient for exchange, the travellers took leave of their nutneYou.- friends at Vladivostock, and entered on their long and arduous journey. Tho entire distance covered by sledge was it'oout 5000 miles, and they had to chango horses at over 300 ".tations. The principal places along the Hub of route were, as follows :—Kh\b:irovka, lilaprovestchensk, Stretinsk", Nerchinsk, Chita, Verchne, Udinsk, Irkutsk, Kan«k, Koasn iiirsk, -Tomsk, Omskst, and Tinmen, at which plac* 'he railway was struck, and proceeding thance by way of Ekrateririberg to Perm, they again took sledge for Nijni Novgorod, nnd then by train to Moscow, and on to St. Petersburg, Warsaw, and Copenhagen, Berlin, Paris, &c. _ Latest advices from w* the travellers, received by way of China, tell of a severe snowstorm which they encountered some 1500 miles on their journey, between Kbabarovka and Blavovesfcchensk, which lasted 3G hours/ Their sledge and equipments were much injured, and they had to stay at the latter place some little time to repair damage. Mr C. J. Uren has been absent from England 19 years in the service of the Eastern Extension Australasian and China Cable Company, during which time he haa visited many plaoea of interest in the far Bast,