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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2331, 18 June 1887, Page 6 (Supplement)

He who commits a wrong will himself ineviatably see the " writing on the wall," though the world may not count him guilty. The Sportiug Times prints an odd story from Newmarket- giving an account of a superstition prevalent at that place among ■countrv people. It is believed there- that every night the ghost of Fred. Archer, mounted on a grey horse, rides madly over tho heath in that neighbourhood. :It is said that.this superstition is shared by some of, the gentry-as well as the country people.', CiiAi'LAiN Allison, of the Minnesota Legislature, in his prayer recently' remembered the newspaper fraternity as follows :—', Arid now, dear Lord, bless the ■reporters,: whose nimble pens catch every word almost before it is uttered. Like Thyself, they ;are omnipresent; and almost omnipotent. If we take the wings of,'the morning and* fly ' to the uttermost parts: of the' earth'/ > they are there. They meet us in the jungles of ; Afrioa, they way

lay us in the solitary canyons of Colorado, when-a't length wefind the latitude of the magnetic pole, behold there they are. May their light and goodness be equal to their power, and in the general assembly of heaven let no reporter bo' excluded." ~ There is nothing that provokes more critioi.sm, : and< is looked: upon as more exorbitant than the prices charged for "ads'" by newspapers; Advertisers apparently think that they are being asked a great deal too much. ■ What will they say to the following! prices which-three of the American papers charge—and get too ?., AiColumn in the ! Chicago Tribune costs the advertiser £5,200 per annum. The New York Herald receives for the lowest price £7,300, and for its highest price, £12,600 per annum for a. columns. The New York' Tribune for its lowest gets £4,250, and forits highest £17,000 for the same space, and those papers, it is said, never;laok for advertisements to fill their columns. The Americans are considered shrewd people, and calculate well the cost of what they undertake. The occupation of a shoeblack in London seems to bo-morb profitable and is certainly less laborious than that of many a clergyman these hard times. :Krom the report of the South London Shoeblack Society just issued, it appears that during the past year the earnings of the boys amounted to .£B9l. j2s 9d., giving an average of 10s 9-Jd earned per boy per week. Not only clergymen but distressed land owners, and a host of others who now have a difficulty in finding means of subsistence, might do worse than invest a few shillings in a bottle of blacking and some brushes, and, stationing themselves at the corners of the streets, make a pleasing addition to their scanty incomes,