The World.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2346, 23 July 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

The World.

1 TItK following arc extracted from llw London .society papers and »• her journals.) “ One di V lately," writes a corre.-pon-dcnl, “ 1 dined a( a table covered with sc a weeds, in-lead of 110-.vvrs, irnnip'd ai'uund pink glow-worm lights. The client was most, faii.'y like. These weals were all of the comm hit, but more fragile sort timed f.iwii, pale liro'.vo, and delicate rose Wo liavo .all .seen the albums of pressed British Alga l —Hat ami monotonous, Th.-se are'quite different. The weed is natural.".! vith something which sl.illens it, so that.il dries in its tree like form just, as it tie its in its native pools. It, is daintily coloured in soft, hazy tones, tied together ia little plumes, and forms an cxqni-itc riovilty for persona! or laid dee..ration. It, costs no more than real flowers, a e! i-, of cooise not ovanwent. Photography has never reproduced natnr il colours. Scientists explain this fact (he stall m. at that colour has no objective existence. Il i.s simply the brain’s interpretation of the rapidity with which the waves of a ray of light heat, against the retina, ll al.s more rapid produce the sensation of the mind known as violet ; heats less rapid, that known ns red. Violet and red are nothing but vibrations of the other until tin y reach the optic nerves and r.ominnnicato tbo vibrations, which the brain translates. To photograph colour is therefore l as impossible as to photograph sound.

A cabman committed suicide in Paris on April 20 under very singular circumstances, On the table of ids room, where lie had strangled himself to death with his neckerchief, tlie police found a letter written in p.-neil, ft was in an envelope ad-dres-sil ■' to any one." It was as follows; “ I leave this world because it pleases mo to do so. I have had enough of driving people about iu this world. 1 am going to S. e if in the other world people drive differently, AH that 1 ask is that no fuss may he made about me.” Au action I'm- libel having hern brought by til.' editor ~f (lie lletiin Yolks /Killing against. Pi inee lli-marek .m amnint of a speech deliv.-red by him in Hie llelelistag, in which lie at ticked the newspaper in que.-thm, the Court declared I hat Hie mattor was not in its jurisdi "lion, as Prince Bismarck is a G-iinali general, and therefore only amenable to a military tribunal. Tile n't overs of I i i.nessre are up in arms at the law pti'M (1 at. (lie It.si, session of the hgisl.ilnre putting a coal-oil lax on dealer,-. The effect, it is claimed, will he to drive Idle grocers out of the market, leaving the field to the Standard Oil Company, which can raise the price high enough to pay the tax. Gounod is now engiged on a mass which is to be piodueed at Rheims Cathedral. A new ami most wonderful musical instrument is announced. It is a sharp played by pianoforte keys. New York Truth says: Mrs Frank Leslie on her departure for Europe was referred to as “charming and beautiful.'’ She may bo all tills but she certainly doesn’t look it.

Mrs Mm-kay has now s'ttleu down in Buckingham (life, London, for the season. Mho will shortly be joined by Mr Mackay from America, ami her son-in-law and daughter irom Paris.