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The Comtesse de Paris lias ordered 1500 small gold roses to present to some of the mi'st faithful adherents of her husband's family. Tub Marquis de Mores and his party, in a recent hunting expedition in India, with the assistance of seventy elephants, killed twenty-one tigers.

At the moment when the war-ship Warrior rescued a party of French balloonists they were casting lots as to who should throw himself out, to lighten the balloon.

O'Donovan' Roksa, writing to tho United Irishman on tho Parnell Defence Fund, says: "Mind, you men, Parnoll wauls it to bo clearly branded into your mind that it is a crime, a shame, and a disgrace to have anything to do with the

killing of tho English invaders of Ireland. Parnell feels previously assailed in character because tho English say he had any-

thing to do with the killing of Cavendish and Burke. Ho goes to law with the killing of Cavendish and Burke. Ho goes to law with the English and he calls on you to pay the expense. You are worse than niggers, lower than niggers, worse than slaves, lower than slaves, if you degrade yourselves thus far by contributing to such a fund. Don't you know that the English in Ireland will

have to bo killed or driven into tho sea before Ireland can bo free."

Miss Lottie Donn, the champion tennis player of England, is IS years old and has been an expert player for eight years.

A Highland crofter who had been much annoyed with hares and rabbits eating up his scanty crop determined to retaliate. He set some snares in his croft one night among the turnips, with the result that a largo fat hare was discovered in one of them noxt morning. Just as the_ crofter was about to appropriate tho animal, he observed the game-keeper hurrying towards him, so, taking the hare by the fears, he gave it a kick, and sent it off about its business as fast as it could run ; then, turning with well-simulated indignation towards tho Biimo-Ueeper, he said, "I've stood this kind o' wark sao lang as yer beasts ran lowse amang my naeps, but I'll be hanged if I'll alloo ya to tether them !"

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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2570, 29 December 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)

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Untitled Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2570, 29 December 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)

Untitled Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2570, 29 December 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)

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