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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2650, 6 July 1889, Page 2

Many of the Pennsylvania collieries that wore closed recently through slackness of trado have been re-onened.

.japan's trade goes by leans and bounds. In lriNS the total value of the imports and exports was IJI million dollars ; in it was only 10-1.

An international congress of spiritualists will be held in Paris in September, when some curious views and experiences of tie occult sciences are expected.

The South American cotton planters have decided in future to use only cotton sacking in place of jute, and also to start works for the manufacture of the sacking.

Oi' course it is known that the Sultan of Turkey marries his slaves to hi.s officials. In all about 100 girls are wedded from '.he palace yearly, and each of them is entitled to receive £10,000. Unfortunately, the bridegroom who takes a wife from the Sultan's hands mint make a present of a slave to keep the ser-iglio up to its full number.

AItTKMU.S W.utn had a poorly-painted panorama. When anything especially had appeared, he would g.i/.o admiringly at it, and then, with a look of reproach at the audience, remark, " This picture is a great work of art. Jtisan oil painting done in petroleum. It is by the old masters. .It was the last they did before expiring. 1 wish you were nearer, so that you could •see it better. I wish 1 could take it to your residences and let you see it by daylight. Some of the greatest artists come here every morning before daylight with 1 interns to look at it. They say they nevi-r saw anything like it before, and hope they never will again." Then, pointing to s. aie vile splashes of paint, "These are intended for horses. I know they are, because, the artist told me so. After two years he came to me and said, 'Air Ward, I cannot conceal it from you auy longer. They are horses.'"