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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2870, 4 December 1890, Page 4

11 is reported that influences due to the mediation of a friendly court are at work which point to an approaching reconciliation between I'rince Bismarck and Emperor William. What Troubles Chicago—They are all upset in Chicago ovci the Comte de Paris' title. Thero isn't a man in the whole town who can say whether Comte is pronounced Com-tea or Compt. At Panama an anti-Chinese society has been formed and the Colombian Government has been petitioned to pass restriction laws, several Chinese were roughly handled recently during a public demonstration. " I had to be away from school yesterday," said Tommy. "You must bring an excuse," said the teacher. "Who from?" "Your father." "He ain't 110 good at inakin' excuses. Ma catches him every time." Miss Helen Graser of Cincinnati is a customs broker and is doing a large business, It is u difficult work that takes a long head and extensive knowledge of the taiilfs and monetary systems of all countries of the world. The island of Cuba is now in a state of excessive lawlessness. The bandit chiefs appear to be in control. In fact, even in the larger cities of Havanna, Santiago, l'ayamo, and Clenfuegos it is unsafe to go about after dark unarmed. One of Emerson's rules of life was this : "Make the most of yourself, fir that is all there is of you." And 110 said to Mr Woodborry: "I do not read the sad in literature. The world is joyous and should not bo painted in black. Melancholy is unendurable; griof is abnormal." Princess Maria Anna of Portugal, who is betrothed to an untitled doctor, is credited with this epigrammatic reply to a friend, who asked her how she could bring herself to marry so far below her own rank : " t prefer to marry a man without a name rather than a name without a man,"