SCISSORS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4174, 6 December 1884, Page 4

SCISSORS.

The Roman Catholic Church of St John built by tho Marquis of Bute, at Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, has (says the Times) recently been fitted throughout with tho electric light. The tenacity of the Indian memory is very great. It is said that the Mic Mac Indian still chant the Gregorian Masses, taught them centuries ago by the Jesuit missionaries.

A Chinese merchant thus expresses his idea of the French-Chinese Avar: "It likee this: I come to your door and lickee you, and I wanteo you to pay money to me for I lickee you. You that light ? What kind a 'ligion that ?" A wonderful farm is that known as Baldwin's Santa Anita Ranch in Los Angeles County, California. It comprises 1200 acres in grapes, 16,000 orange and lemon trees, 2000 j pomegranatcs, 3000 English walnut trees, 2000 almond trees, 2500 peach trees, 4000 pear trees, 2000 apricot trees, 1000 fig trees, and substance is furnished for 25,000 head of sheep, 2000 cows and pigs and several hundred horses and mules, and this year before harvest could have been seen 17,000 acres of golden grain. A terrible story comes from Shewsb.ury Province of Quebec, which will long be remembered in that village. A short distance from Shcwsbury there rssides a farmer named Leblanca, a French-Canadian. On leaving home a few mornings ago to work in the woods he told his wife to send their daughter, who was 1-6 years old, with Ids dinner at noon. After waiting until 3 o'clock in the afternoon he concluded to go home, as no dinner had arrived. He shouldered his gun and started, but before he had gone far he noticed an immense boar apparently eating something. He watched it for a moment and fired, missing his mark. While reloading he could see that it was a human being the bear was devouring. He then rushed up to within easy gunshot, discharging his rifle into the bear, which rolled over°to reveal the body of his little daughter, disfigured and almost beyond recognition. The flesh had been torn off her legs and face, while she still held in her hand the tin can containing her father's dinner. An extraordinary case was tried at tho Geraldton (Queensland) police court a few weeks ago. The story, as told in court, was as follows:—Two sisters (Margaret Selina and Eliza Jane) both claim to have been married by the same parson, in the same church, of the same town, on the same day of the same year, and to the same man —the defendant in the case ; and each sister declares that the other assisted as her bridesmaid during the ceremony. But, to disturb the sameness of the foregoing proceedings/the two claimants can only produce one marriage certificate between them, and it, unfortunately for Eliza Jane, is correctly' drawn out in her elder sister's name; but the former adroitly tries to overcome this slight difficulty to her wedded (?) life by explaining that, as she was under age on the date of her marriage, three years ago, she adopted Margaret Selina's name for tho occasion, the register being signed accordingly, and that the fact of Margaret Selina having possession of the certificate is accounted for by her (Margaret Selina) haviug obtained it from Eliza Jane in order to silence some aspersions which were being made in their neighborhood against the latter sister's character, the said documcut not having since been returned to the original possessor. Eliza Jano is, however, not consistent in her statements, or is affiicted with sad weakness of memory, as eho declared to the Bench in the same breath that, although she was twenty at the time of marriago in ISSI, she does not know what year she was born in. Both sisters have born children to tho vcry-much-married defendant, who supports the claim of Eliza Jane, notwithstanding the marriage lines produced by her sister, and he ignores the latter as his wife, and refuses her maintenance. The Bench, not being able in these days to exercise the summary jurisdiction of King Solomon in the case of the two would-be mothers of the same child, allowed Margaret Selina's appeal for support, towards which the defendant was ordered to pay £1 per week for fifty-two weeks under heavy bond.