SCINTILLATIONS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXX, Issue 4788, 28 January 1884, Page 4

SCINTILLATIONS.

Forced Politeness— Bowing to necessity. Sarah Bernhardt's nightly receipts, it is said, amount to £500. Rev. Dr. Begg's last sermon was from the text, " It is appointed unto men once to die." latest bulletin about the Maori King is to the effect that, the old gentleman is " drunk again." Hebrew, classes proposed in Auckland UnU'crjit/. ''Roll up, Anglo-Israelites, with your; ?' strange speech and stammering tongue," and add a link to the "identity."' Musical Problem —lf a man blows his '•own trumpet can his opinions be sound 1 ? The Rev. Stephen Gladstone draws a larger stiped— more than £7,ooo— from his rectory of Hawarden than his father receives as Prime Minister. But then he can't have so much fun as the G.O.M. Brownsbn : "Well, I always make it a rule to tell my wife everything that happens." ;■ Smithkins : Oh, my dear fellow that's'' 'nothing: I tell my wife lots of things 'that never happened at all," Noash' Ark was, it is computed, as long as St. Paul!s Cathedral, London, nearly as broad, and half as ■ high. Its tonnage is estimated at from 12,000 to 42,413 tons. The Great Eastern is 55 feet longer than th c Ark was/