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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3895, 11 April 1877, Page 3

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THE EARL OF THE DAY. (From the " World.") You must mind and call me Earl now— call me Earl now, Monty dear ! For it's the jolliest feelingrto know oneself a Peer ; To hear oneself call'd Earl is the jolliest thing, I say ; And I know from the Queen that I may, alonty— l know from the Queen that I may. I sleep so sound in the House now that I never can awake, If they don't call me very loud when they want mo now to speak ; So Td better take my peerage and take myself away : Since I know from the Queen that I may, Monty — since I know from the Queen that I may. As I was coming in just now whom think you should I see, But Gladstone, looking as if he long'd to fell me like a tree ; He little thought then, Monty, that I'd be a Peer today ; But I know from. the Queen that I may, Monty— l know from the Queen that I may. He thought that I was rude Monty ; for, dumb with proud delight, I hasten'd my steps and pass'd him, without even saying " Good-night !" He used to call me "Dizzy;" I call myself Earl today; For I know from the Queen that I may, Monty— l know from the Queen that I may. " They say that it means resigning; but that it can never be: They say that my health's declining ; but that's all fiddle-de-dee : There's never an .abler statesman will Bit 'mongst the Peers to-day ; Since I know from the Queen that I may, Monty— since I know from the Queen that I may.

A scientific expedition round the world is being organised in the United States. The voyage, which it is estimated will take two years, is to be performed by a first-class steamship of 1,000 tons burden, Unfitted with saloons for study, lectures, and work, and provided with, steam launches and a sufficient armament. The object is to visit points of general and special interest, especially localities nearly or quite unknown to naturalists, to study their architecture, archaeology, and geology, as well as fauna and flora, and also to make collections. The scientific corps will consist of a faculty of ten, composed of professors of the leading universities. There will be accommodation in the vessel for from sixty to eighty students. A physician and surgeon, a chaplain and a photographer will accompany the expedition, which is to start from New York next July. The proposed course is via the Bahamas, Tertugas, and Havannah, the mouth of the Amazon, Rio, Monte Video, the Falkland Islands, the Straits of Magellan to Valparaiso, thence to the Polynesian Islands, Australia, New Guinea, Celebes (Macassar), Philippine Islands, Hong Kong, Canton, Formosa, Singapore, Malacca, Sumatra and Java, Calcutta, Ceylon, the Laccadive Islands, and Bombay ; thence, via Aden and the Suez Canal, to Alexandria, from which point excursions up the Nile and to Palestine are planned, and subsequently to Constantinople, the chief cities fof Italy, France, and England, and, finally, home by way of the Azores. A lawyer appeared in his case intoxicated, when the judge told him no counsellor could practice at two bars. Young America, going to bed, handed over his new trumpet, saying " Gran'ma, you blow while I pray V