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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Issue 115, 15 February 1895, Page 3

ii The loading Australian mid Xov Zealand shipping companic ; are com 0 bining to raise the freights and p : •• scngor rates, in order to avoid tin present ruinous competition. Frost bells arc tolled in :-on;o di.s tricts of Franco when frost is throa tened. Immediately the inhabitant place quantities of tar between tin k rows of vines'." The tar is li hted aw s volumes of dense smoke arise, thu >' protecting the,vines. c ' Next to rice, wheat is eaten by tin ,'j greatest number of human beings and then eomos maize. The Queen since the day of ho coronation has soon overy throne ii s the world vacated at least onr e. it started at Pahiatua to have the Hon s A. T. Balfour's ostnto thrown oiv-n f<> ,j settlement," A Wellington paper < ; -r v .s:—-Th clearing':nd "r.v.flnf':,,7, ~p rO ., ( t t l\ corniest th-; Tarannln' and I- provincial districts by way of th 1 Aw alt ill o Yallcy - pushk ahead with 3uih .vigour tliafc it i it confidently 0' p ?i I m-v: ' ' ( driven ri.i; (lirmtp •. ?,< / lo f'ng of next session. KHET Af.VJ iw-.1. - | . . --u.ii ~"s rr-ij.i.-il •" NEVER I'AIT<3 i-i tinin • 18 lliati.-;!!?. Luuiijj;,- . ii, „t, r , a. T uo lwttlo gives tvJi-.-f. I'jj- I , r i... • j lv . _ . W, Clayton, l'.Oßos tiJt, lJauatliii. :: , I i <\.i . M . . a

IHE PRETTY GIRLS OF IRELAND. T;;s Irish ladies are perhaps the prettiest in Ihe wide world. Their features, it is true, are less regular than those of English 0.-nmer. bui the.- triumph over lUeni with their soft cr- ;•■ co '.v xior. ■, il'-eir lir;;e, appealin;;'. . :■■;. ■ cyfs lo;- !?."b s, and a sort of ir.de'inable char.v. and demure coquetry, yet i:ior.M':hly mochst manners. •' iCvcry third trish\vor-ian l " \vr.» f e the in bir diary, when last visitin; the country, "is benetifiii, rnd sonifcofthcoi ,'nmnrkaMy so Their hair a"c! eyes are simply lovely." Apart from personal chxr.w, it is in-.pbs-s'blo not to mire t:. o'..ntle and ev rolty of the wives and d;'u:;jiU'rs of Ihe Emera'd Isle. Go where you will, vou v.iji not find an Wsliwoaiitn who io other>•.:« than naturally j distinguished. ' The list of beauties is n lonj; one, and looking back we can recall histories of the extraordinary loveliness of the three Miss Gunnings, who, when they came up to j London, had actually to bo escorted in Hyde Pari-by a guard of soldiers, sent by the order of tills Secretary of State, so overwhelming was the crowd pressing upon them. Then there was Lady Denny, Lady Cahir, Lady Clare, and many others, to say nothing j of the present young Duchess ol Lcin ■:'•■:*, one of the most attractive women of this j or any other day. . A MUSICAL RHAPSODY, i J','. eleven men were seated around the ! stove comparing note when a beat, leaning! heavily upon a stout staff:, entered and j ambled up to the bar. He wore an air of embarrassment, and' there was a perceptible quaver in the tone, as he in-clwhrri if tho bartender would give a glass of rum to a man who bad just returned from a voyage or. the high C"s. "What's that you say ?" inquired Boniface, winking at ihe crowd. " Don't speak solo." " I said drum, and you know it," replied tlie stranger, "Do you take me for a Jlat ?" '■ Who are you, anyhow ?" inquired the bartender, surveying hymn curiously, j " Where do you come from ?" " JTold on 1" was the response. " Give j me a chants and I'll tell you. Your question is a natural one. My name is lien Legato, I am fort i'. years of age, and J hail from Fife. As you may have guessed from the pitch on my close, I am a sailor." " Give me a ;v -said the barkeeper sarcastiMdly. "You think yourself very sharp, don'irsou? You needn't stop any longer; just turn around and march out." " You are not going to sftate me so easily," replied the tramp, "and it will be just as swell for you to understand it in time. I shall try to ignore your slurs, although they do violins to my feelings." " I'll give you a baton the head fugue go on in that way," was the fierce answer. " Don't that symphony ?" laughed the stranger. " What major think of that ?" ! " What a bass-viol pun 1" gasped the bartender. "That r.rh>ttitehe shameful!" said the tramp, attacking the free lunch. " Nov.' counterpoint for me." " Anthem crackers over," ordered the bartender. "Are they minor yours? "Now i galop out." " I won't duet," said tho intruder, leisurely arranging his lie, " until you give me the | required tonic. I could drink a quartet least." j " Skip," said Boniface, producing a smr.ll- | sized canon, " or there may be an accidental explosion " I'm foing tune now," said the visitor, and he made a quickstep for the door and disappeared. ' . vrnpi-.KX LIBRARIES. W w '' r j n | ] all of vii C _b Z ea^!p';ijorp^fi^ s bcei; ' I tiicse t yolumcs. rest were placed one against the o ficr, their total length would represent sonio'r.:yriads c: metroy. There are also . oyer r. 02.c00 jnannscripts in this great • nalit/aal library. Unfortunately the cata- « MJ?-* t jc/noo volumes per ammm. In tlie manua j G■ , Y-L | -Vienna '.'Jot'ooo 20,000 ■ The Bodleian Library, Oxford, which - ciany rare mar.iiscripts ; and tho ' Library, Cambridge, which has now •._>■■ } oo,ooo vols. The chief source of income ' of these two libraries is tho Copyright Act; L joy virtue ol which they can cb.ioi a copy ei I every book or pamphlet published in the I United Kingdom. II DIFFERENT WAYS OF WASHING. I ' Accohdixg to the VurUl of Fa-hitm, the hardest worked washerwomen in the wotkl lie the Koreans. They liave to W ash ■ about n dozen dresses for iivjiv hnrha'-- 1 •• and inasmuch as every man wears pan' /nlonns or rlrnwr>r<; IvT.oy , come up to his neck; like those, of a clown, they have plenty to do. The washin i:' - visually done in cold water, and often in - limning streams. The clothes are pounded , with padti:; s until ihcv shine like a siiiri bosom fresh from a Chinese laundry. The Japanese rip their clothes apart for every - washin", ?nd they iron their clotlr. s h> . spreading them on a fiat board and leanin; s l h.is up a;;ainst the liouse to dry. i'iie 5,111: takes the wrinkles out of the clothes, anc ; some of them liave quite a lustre. The 1 Japanese woman does her washing oat o j doors. Her wasluub is not more than sb inches high and is about as big around a> '.he average dish-pan. She gets the dir: out of the clothes by rubbing them betweer ' tor hands. She sometimes uses Japanese soap, which is full of grease, and she work: v away in her bare feet. The. Chinesei-irlsds. i their washing in much the same ray. Th: pretty, short-lnired bean lies of S ; ani v.'e.ai their {.'owns on them in the big river, an: wash them while taking their bath. Wher . they; i. through, thoy trot up the step? o r then floating houses, 'a-.n.!. v . ing a i.i : ■ sheet around their bodies, llie'v s!?;i oi' th: wet cl.,!hos frorn under it and wring then out _!•> dsf washing in Egypt i: n |! ' • !l ""i slaps the wet clothes', with ; n I- old [h, of a plstr.l, oh'the .rno.rtl 1 : at !!"•. ed-:e of the : .r. !o r, roo Iloi.es as ih- do. c.a.ke . iUtti, aeU, bed-hain e . , soi.ii oc!:-utbit.), :|;j 1 ■ a.;, gojihei . Al l iv.uue aud druggibta T *