MISCELLANEOUS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume V, Issue 767, 7 April 1884, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

♦■ Diamonds are a good deal like bens. Much depends on their setting. Although the lower animals cannot talk, they are nearly all tall bearers. It is the man who has nothing to be discouraged about who is most discouraged. " What are you doing with my boots on ?" indignantly asked a high State official of a colored gentleman. "Is dese here your boots, boss ?" — " Of course they are."—" Dats mighty cuis." — " Nothing curious at all, you scoundrel. You found them in try room when you cleaned up." — Wall, dats mighty cuis. Yer ken hab de boots, sar, ef da's yerself s." — " I wouldn't have them now." — "Den what yer wanter make all die great 'miration 'bout ? White folks getting wuss ebery day. De blame boots I too little £or me nonow." — A.vVcU\sa.vj Txa,\elleTC. So the marriage of Miss Fortescue with her titled suitor is broken off. It is stated (says Truth) that the exbridegroom wrote a letter to the young lady, informing her that she would do well to place herself in the hands of her solicitor. Twenty thousand pounds is the very lowest damages which Miss Fortescue ought to receive, for a more complete repudiation of a matrimonial engagement on the part of a man cannot be conceived. Not a breath of scandal has ever been whispered against Miss Fortescue. After a lengthy engagement, and parading the young lady about at theatres as his affianced bride, her late lordly suitor announces to her that he will not marry her, and sends her to her solicitor lor consolation. There was no sort o£ social difference ' between the two. The lady was the j daughter of a London trader, the gentleman the relative of a Belfast trader. The fact that she had been on the stage surely cannot be brought j against her, for in the estimation of most sensible persons a girl who earns her livelihood honestly is, to say the least, the equal of a youth who owes his position to his father's talents. It is said that Mr. Gilbert is arranging the matter. If so, he will be sacrificing his client if he takes one farthing under £20,000.