WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 5226, 19 November 1877, Page 3

WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.

("ritloa” in the TTortd.) . ■’ I extract a few maxims from a book: entitled Misanthropie at JRepentir, written by Laurent Jan, a painter who died last week in Paris:— “Women only tolerate intolerance.—An honest man should bold as sacred all that the law does not recognise: 1. A word of honour ; 2,. A gambling debt;, 3. A duel j 4 A friend’s sweetheart. When the friend marries, three obligations only are left.—-Modesty is only a question of number; .that which shocks a chaste woman when there are three persons present makes her smile, when there are but .two.” ~ ,

Paroa placeni parvis ; and a very small and mild joke indeed does lot the Hpose of Commons when it:: is in a laughing humour. When it • was announced that Mr: W.H. Smith waa to be the new First Lord, the following epigram went the round of the House of Commons lobby and smoking rooms, and was much appreciated : ... {

. ’Tie Ukoly Blr Smith may make ’ ' : :-A paper fleet.,tie true; ' : { i And 0, may other countries’ fleets Prove stationary too! I think it is Major Butler who tells .the story, iu one of his charming books, of an American who was "on the shoot,’■ loosing off his revolvers in the street of a Western town soon after the great war. He did not hit the man he aimed at, but he shot a judge and two major-generals, "and it wasn’t a good day for major-general# either.” I wonder if the War Office' actuaries have been told , to oaloulate.how many.major-generals there,will bo in this country when the E.-lirerpent scheme has come into full play, and all; the, colonels' of 55 years'old are compelled to retire; with a step of honorary rank. _; _ Lord O'Heill may be a very good musician, but he must be a very bad poet. The Belfast journals state that when the Lord Lieutenant was on a visit to Shane’s Castle last week,;'f at the church-gate the ohoir and Sabbath School children sang the NatiOnM Anthem, which was supplemented ;by the following verse, specially composed-by Lord G*Jsfeid: > i To him who bears' her sword ■ Gladly with one accord ‘j| cl C ...j.' - • Welcome we slngr. ! Ho. with hia'Boble spouse, Calls’fortb our beata^plunse; EaoU heart "with rapture glows, Tiuo to otu Queen. The Viceregal party left shortly afterwards,” And I think the "Viceregal party were right. Poo go (literally "a monkey without a tail") is hot a term new to England. A Woolwich correspondent reminds- me that’ the mess of the cadets far service in the East Indies; previous to the deorass of Company Bahadur, used to be-known as the Pongo mess Being superior to theological prejudices 1 do not care whether ! the shampooer* in the Turkish baths be Christians, Jews, Brahmins, Hindoos, or Mussulmansj but Is there no form of faith which abjures onions ? A manuscript found recently in La Boohelle contains some interesting particulars oh. the Maid of orieanf, wbo; far from being a fair woman, sis tome artists have depioted.was very dark; her ; hair was out like a page, And straight across the forehead j and she wore a, m%vXydren l pourpoi»tMir,chatu>esattdch4«a, robe oourle de grot grit miret «» ohapeau noir-. hot a very, httraptive. costume, j This document, which ha* been published in the Berne MUtoriqee, throwsacme lighton Count Suffolk and the siege of Jargeau,aa wall'as on the trial of La Puoolls. i ~ How hard it is to make a living in this huge Mlflsh city ! Here isjm that' means a great deal: ** Envelopes ad* dressed; 8s per 1000, by a young lady—good quick writer,” My dear young lady—hot the poor 1 sid who advertises, but youwhb read your World aa you loonge r ih'yonr easy-ohair, —can yon spare one moment jast tocouat up what this means? Well, if you were'to sjt down, and address an envelops erery minate of every hour for seventeen consecutive hours, without stopping for food or could earn three shillings. Do you khofhdfr much peau de wide, four buttons, are 4 pair, my dear? >-■■■■ r«r; - The Japanese are not unmindful of the passing phases of Western politics, especially those whioh concern the Eastern question. In an influnotwl natiTe j ourasl lately appeared a leading article formulating the fear that if Itruggle.her next step would be to turn her attention towards the extension Of her territory and swallow up Japsp. Sweden is uneasy tooj but, happily, the mind of new Caledonia is undisturbed. ■ ~ „ • Mr Archibald Vorbee surpassed himself on Monday last in the account of the fighting m the Shipia Pass, which appeared In the Doriy Kent. By dint of hard riding, without food or real for the whole Of one night ondia day, be reached the Bussian head quastjra at Odlrhi Student on Saturday, id advance of all the aid esdeoarop whom the Grand Duke.h»d sent to the field of battle to bring back the news of events as they occurred. Learning this, the Emperor of the Bussisue immediately requested a personal interview, and heard from Mr JTorbes all those details of the fighting which be wee anxiously waitiog to learn from hie own officer*. At; the close of the interview Mr Forbes wee desired by the Emperor to at onoe proceed, to his brother- the Grand Duke, the Ooromander-inObief, at whose hands Mr Forbes-want through what he describes as equal to a regular oompelitivasxamination, so searching and minute were the (tries of questions put by his Imperial Highness. Its Emperor had shown a thorough conversance witn' tbs military art, and Mr Forbes had been able to relieve hie Majesty’* 4nxW jr eonearning the eupply of food to hie, brave soldiers, by felling him of the kettles be saw bubbling over amid the whir of bullets j but the Grand Duke was more ttohnioftllj m*sltr of it W only by drawing a pl|n of the operations, and supplementing It,by, verbal dsaoriptiob, made from a wide area of observation, twl Mr Forbes was able to satisfy tbe Oommandsr-in-Obiet of the

Uts onwjiicFße llhf for; ■ SwSburarhas*" nnder the nomfy plume, ptMn Horae* Mann* in a weekly periodioaL I am glad to bsar that it is complete ; the entlre manasoript Is to the publisher’s hands. Originally the story was writted for pnbliostion to’ a' paper to be called The Marlborough, which paper has never seen the light. * ; ? r ] The. tightness of a lady's, dress the 'other day at a garden party won froin me such surprise and admiration -that an old dowager, whom;!, have'Known-tin'oe 1 was a child) chided me gently< ' "But it is most surprising," I maintained) " how can she get her dresi on over—over her other things P V ” It’s not diffloult,” replied my’ interlocutrix. "I happened to be to the Cloakroom with her just aoW j sbe was having a stitch put to Somewhere; and I found that her’other things,.consisted in a tight flannel jersey and a pair of tight wash-leather—you know.” And there the confidence landed.

Alfreico ’'religion” will shortly have developed itself abffidently to need a special organ.. This U truly refresbiag to Ml sincere Christians. I was So, oh; so gratified at an advertisement to a religious oentemporary—not the Sporting Piffles—last week, that I copy ifsnd give iciho benefit of ea additions! circulation among those who may not yet have been awakened“ WalteyPenrose,.formerly &. costermonger, is open for, the Lord's work, to- doors or open-sir, accompanied by his obromatio concertina.—Address, Costermongers’ Cottage .Mission, Yinegar Ground, City road, EjO.” - Evangelism alone is mighty, but': aided by. the obromatio oonoertioa it must be irresistible. How soon. may we expeok the Old Eohdreth with a trombone effect, or St Paul to the Oorintbune punctuated with castanets and' cymbals ? One more advertisement’ from the sacks pious sheet: —“A Christian gentleman, ont daring the day and'seldom home at night, oan be - accommodated ~ with comfortable apartments in Holloway. Partial board, with train’arid 'bus if required.” I hodbeen artless enough to imagine that Christian gentlemen', like Mr John Lawrence Toole, always came home to tea. Seriously speaking,; this .thing is a degradation to religion, ‘ .

A Slight Mistake.— The “Sleepy,Hollow ” people are always distinguishing themselves to some extraordinary way,or' another. Last week two sportsmeh (save, the mark!) war* charged at the Nelson Police Ootut with having shot a lamb, and th# defence was that they mistook the animal for a quail. The case turned ont to bo more serious than was at first imagined, for (he Bench committed both men for trial, bail being allowed in a personal recognisance of £2OO and two sureties of £IOO each. The prosecutor valued the lamb at 10s. ’ , ‘