Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 5 April 1892, Page 3

Notes and Events.

An English paper has the following : -A Certain gentleman possesses two dogs, a Newfoundland and a terrier. They both sleep in the same konnel, and the Newfoundland, during winter, invariable takes the inmost part of it to rest in. His superior strength enables him to do so, but the strategy of the terrier overcomes him. As soon as thoy are comfortably settled down the little dog runs out into the yard and barks vehemently. The Newfoundland at last, thinking there is something to be encountered, sallies forth himself and prowls aroiihd foi 1 the the foe, but no sooner has he emerged than the terrier bolts in and secures the inside berth . S uperiority ef mind over matter.

Two. policemen going theii' routtds in the small hours in the lugubrious quarter of La Roquette, Paris, were surprised to find the body of a young Woman lying in a doorway, and deeply shocked When* having taken her to the nearest lamp-post For further investigation, they discovered that she was of a deep red colour, similar to that of the American Indian, and that she was absolutely devoid of costume, not having so much as a feather or a row of beads to protect her from the cold atmosphere. At first they concluded that Buffalo Bill had returned to Paris, and that this was one of his young lady Sioux who had stayed out too late, but on the damsel being conducted to the police station and thoroughly thawed she was able to explain her case in fluent, if somewhat ." Cockney," Parisian. She had on the previous evening made the acquaintance of two young men, who invited her to a copious dinner, which they, however, failed to provide Instead of doing so they plied their guest with potent fire-water, and, having rendered her quite helpless, painted her red from head to foot.

Truth says : — Historical parallels have been drawn between the death of the Duke of Clarence and that of the Princess Charlotte of Wales in 1817. It seems, however, to have escaped observation that the Queen owes her existence to the last mentioned calamity. On the death of Princess Charlotte, there was a mild panio concerning the succession. Notwithstanding the huge family of George 111. and Queen Chariote, the Princess Charlotte was at the time of her death the only living descendant of the royal family in the second generation. The Princo of Wales, her father, had repudiated his wife. The Duke of York, the Duke of Cumberland, the Queen of Wurtemburg, and the Duchess of Gloucester, (Princess Mary) were all childless. The Duke of Sussex's marriage had been set aside and the children repudiated. Strenous efforts, supplemented by liberal grants of money, were accordingly made to get the elderly bachelors and spinsters ofthe royal family married, with the result that the Dukes of Clarence, Kent and Cambridge, and the Princess Elizabeth, were all married off in 1818, at the respective age 3of 53, 51, 44, and 48. These heroic measures were crowned with success by the birth of. two children of the Duke of Clarence t (both of whom died in infancy), * besides the Queen, the Duke of Cambridge, and the Duchess of Took.