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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 247, 20 September 1883, Page 2

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records ; but lives oau only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, arid m a short time, is lost for ever. .•■< ... Wh°n a subscription was proposed^for Fox, and some one was observing, that it would require some delicacy, and wonder* ing how Fox would take it, Selwyn ' said, Take it ? Why, "quarterly to ba sure/ A Green Bay, Wis., mother write" : — ( Are the children of Arabi Bey called Arabi Beybies? .J Helen Taylor, stepdaughter of J John Stuart Mills, is the first women elected to tb.9 presidency of a standing' committee on the London School Board.. : .: ,„• v If the news from New York be true, Mrs E. M. King's divided skirts will be a success m America. It is said that New York ladies are beginning to play'atskiU ties. Petticoats may be compatibleCwith. lawnttennis, but an efficient skittle player must perforce adopt a divided skirt of some sort. A button of smelted gold, weighing about 18dwts, has been shown at the Mining Exchange by a minar, who, said it was the result of a week's work at * the Ninety-mile Beach i The Star Music Hall, Sunderland, has been burned. There were 3400 persona m the ball when the fire originated^ but all got safely out m four minutes. ' Carlotta, the . ex-Empress of Mexico, is said to have recovered from her insanity. Her hair is entirely white. She 'spends much of her time m the stud) of musio,