GENERAL NEWS.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6139, 27 August 1886, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

New York is said to be just now Buffering irom an unprecedented plague of rate that it would seem if Lord Mayor Whittiugton's time had come again. The city authorities have been forced to hold special sittings to consider how they shall deal wiih this sudden increase of population. Many dwellinghouees are said to have been rendered quite uninhabitable by them.

It is well known that by the laws of Enghnd the Lord Chancellor is held to be the guardian of the persons and property of all Buch individuals as are said to be no longer of sound mind^and good disposing memory— in fine, to have lost their senses. Lord ChaDcellor Loughborough once ordered to be brought to him a man against whom his heirs wished to make out a statute in lunacy. He examined Dim attentively and put various questions to him, to all of *bich he made the judge most pertinent and opposite anewere •« 1 his men mad 3" thought he ; "verily he » one ol the abl^t men I ever met with " Towards the end of hi B examination however, a little scrap of paper, torn from a letter, was put into Lord Loughborough's hands, on which wat written "Ezekiel" This was good enough for such ' a shrewd and able mau as his Jordßhjp. He forthwith took hia cue. J " What 6ne poetry," said the Chancellor, "i« in Isaiah !" » Very fine," replied the man, "especially when read in the original Hebrew." "And how well Jeremiah wrote!" " Surely," said the man. "What a genius, too, was Ezekiel ! ' "Do you like him V said the man ; •« I'll tell you a cecret — I am Ezekiel i"

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