GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9154, 8 September 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

GENERAL NEWS.

LORD TENNYSON AS A READER. The following letter of Sir Henry Tavl to Lady Taunton contains a curious ;i cc ° of the Laureate's reading:"l ani u <*ni that you took pleasure in Alfred and his reading. I hope you sat up with him 0 v * his pipe, for no one knows how a *ree- kT he can be without that experience w,k him. As to his reading, he is a d mouthed hound, and the sound of if"''" very grand; but I rather need to know h heart what he is reading, for otherwiL r find sense to be lost in sounds from tirnp 6 time ; and, even when I do not know ,'; t0 the words are, I think more of artir- u l Htis wanted to give the consonantal i-Her'f .'° nthe rhythm ; for without these effects U'' melodious sinks into the mellifluous in ordinary utterance ; and even when intonH by such an organ as Alfred's, if the i, o ', be of a high order, the rhythm so sourd«"i loses something of its musical and mer - its intellectual significance." ° re 01 A ROMANTIC STORY. A remarkable incident, the particular- • which are vouched for, is reported f* °' Dublin. Just eight years ago a yJ CjTn Dublin engineer and the daughter !- n " wealthy farmer, who was also ] ir.j engaged in the Dublin provision t!H y . were married. The bride had managed V'J provision business for her family,'anil ',"! described as an amiable and iov e j v „■'*? After the marriage the wedding party I to Glendalough, and a most enjovable d • almost up to the hour of returning u- . spent, the company being a large one Vh ' a some misunderstanding occurred ; the newly-wedded pair. The | )r ;,i t ., r „ " n , left the company in anger and Walk??! tl'» | eight miles back to the city in time to t"kp i the evening steamer to Liverpool, and fro " j that period until a few days he w"I never heard of. The bride felt her<le«ertf' j keenly, but she stuck to her business. HeI father meantime died, and she was left '' j sole charge of great responsibilities Xr-> wanderer was forgotten, or believed to hive died, and some time since another suitor -j 1 . . . , suitor I succeeded in gaining her affection*. 'file wedding was arranged for an early Jay end invitations had been issued, when thedon" missing husband put in an appearance Ii the city. He had been all these years in New. Zealand, and had made money, which he had come home to share with hi- wife who, "strangely enough," adds the correspondent, "felt all the old love for him revive." Tin: cost or drkss. Writing on " Dress and Economy" in t'h.» July number of Longman's Magazine, Mr/ j Henry Reeve gives us some very remark-

able " facts and figures and other data for the construction of a scale of expenditure and of ratio to income of tin.* cost of clothes." The writer has evidently been a: much pains to collect these facts. &0., from various informants; and though the-'; latter often prefer to give the hou.-e-reni? they pay rather than the income th-v possess, their information is surprising enough. One lady, who has a "small income of £800 a year," finds £30 enough for her dress. Another who, with her husband enjoys an income of 1500 (no children), spends only £50 on her dress, while her husband's averages £20 10s per annum. Again, a professional man with "i'vlOoOa year to spend" gives his two daughters £-Wa year for dress, and a "gentleman who shoots, plays tennis, mixes in the bttc society in town and country, and travels on the Continent," spends only £2"2 a year on his raiment. Finally, an inquiry anion'' twenty-eight bachelors (including M.l'.'?, civil servants, barristers, and country squires) shows a maximum expenditure of £34 and a minimum of £14, or an average of £23 a year spent on dress. .TAJIKS OAKF.YS GRAVE. Mr. Charles Du Val, who is now in South Africa, has written to Ireland a detailed account of a visit he has made to the jrravs of James Carey, the notorious informer, who was shot on a voyage to the Cape by the man O'Donnell. Carry's body lies in an unenclosed graveyard on the rise of a hill a: Port Elizabeth. None but coloured people and persons who have died in gaol are la: in this burial-place. Carey'sgrave is next tea Kaffir's, and on a large white round stone ac the head are written badly in lead pencil the words, "J. Carey, the Irish informer.'' Some unknown person comes and writes this inscription when time or the weather obliterates the words. Some bands of tinted iron have also been erected to resemble a cross. This is frequently removed, but is always mysteriously replaced.

CONFESSIONS OF AN AD VKNTI - R3.

Miss Esther Honnsome. about .'lO year? of age, who has just been admitted to the workhouse of Elham, Kent, has. according to herownaccount, had a remarkable career. She arrived at Hvthe about 15 months mo, and. it is alleged, took a handsomelyfurnished bouse on the brinks of the canal. The fact of occupying such a house enabled her to get credit. She now and then displayed a roll of what purported to be bank notes ; but what chiefly brought her into note was a story she told of her having recently come into a fortune of £40,(MX). She subsequently removed to still more pretentious premises in 1 Joucrlus Avenue, furnishing the place sumptuously on the credit system. In the meantime she was received in the best society, and drove about with the principal ladies of the town ; she gave afternoon teas, and altogether moved in local society as a lady of position and wealth. At one drapery establishment she ran up a debt of over £100. As length, through the instrumentality ot a pressing creditor, the crash came. .She was besieged with applications for money, her furniture was seized, and she has now been removed to the workhouse. Although of ladylike appearance, Miss Honnsome is by no means an educated person, and she now confesses that she has been a domestic servant, her last position being that of lady's maid. She owes nearly £1000 to Hythe tradesmen alone.

K F.PINO WARM

It may nob be generally known tiiar, when exposed to severe cold, a feeling ot warmth is readily created by repeatedly tilling the lungs to their utmost extent hi the following manner : — Throw tne shoulders well back, and hold the head well up. Inflate the lungs slowly, the air entering entirely through the nose. V\ hen the lungs are completely filled, hold the breath for ten seconds or longer, and then expire 155 quickly through the month. Alter repeating this exercise while one is chilly, a reeling of warmth will be felt over the entire body, and even in the feet and hands. It > important to practise this exercise many times each day, and especially when in the open air. If the habit ever becomes universal, then consumption and nianv other diseases will rarely, if ever, be heard of. Not only while practising the breaming exercise must the clothing be loose over the chest, but beginners will do well tJ remember, in having their clothing fitted,_ to allow for the permanent expansion ot one, two, or even three inches, which wid eventually follow. —Iron. THE REPORT OF THE HERMAN" rHVSICIA>'=With reference to the report of tae German physicians on the case of the late Emperor Frederick, which has just published, the British Medical Journal l ' authorised to state that no reply will be made thereto by Sir Morell Mackenzie tor the present. This resolution has been adopted solely in deference to wi*' l -® which Sir Morell Mackenzie feels bo im to respect; but at the same time he 1 3 anxious that it should be generally known that the German report contains serious misstatements of fact and erroneous inferences, the untruth of which he will 6 able to prove if the prohibition now I- uc upon him is withdrawn.

A ROMANTIC STORY. ._ A romantic story about the Glasgow* ex bition is going the rounds. An official, unstated, picked up a lady's pocket-book [ ll ' r atthemomentagentleman was passing. latter naturally stopped and assisted official in looking for a clue to the owner o the purse. " Oh," exclaimed the otlicia last, " here is the owner's photograph, • J way," and then hastened to a _• as he took it out of the ' Why, no, it isn't its not a photograph at all. It looks i excuse me for saying it—extreme!) i <■ , of yours, sir," and he turned to the g^ l man who had been assisting himlatter at once admitted that it was ..u- ( i graph, and said he thought he could the lady to whom the purse belonged. - he did find her, the romance of the - J being that the discovery of the P!; £ revealed to him the young lady s They are to be married next month.

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