GLEANINGS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 934, 24 January 1890, Page 5

GLEANINGS.

AN ARISTOCRATIC Dl\ ORCE CASE, Lord Connemara, formerly known as the Right Hon. R. Bourke, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and now Governor of Madras, India, has entered an appearance at Somerset House to the divorce suit brought by hi 3 wife, Lady Susan Georgiaaa Brown Ramsay, daughter of the famous Marquis of Dalhousie. MR HALL CAINE. Mr Hall Caine has forsaken London as a placb of residence, and has bought a house in the neighbourhood of Keswick, the native heath of this true-born dalesman. Mr Caine is about 38 years of age, is married, and has one child. A NEW ASPECT OF THE EDUCATION QUESTION. Tho provincial Government of Cologne has issued a circular threatening to impose a heavy line and. other penalties on parents who send their children abroad to be educated. HOW SHE WAS DRESSED. ‘The bride wore an appropriate and becoming dress of gray grow-grain silk, and a fißlioo of white Vallentions lace, with long veil of white tool,’ was the description a rural editor gave of tho bride’s appearance at a wedding. The bride herself gave him the description, and he took it down by the sound, and a 3 he was his own compositor it was published just as he wrote it. SINGULAR SOMNAMBULISM. Two extraordinary cases of somnambulism are at the present moment greatly exciting psychologists in Berlin, says the Daily News correspondent. A brother and sister who, till now, were well developed physically and mentally, have suddenly been attacked by somnolency. It began with the eldest of two, a boy of 11 years and a few months ; afterwards his sister was seized. Whilst playing and in school they suddenly fell asleep, also whilst walking, standing, or speaking. If pus to bed they try when they awake to continue the conversation and answer questions which had been asked them. If they are not put to bed, they continue what they were doing when they awake.

Applicant—‘l’m applying for the place, ma’am. What wages do you pay ?’ Lady ‘ Have you references, and are you a good cook ?’ Applicant—* I have good references, but (simpering) maybe I’m not plain enough for you. The gentlemen in my last place told me—told me—’ ‘Lady—‘That will do ; you won’t suit me. You are ‘‘too plain ” for this situation.”

In English there is no •feminine form of king like konigin, the feminine form of konign in German. As the feminine equivalent of king, queen is used, which Professor Max Muller says is ‘ the old word for mother.’ He also cites a translation of the Bible made in the fourth century to prove its meaning at that early date as wife or woman. The queen was, in fact, in a special sense, the ‘woman,’ or the ‘wife,’ the highest of women and the highest of wives in the kingdom.

Essence of peppermint, applied with the finger tips over the seat of pain, gives relief in headache, toothache, or neuralgic pain in any part of the bodj'. Caie must be taken not to put it directly under the eye, on account of the smarting it would cause.

In Japan the dead are always buried with the heads toward the north and feet toward the south. A living Japanese will never sleep in that position. In sleeping-rooms of private houses, and of hotels even, a diagram of the points of the compass is pasted upon the ceiling for the benefit of timid gnests.

Princess Militzi of Montenegro received I,ooo,ooo,roubles as a wedding present from the Czar of Russia. .Immediately after the wedding she bestowed the whole gift, to be divided among needy inhabitants of Montenegro.

The Jbondon Gaslight Company, with a view to preventing labour troubles, has re.

solved to admit 700 of its employes to a share of its profits. They all agree to have nothing to do with the strikes or labour organisations.