PEOPLE-WE READ ABOUT.

New Zealand Mail, 21 February 1901, Page 62

PEOPLE-WE READ ABOUT.

.Red tape sometimes breeds “bulls.” Tbie .type writer, at an Irish bank lately wired to heart Quarters, according, to regulations: “Regret inform you that I died this morning, of pneumonia. Signed for John Brown, manager, Thomas 'Smith.’'* > . -* * ** * There is a small hamlet called Sarre in the Isle of Thanet, the squire of which .was formerly a. Mr John Holman. TJpon the altar cloth in the church was the monogram I.H.S. An aged inhabitant wa.s asked if he knew the meaning of these letters. “Why, in course, I does,” he replied, hit is Holman, Squire/ .What else can it be ?” * * . -s* * ‘ y * Leo XIII. does not speak English, though he began to learn it morg than half- a century ago, when he was Nupcio in- Brussels, and made the acquaintance of a member of the Weld family. “Seat •down!” is one of the few English phrases which he addresses now to English visitors to the Vatican. “Punch'’ is almost the English paper to which Eeo. XIII subscribes. *** • * * Something for . D.rs Rentoul . and Strong to ponder over. “If the wives a-nd sisters and children of the farmers now imprisoned in Ceylon, or at Simons Town, or at Green Point, are suffering privations; if farms are lying untilled,' with the certain promise of a desolating famine; if homesteads are burned dovyn and the occupants turned out on the: veldt, the chief blame rests with thpge ; men and women —engaged, many of Them, in religious work- —who preach to the ignorant Boer'that if he holds out long enough, the abused independence of the two republics will be restored/’ ' * 0. * ' * The stall living Duke of Rutland, now in* his 83rd year, is remembered oniy as'‘ ! Lord John Manners and as the author of The oft and maliciously quoted coup lfcfcf’ which we need not quote all oyer Bad verse has always the privilege of being forgotten. Why should it be immortally remembered only in the cash of a man who happened to be also a very -upright'member of Parliament, an a pioneer. in,.factory; act reform, and, an advocate of;' national holidays before St. Lubbock was born? it 0 , s 0 *» .... *. • A hqmei thle 'member of Pai’liaptent, addressing the Irish. .constituents, told them a story which lie knew to be the grossest exaggeration* - As lie wa.s an educated, gentleman*,-, a. friencl tb.on.gnt it ;•unworthy of him,- and told him so. “AhV my dear fellow,” was the airy explanation, “you English will never understand xus Irish at all. My constituents are very clever fellows, and they discount all I say to • them by 50 per cent. If I want them-to grasp the truth I’ve "ot to tell them the story at least twice as big as it is.” And it is mucn the -same with the Dutch or -at leas., it, is to be hoped r so, considering the lieS ! “gross as a mountain, open, palpable,” with which they are habitually fed up. # • * ' * v General-Sir. George Digby-Barker, who ‘ came away from Bermuda some mouths ago, but nominally retains the Governorship, of that colony, so that Lord Roberts may be able to nominate one of his deserving generals for the post presently, will now soon be relieved, of it, according, to rumour. It said that the post is to be given to Sn ■Charles Warren. The salary is not

large, but the climate is . one of the ; -imt in the world, and since Hamilton ]Ms become a fasionable resort of our jthierican cousins, the little colony has : Jlpwn into a very pleasant place of resi--ipnce for one in the position of Governor and commander-in-chief. ■ tjf. it it it The ''Duke of Beaufort has decided to sell his Monmouthshire seat, the celebrated Troy House, together with tne ruins- of Monmouth Castle, which lias come down to him from John of Gaunt. This pic-turesqque ruin is all that remains of a favourite residence or "Old John of Gaunt, time honoured Lancaster, ’’ and stands, it is believed, the site of ail ancient British fortress. Troy House contains a cradle in which Henry of Monmouth was rocked, as well as the suit, of armour worn by him at- Agincourt. The property came into possession of Henry, first Duke of Beaufort, towards the close of the seventeenth century, for the family is descended from John of Gaunt and Catherine Swvnford. "** * * Referring to the account of the Jew who protested against accepting a faced Queen, though aware, that it gave him “four of a kind.” a correspondent points out that one of the most debated of the divergent rules of the now popular game ‘of poker is whether a card must take, or cannot have, a card faced in tne draw. Not long ago a considerable bet on this point was placed in the hands of an obliging stakeholder, who duly handed the money to the winner on decision rendered. The loser, angry at having been ruled against, sued the stakeholder under a New 1 ork antigambling statute, and won. The stakeholder was thus rewarded for his kindness in handling two other peoples money by the loss of a considerable sum • —and no one is the wiser about the disposition of the faced card.

Being in doubt whether _ to rise the word “colonial*’ or “colonist ’ in describing the Australian visintcr, a "Daily Chronicle” representative a wellknown squatter from New South Walls for advice in the matter. "Well,” said the old gentleman, “I dislike being called a •colonial/ I am a •colonist.' But my ' boys and girls, who were all born out there, glory in calling themselves 'colonials/ The word lias crept in with the - increase of the native' or colcniallyborn population, and the word ‘colonist’ will" disappear when we old-stagers hand over the- reins to those that come after us. However,” continued the old gentleman, with a twinkle in his eye, “after Ist January next be careful about using the word ‘colonial’ at all, or you will have some of the young men the new nation jumping on you. Call them Australians and you are all right. 5

An amusing story is told of a. worthy P.M.O. to Avliom Baclen-PoAvell applied for volunteers among his nurses for the nursing staff of the Transvaal Police. After some days the medico arrived at head quarters. “Look here,” he said, “a lot of my young women would like to join, but they want, first of. all, to know - wdiat the kit i.s to be like.” B.P. rapidly created a picturesque' study of a pretty girl, made still more pretty by a khakee blouse and a B.P. hat, with a green puggaree and a jay’s wing. The nurses were delighted, and the P.M.O. returned the next day. "You can take your pick,” he said : "they are all crazy to join.”

It is just as easy to drift into ephger as to drive into it.. The progress is slower, but the end is equally sure. It is the gradual progress of drifting which blinds the danger. Men and!; women drift into ill-health in such a. way. There is a little feeling of oppressionjafter eating. After a time it passes away. Some day it returns, and brings another symptom —headache, perhaps. Something is done to relieve the headache, but nothing to reljfsve the cause- A So one more victim, goe^fdrifting on tj? 'the rocks of disease, and; if not checked, grows. The organs of J- digestion and nutrition are totally deranged, and the one .so affected becomes A victim t# disease of the stomach. ;There is a medicine that cures, and that : ope medichjfe is Dr Morse’s Indian ifßotgPi'lls; and when other socalled remedies fail,#.tkey have cured thousands, affd will|pure you,. Mrs S. Gardiner, of'7o Green street-,-Richmond, Victoria, writes: —/‘For many years I have' ' suffered f.from biliousness, sic-k headache, morning nausea, and fori which complaints I have tried |F many patent remedies, but all tojpo pm’pose. About nine months ago I Dr ..Morse’s Indian Root Pills ady|rtisec3V and doubtfully gave them a tSfal. 'After the first few doses the nausea fled',' and the headaches disappeared: Rafter Staking one bottle and a- half I*:felt quite well again. I may also staff© ...that my. son, aged eighteen, who has suffered since childhood from urinai'i troubles, lia| been taking the Pills, anil he has derived more benefit from their use than from any other remedy heAhas tried. He was operated upon at one of our-.p,ubl.io..hospitals, but left it asfbacl as entered. He intends do persevere with Dr Morse’s Indian Root pills, and if they do not cure him permanently nothing else will.” Dr Morse’s Indian Root- Pills are a perfect blood purifier, and a positive cure for bilmusness, indigestion, constipation, headaphes, sallow complexion, liver and kidney troubles, piles, pimples, boils and blotches, and for female ailments. Sold by Chemists and' storekeepers, Is lid nerlbottle, or six bottles 6s 6d. Sole proprietors, the W. H. Comstock Co., Ltc?., (Australasian Depot) 58 Pitt street, Svflney. Packed in amber bottles, and thf full name blown thereon.