DOINGS AND SAYINGS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6493, 13 April 1908, Page 2

DOINGS AND SAYINGS.

It has been imported to tho Barrow-in-Furness Guardians that an inmate? named Moore, an Orangeman, who died recently, had been buried by a Rom on Catholic pricot in error. Tho clergyman who O'&ciatcd enid it was a moot serious blunder, and h© was shocked to find that ho had buried an Or«n-grman.

An ERglinh paper say©;—"Tho annual rate of mortality in the seventy-six great towns of Kurland and Wales last week averaged 15.6 per 10C0. Belfast, which was tho highest in tho list, had a rate* of 38.° When was Belfast removed to Bagland a»d Wales? After masquerading for seven 3 ears in boy's clothing, "Jimmy Allen," twenty years old, porter on tho Louisville and Kentucky River Packet Company’s steamer Falls City, was arrested at Louisville. Kentucky, and found to bo a girl.

Tho Anarchaats of Italy have decided to start a drily paper, in which their views wiTl be freely expounded. Enrico Ma.la.tc*ta will bo tho editor. Knew what ho was about. —A young man in Vienna, who discovered that hia fiancee was in tho habit of spending nearly .£S9O a year on drees, broke off tho engagement, and recently he married tho dressmaker.

It is mentioned that powerful alcoholic beverages can bo obtained from bananas, cocoannt, rice, peas, peaches, and plume. It id very difficult to be completely virtuous, ism't it?

A Manchester rroman named Downing, when charged at Eochdale with drunkenness. mad© the newel excuse that she had had a hot bath and it had upset her. She had .£SO in her possession when arrested. Mohamed Ben Mohamed wag married the other day at the Birmingham registry office to an English girl. The ceremony was graced by the presence of

thirty Arabs drccvscd in flooring white garments. Tho Arabs are in the circus business, and tlw bridegroom ie the leader of tho troupe. The Chinese Minister at Washington, treated a lady to a smart retort recently. ‘'Why do tire Chinese attach ro much importance to the dragon?'" she asked; "you have never soon ono nave yon ?” To which the wily Chinaman replied, "Why dd you attach so much importance to tho goddess of liberty on your coin©? You have never seen the lady, have you ?" Tho Nu Spclin Leag of lias just added 75 more wurde to the longwage, "Tisis** and "tang” are two of the worst. It wood giv us a sik feelin about the diafrnm to eat an eg spelt with wun "g." Wo get a namness thru all our limo at the site of eaich foren words as "agost” and ‘‘gord,” "lam" and "mdotted." There are about sixty more; but those are more than enuf for wtm paragraf. The small holdings in France have boon hold up as a blessed example by land reformers, but there is one man who is not fond of his share. He has had to pay 18s 6d a year for a piece of land which ho does not possess. He has protested again and again, but the authorities invite him to prove that he does not own tho land. He prefers to

pay cash rates rather than, go to law to prove that he has no land. If the latest forecast of the Home Government’s Old-A ge Pension Scheme is anything like the real article it will take a double million magnifying glass to discover any difference other than the name from the old-fashioned parochial refrom the old-fashioned parochial relief of the outdoor kind. The Motherland soems in no hurry to emulate Now Zealand,

Cabled that the Prefect of the Seine, whoever he is, has submitted to the Paris Municipality a scheme for the beautification.—not the purification—of Paris, which is to cost ,£24,0c0,000. iTwo millions of the money will bo devoted to an effort to stamp out tuberculosis. Tho Frenchman takes a groat pride in his capital city, but it’s not for the beauty of its virtue.

Tho Highlander is always known for Kia prido. and in the following paragraph (taken from tho "Glasgow Herald”) this characteristic is well exemplified.—When working on a scaffold on

a Glasgow building recently a hardy member from tho North had tho misfortune to lose his footing, and after performing a few unexpoctr-d gymnastic feats was deposited on the ground m an apparently Lifeless condition; but the blood of his ancestors—and incxdently Ms own —was boiling at his unwonted and undignified display, and in a very manly fashion he picked himself up. once more ascended to his post, merely remarking as ho passed the amazed spectators of the accident, "A Cameron never can yield."

Tho Chicago Pullman Car Company bos distributed J 355,000 among its conductors and porters who have been reported on as showing proper courtesy to the company’s customers during the past yoar. A sum equivalent to a month's pay has been sent to each mm. In tho illustrated handbook to tho House of Commons, issued by tho "Pall Mall" Press, it is pointed out that the Romford Division of Essex, whose 49.CG5 voters return only on© member of Parliament, contains as many electors as tho counties of Kerry, Kilkenny, King’s and Carlow, winch return ten members! At the last General Election, the two candidates for tb© Romford Division spent between them J? 5703, of which the successful one. Sir J. H. Bethel I (Liberal), spent £3 34o—surely the most costly member of the present British Parliament to elect! Mr E. W. Hornung, author of the new Australasian drama "Stingaree the Bushranger,*’ gained his experience ot Australian life and character on a squatter’s station in New Smith Wales in the eighties. Ho scored his first success with "A bride from the Bush," and ever since its publication he has been an industroed story-teller. Hr Hornung is married to a sister of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He is a cricketer, cylist, and motorist. President Roosevelt state® that tho American Fleet is to return home immediately after visiting Awstralia. The object of the cruise, he says, is to Hhow the Americans that tho fleet is a great and important factor in maintaining its policy, ami to demonstrate to the world in, general what they can. expect to run against if they fall out with tho noble Yankee. Groat is the esK-glorification of the American.

Tho eruffragettes are still going it with unabated vigour. At a meeting held to welcome sums of those just released fr'un prison Mrs PankhuTwt, who presided, stated that tho self-denial week had rsultod in an increase of the funds by over ,£2,r>Do, and th© collect! cm at the meetings totalled a like amount. Tho lady urged them to redouble their efforts to Wruro enfranchisement. If they are going to improve on post performance®, tho Lord help tho Old Dart. A cablegram states that a member * f the German Reichstag during a speech referred to "the negro's immortal fcu!,*’ upon which derisive laughter came from tho presw gallery. A deputy.then alluded to the reporters as “prigginh louts." which caused most of them to withdraw. refming to return until they were offered adequate satisfaction. They must bn singularly thin-ekined reoortero. and also must be endowed with a peculiar aense • of humour if they pec anything funny in a negro having 'a soul.