THE WATCHMAN.

Saturday Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 112, 1 September 1877, Page 5

THE WATCHMAN.

“ For some must watch, while some must sleep, , Thus runs the world away.” . ; —Samlet. New Ttjkkish Genekaxs. —It appears that an attack is being meditated on the Russians in great force by General Fever, General Ague, and General Famine.

Stilx Achieving, Still Pursuing.— Alexander Wylie has not been wily enough to keep his doings with the sma’ still secret, and has had a cooler in the Police Court, where he has been fined.

The Dbought. —There has been a longcontinued drought in Australia. We have had a touch of it in this Colony, especially in the Assembly, where the proceedings have been of the driest character. The atmosphere is cloudy, however, betokening a coming storm.

• Kind Enquiries. —When the Russian battalions defiled before the Grand Duke Nicolas on their own side of the Danube, they shouted in answer to his question, “How’s your health, boys 1” “We’re firstrate, good father.” They had not then had. a taste of the Balkans and the Chipka Pass. What is a Churchman ?—When Buckingham said to Gloster, “ Get a prayer-book and stand between two churchmen,” he did not mean two members of the Churchmen’s Club, hut “ two Right Reverend Fathers,” “two deep divines.” Our Church of Eng* land young men were not rightly reverent, to their Bishop, and their talk witnessed to shallowness.

The Correct Card. —-The young men of the Church of'England in Dunedin, with their Bishop at their head, have had a fresh discussion about their name as a society, and they finally agreed upon “ The Churchmen’s Club. ” The whole affair is so deucedly funny that this newest guild may be appositely termed the deuce of clubs.

A - Legislative Councillor. —The Hon. R. Campbell interjected at a meeting, when the goldfields members interviewed the Premier, “Every loafer in the country had used the commonages.” Do not be crusty, Mr Campbell, and tell us if you include the sugar-loafer in yo ur designation 1 Why should not the common loafer enjoy his commonages 1 He has paid more to the revenue hitherto than some of his sugared brethren. Extensive Reading. —A speaker at the “ Churchmen’s Club” on Friday last designated the immortal Will as “ some poet.” He evidently had never heard of the “ dear saint,” sweet Juliet, or her loving murmurings—

“ O Romeo, Romeo ! Wherefore art thou Romeo ?” “ What’s in a name ? That which we call a rose,

By any other name, would smell as sweet.”

As good as Gold. —We are glad to notice that ex-Councillor Isaac is to have his zealous, services in the maintenance of the health of the city acknowledged by the presentation of a purse containing 50 yellow-boys. This will be a sovereign consolation to him in his disappointment at the result of last election.

The Czar’s New Title. —ln the Crimea the Russians were lively at earth-work. Since then the spade has become a recognised military weapon. The Russians have tried to get a dig at the Turks, and have proved their prowess as invaders by securing themselves within an intrenched camp. Spades are still trump, and the Czar may be titled with propriety the Knave of Spades. The Turks were within an ace of storming the camp at Chipka.

The Press, the Pulpit, and the Bar.— The Adelaide correspondent of the Melbourne Argus writes : —“ The freedom-to-the-press luncheon, which was suggested by the victory of the Advertiser newspaper over Messrs Cullen and Wigley, the lawyers, was a successful demonstration. It was largely attended, and was enthusiastic in its spirit. Mr Jefferson Stow, the writer of the article that formed the basis of the action, made the speech of the day, and excited roars of laughter by reviving with most delicate satire the old Suffolk toast, “May every parson kill a lawyer and be hanged for it”—a suggestive expedient for ridding the community of two —to the Suffolkian mind—dangerous classes. Mr Stow also riiade seme sound remarks in defence of the anonymity of the press.

A Happy Thought. —A correspondent, in writing to the Melbourne Age ©n the subject of “ Women as Bank Clerks,” says:—“lf the bank managers would see a little ahead of them, they could very easily put a stop to embezzlements by adopting the system so much in vogue in Germany, particularly in Munich, and also carried on to a very great extent in New York, and that is, employ educated women. They are quick at mental arithmetic, and breaches of trust are unknown amongst educated women. The Victorian gaol records will prove this, for I don’t think the records could show the names of six educated women there for breaches of trust ; hut if women do the same work with greater safety.to the funds of their employers, they should have the same pay as the men they supersede.”