VARIETIES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3486, 7 June 1884, Page 3

VARIETIES.

An intense intellectual movement is said to be making itself felt through the whole of Iceland. It is headed by a still youthful teacher, Torvald Thoroddson, of Mordrnvellir. A second ininstructor is travelling over the island, delivering lectures on religion, piety, general culture, &c., and is establishing schools for adults throughout the land. At a church in South London recently the morning and evening sermons were preached by different clergymen. Both preachers took the same text, and the amused and amazed congregation recognised a great similarity between the two discourses. Inquiries were made, and it was found that the morning preacher had recited a sermon of Dr Maclaren’s word for word, and that the evening sermon was the same in text, divisions, and illustrations.

The “ North Otago Times” has the following:—A vara avis in the shape of a pure white lark has been frequently noticed lately at Cave Valley. Thsbird has never been heard to sing, but notwithstanding this would be a treasure to the bird fancier, as it is seldom that such freaks of nature make themselves observable amongst this particular species. It rather disgusted a Vermont man who went to a neighbor’s farm to steal a cow to find when he got tho animal homo that it was his own cow, which his neighbor had stolen earlier in the night. He says tho neighbor is a confounded thief.

Someone has defined Love—“A little sighing, a little crying, a little dying, and a deal of lying.