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Colonist, Volume XXII, Issue 2514, 22 February 1879, Page 5 (Supplement)

Strange Apology.—David Crocket once visited a menagerie at Washington, aud, pausing a moment before a particularly hideous monkey, exclaimed, "What a resemblance; to the Hon. Mr X!" The words werej scarcely spoken, when he turned, and, to; his astonishment, saw standing at his side: the man whom he had complimented. "Ibeg: your pardon," said the gallant.colonel; "I! would not have made the remark had I: known you were near me, and/I amsready toj make the most humble apology, for.my un-i pardonable rudeness; but"—looking first at the insulted member of Congress, whose face was anything but lovely, andthen at the animal compared to him—" hang it if i can toll whether I ought to apologise to you or to the monkey." . .• . ; A Determined Woman. —Some years ago —not very many;—the Presbyterian Church of Quincy, 111., had so run down that it. was considered dead, and the^ Presbytery sent a committee to disband it.. The com-, mittee arrived at Quincy and enquired for the Church—there was none; for the elders —there were none; for the deacons—there were none; for the male members—there were none ; for the female members—there was but one. They searched her out and told her their business. She fired . up, positively refused to be disbanded, and gave them a piece of her mind, somewhat as follows : "This is a pretty piece of business for Presbytery. lam ashamed of it. You go back and tell Presbytery that I will not be disbanded, and that what it should do is to send a man here to preach and build up the church." They reasoned and expostulated with her, but she was firm, and returned but one answer, " I will not be disbanded." They returned to Presbytery and reported, and Presbytery had the wisdom to seethe hand of the Lord in it, and sent a man to preach. The results were a blessed revival of religion and the reorganization of the church; It isl now a self-supporting church, with a settled pastor, and reports one hundred and thirty-three members."1 ' '.."■, ,","■',"•'-'/* ; Killed by Cold.—-A; Scotch "correspondent state that tinkers suffered severely during the lafte storm in the north of Scotland. A. melancholy case is just reported from Eorgue, Aberdeenshire. A band of these wanderers, consisting of father, mother, and six children, Bought shelter in a cuttle shed on a farm. Disease broke out among them, and five of the children died within a few day a of each other from inflammation of the lungs aocelerated by privation. Only a girl, the eldest of. the' family survived, ! The English marine magistrate at the poTt of Singapore is a judicial person of muscle. He lately sprank from his bench and soundly thrashed a sub-magiitrate sitting wich him ; the next day hek dragged a reporter out of Court by the collar ; and hi 3 only virtue, apparently, is the impartiality with which he abuses every shipmaster who comes before him. . ' „.. Perfection.— Hn. S. A. Allen's Wobld's Haib Restobeb (the genuine only in Pink Wrapper) never fails to restore Grey Hair to its youthful color; imparting to it new life, growth, and lustrous beauty. Its action is certain and thorough, quickly banishing, Greyness. It it not & dye. It ever proreß itself the natural strengthener of the Hair. Its superiority and excellence are established throught the world. Wholesale of Kempthobne. Phossbb, & Co,\ Dunedin and Aiioftand, and Fbnton, Grxmw.A»b»& Co., Wellington, and retail of al( Charawta and Perfumers) throughout tkft Qolaniw,— Aiht, ■

The Sydney r -Mat7-:containß the following highly 'firorable reference to the hot springs L qf •New^Zea\and,^ <rT-be mineral springs in New Zealand;}are,undoubtedly among the moat foremost wonders of the world, and -their 'cdratiye /properties have been testified .td'by a 1 KdM 1 of persona who have benefited ■by'tteibi"'"^^'1 V'- 1. ■ ' ' -■-.Till Jsi-u'- I i' » <1- fu> j'J. ~ . I( ,!.T.HKi!;T»UXH.hToLD^-TJohn., Bright, the •Quaker'Mi Pj for Kochdale, was applied to by a Presbyterian minister in Scotland for some sublcrfptiqii or,advice what to do with the 2' virtuous apfferiug-, poor." .1 give you a few sentences from the Quaker philosopher^ reply f—~ii W e e may expecc that the population (divoYced-^from the soil will be in .te9f^s?^[..®?]7.i!f_J?: PJ^canp^ incqme;or living, and "ill be subject to reverses which ,will c inflfct upotf many of them the sufferings of poverty, reven'wben their lives have been f»My._prjudenJ_an^irJu_ouß,..Enormous evil to the people comes.-from this cause. The great wihiek^ question Ida ipne^ which your friends may consider with some advantage. If all- the ministers of the Scotch churches were, to cbanish whisky from their bouses and, their social .meetings, they would do much to discredit and to withdraw one fertile source or poverty in Scotland." : dußioirs-CAsiß.—Thef Pall Mall Gazette of December 7th says :— •• The judge of the [Brighton County Caurt-was yesterday called upon to decide uponithe right of a mistress to require the attendance of her servant at family prayers.; A young woman named Kidley, a cook, claimed a month's wages, in lieu of proper notice of dismissal. It was admitted that she Had neither neglected her Workj nor behaved imprdperly, but was dismissed for refusing tojoin in the family prayers, which held every day. Mr Martineau, the Judge, said that unless there Ivaa "an^tipreSLstipjilation with the plaint iff before her engagement as a servant that she was to include attendance at family prayers in her duties, she was'ieg'ally' justified in refusing to join ....them. She went to hep situationto;cook, not to pray; and in the absence of any stipulation on her part to joinin the prayers, she was free to stay away. He gave a verdict in her; favor, with costs." " " Godless?'-r-With reference to a" word which has been heard to a considerable extent; in JVeiv-Zealand of late, the Brussels correspondent ©f the Pall Mall Gazette (December 7th) writes : —"The epithet • godless, 1 whiuii was once so perseveringly applied by the Irish Ultramontanes to [the Queen's Colleges in Ireland, is making its fortune, to use the French Expression,; just now among the Belgian clericals, gWe had already the '"godless,.' TJnivprsity of Brussels, because natural flciejice, mathematics &c, are taught there without,special reference to the Deity. We have now the * godless ' primary schools, because it is intended to limit the influence of the priest,to, his proper sphere, and no longer to allow v hiin to act as the schoolmaster's master* .And, in the last place, we have the 'godless 'Parliament; because in the recently uvoted address there was nothing said?of' the: Almighty■ the- majority haying been mindful^of^the commandment which forbids us to take^the name of G-od in vain. The wordr./ godless 'j has/ evidently a great future before it in Belgium." SiKrar.L^B.BECT.i—Penitehtes is the name of a singular sect or order existing in great numbers in New Mexico. The self-inflicted tortures, which, they undergo during the season of Lent are almost incredible. With, no clothing ■ but a pair of drawers rolled above the knee, they carry heavy crosses until'they sink under them from exhaustion. As they walk they lash themselves over the shoulders and,back with a scourge made of the Spanish ,bayonet plant, or soap weed which is full of prickly points, sharp as needles, until the blood runs down to their feet.' An acquaintance informed me that he had seen a man walking with a cross on each 'shoulder weighing 100 pounds each, and a • heavy log chain fastened to each foot, while another, with one of these whips platted to order, Bcourged him over the back and shoulders for one hour, and this repeated several times during the day. Bear in mind that these-men live in the United States ; they are voters, and a part of the acquisition of the war with Mexico. Too Much Appetite.—" And did you ever see the likes of it ?" she called out as she ran around the corner after a policeman. ".What'B the trouble now?" he asked. " Why, first the house caught fire; then our William broke his leg; then our boy Thomas got in gaii, and then my husband began to fail in health." " Anything more —is he dead?" "Not dead, sir, but he might as well be. The doctor was around yesterday, and gave him something to brighten his appetite, and he is this minute smashing the cook-stove, because he's as hungry as a bear, and we haven't even a I cold potato in the house! I'd like to have the doctor arrested, sir."— Detroit Free Press, Loehe not Behaving.—There was commotion in the polite circles of Montreal after the grand ball at the Windsor. The gossips were shocked to learn that the Marquis had not danced with the right people. There was the Lady This, who had arrayed herself at ruinous expense in order to ilance with him, and who was not so much as introduced to him; and then there was Lady That's daughter, with all her own, and all her'1 mother's, and all her first cousin's diamonds in the upper sections of her toilet, who had to waltz with the young men of Montreal;1 Meanwhile, the Marquis was dancing' with ladies who were pretty and nice enough, to be sure, but who did not,grace, the first walks of society, don'fe you know? .When the supper room wa* opened^ matters went from bad to worse.. The Marquis* wtio had been doing his best to j,make himself agreeable to everybody* during,tbeievening, took downstairs.a very aci-omplished lady, to be sure* but one whom Ea'dy -This and JUady That'B daughterconsidered " •lightly m-beneath themselves,. iniiHinuoh,1-as r shel ■is-'a -brewer's wife, or dmv'hteVj or something of that sort. ') i^E sum of £1200"waVtaken'as gate money at tha ~AiV!*ruiisri "t,x GrentteineH match" oa' the™Eagt Mel-bom-Dri ground oq tb« 2nd January and succeeding