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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9668, 10 April 1893, Page 2

Members of the New Plymouth Orchestral Society are requested to meet at the Bandroom on Wednesday evening at halfpist seven. -Advt. The first practice of Prof. Keesing's Juvenile Class will be held in Gymnasium on Tuesday afternoon, 11th inst, from 3.30 to 4.30. All intending pupils aro requested to attend ; feo, 6s per quarter in advance. — Advt. A curious fraud has boon perpetrated in Vienna, whore the Archduchess Stephanie gave a hundred louis for a parrot which could repeat tha Lord's Prayer in six lan guages. When the bird was taken to the palaco he proved to be absolutely mute. The vendor was proceeded against, and confess d that ho himself was a ventriloquist, and had said the prayers himself, having taught tho bird to open his beak while he did so. Of courso tho parrot and tho money changed hands again. " We shall want three British Parlia- , monts and six Constitutions to work it," was the comment of a dissatisfied Ministerialist ot the complex character of tho now Homo Rule Bill. Tin Te'egraph in sists that the majority of Liberals received it lukewarmly, but the Daily A T cics and Ckroicle are equally certain that the Government benches "were enthusiastic. " A Scion of Queen-dand " defends tho colonial youth from the asporsions of some recent correspondents. He considerably sums up hia view of the Australian young man's chief characteristics in a few lines at the close of his letter. He' says :—: — "The Auslral'an young man may in some cases bo eccentric in dress ; he rebels against rules ; he looks back on his school days with pleasure, and recounts with great gusto his punishments, fights aud escapades ; ho is radical in politics, indifferent in religion, keen and zealous as a sportsman^ bright, merry an 1 jolly in company, in nature gooJ temporeJ but strong willed, not too eager in hU resoaich after knowledge, and finally he holds his girl compatriots in such high esteem, whatever then faults, that ho marries them. To them, our boys and girl.-", then, must we look to the shaping and fashioning of the destinies of Australia, bo their characters i good or bad." Sir Robert Ball, the eminent a9tronomer, teil3 an amusing anecdote illustrating Moore's words, % Tho sunflower turns to her god when he s; ts The same look that sho turnod when he ■ rose. An explorer, he said, intent on proving the truth or othoriviso of this theory, look out a sunflower seed to the Arctic regions and planted it there. In the courso of time the plant came up and fl "nvcred vigorously just, however, nt t; c season when the sun never sets in tho Arctic circle So the poor sunflower, true to itP nature, followed the progress of tho sim, expecting it to disappear ut tight in the ordinary co'irse. But as tho sun dif not sot at ull, the flower strained itself round and round until it twisted its own neck off.

A couple of business men meeting on tha Melbourno Exchango, tho following colloquy took place beUeon them : — First Business Man (flippantly): "IIuIIo, old m;in ! How'b business T Second Business man (solemnly) : •' Hush : spoak reverontly of the dead !"

An American paper grave'y informs its readers that ''on tho score of frugality and simplicity the tablo of the Duko oE Argyll is second touono, and there is a story current of a meal at His Grace's house whon six huge powdored footmen and two butlors assisted at the serving of a dish of tripe ! " This would bo hard to beat.

Value unsurpassed in clocks and watches. Thoroughly good American 8 Day Striking Clocks ; regulated and guarameed, 21s ; nickol clock, 5s ; alarms, 7s Od each . The Bushman's Ist Class Keyless Watch, 21s ; at J. II Paukek's, under the Gold Spectacles, pevoo-street, New Plymouth. — Advt.