OF COURSE, SIR!

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4548, 25 May 1889, Page 4

OF COURSE, SIR !

The Waterbury will keep Greenwich, Auckland, Mean, Sidereal, or any other species of time! except bad timo. In this respect its noral.4 are incorruptible. The old and threadbare story of George Washington (deceased) and tlie apple tree has long since erased to bm-'ums :i »ynonyin for truth and unswerving accuracy. Now, if a food and respectable fv.h'-» wants to "ire his son a lecture, he simply «js = -" Tell the truth like the Waterbury, Johnny, and then nobody will ever flo>i >t. you." Ibis piece of advice, with a Wit<-rbury thrown m, costs you thirteen-and-sixpence. " See it? A orioiu incident, says the Sund-vy Times oc-iirreii to the Queen at the drawing room. It i.ppeui-s that when Lord 3ilisbury came furwir'l to make hi* bow, her Majesty nii.fioned him on one side for the purpose of addressing » few words to him. When tho Q.m n turned round to speak to him, however, an vlenly, to the horror of all those standing around. Her Majesty's cap, tiara, and veil w.to torn off her head, and there the Queen stood before a full Court crowned only with th; n.itural adornment of her hair. Tho exp!i- ution, however, is extremely simple. Her iliijesiy's veil had got entangled m the jet trinmings of the mistress of tho robes' dress, ami when this lady had executed a slight rear movement to meet the Queen's altered position she naturally dragged the veil off witb her. The Princess of Wales anil the other p.-; ;i-e-nes present quickly surrounded Her A! ij.'-f.y ami attempted to repair the damage, but .•■) great was tho Queen's mirth and their t>H<\ tint it waa several minutes before this cwl.l ba successfully done. In an interesting despatch, Dr Macgregor, of "-'ew Guinea, gives some curious partiuu-l l«r< <>i f.lio ;irresfc of n native named Bokano, (RruHi'i of murder. Ho says :— " The scene fiat followed the arrest of Bokano was very i/;j.n-3sive, and illuatrated m a very striking m.niiier Ibn deeply affectionate feelings theee pi'iip -. entertain for eacb other. As ho was l'i-'l through the village, men, women and cliiWri-n joined on to the procession, forcing tiieni«elves forward to embrice tho prisoner an.-| t.j i;mbrace him ; and once 9'>tno persons hen ■ n to cry, and then crying becume general, atiTl r was obliged to interpose lo kop bock t!i" c>n«»nlly accumulating crowd to leave a p*.i«:-'l<: tor tho prisoner. When ho was taken tiwuv from tho beooh m the boat several hundred pcop!" 1 weru crying 3nd lamenting along tho si rand, mid many of tho women waded int.'< the sen, wailing plaintively, and boating tho water and thuir breasti as manifi:»titiom of griof. A groat number of them riMiiuined on m projecting sandspit, gnzinii steailily out to sea as long as the vessel wiis m »ii»ht I uliould inor.tion that Bokanu'i frii-'.cM offered mo m his riniom sumo nutlvu prop.-rtv and liokano's wife." A.i extrjordinary story it reported /rmi the lake of Cnrno. A well-dressed cl.lerly "ontleman took n. passage at Como on one of the steamer* for Coliuo. During thu voyr.uu ho presented to ono of the waiters a n-'itlv folded while papor packet, which contnincil m>nif diamonds, telling tin- man it »»■< •' fi li:)." The recipient, on reaching tho shorn, threw his present away, believing tlm <li .mnndi wro only fragments of gl.su. The «1.r..-L'O passenger boforo landing made several /iiiiil.ir present* t/> nt-her persons. This bnrttm'wf! known, hi: whs rjuenti'innd nt Colic" hy ''m pDlii.M, nnil sUtcd that his ni»mn wa» jj p p,,M F nndaiier, nud 'hut he, win a diamond in«r'-!iin,t. " I livf,"flaid he. " upon diamond*, and I im- with diiimomN." Vlierrnpoii ho proi'fe.M'fo KWfillow nt'orai of l.hfne g«mi whirl) lie hail m his posiension. Tho poiici: i-inmuni.-ate'l with tho Oi.rman consul, at *•■.■ « ri-qui'st, nerr Landuucr wy rel«-gatr,l I, .: I ujt-il i'- asylum until the arrival of hi* (; ...Ik. He hwl upon his poreon 102 bnili.nl.., valil.'.l 'it. 80.000 fninf. <h\ lw.rr.itjg tli-il. tho waiter hail thrown nway hi« diainonda, the peoplo of the plnc« instituted an immediate search for tho trcudurcs.

The Commander of the French Nationa Military School at St.Cyr has Usuod an order forbidding cardplaying. He defends the order by asserting that playing for money was so common m the school that young men of no fortune mortgaged their pay for five, six, and even ten years after leaving the college to pay gambling debts. Tho following taken from the Vallejo Times (U.S.) will afford food for reflection to the lovers of the supernatural : — Some days before the late disaster at the wife of nn officer at More Island awoke from her first sleep, trombling and m tears, and related to her husband a fearful dream she had experienced. She thought she had been m her dream transported to the island of Samoa, and from tho shore of tho harbor of Apia looked upon the American and Gorman fleets. Suddenly a storm arose and the harbor was swept by a fierce tornado Ship after ship went ashore, and the spectators united m offering up prayers for the preservation of the remaining vessels. Lastly the Vandalia and Trenton dragged their anchors, and, as the former vescel was dashed upon the reef and almost immediately sank, Mrs witnessed the death of Capt Lieut Sutton, and Paymaster Arines, the three officers who were the victims of the actual disaster of March Ifith. The picture was so vivid and real that Ylra f or daya was nervous and agitated, thinking only of her dream, and relating it to others, always asserting that the vessels and friends so recently gone from Mare Island must certainly bo exposed to some fearful peril. Chronic Coughs, Colda, Bronchitis, snd pulmonary troubles can be cured by Scott's Kmr.lsioa of pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphite*. We have absolute proof of this from all seotions of the world. It is as palatable as milk. Try it before it is too late. " Gentlemen, — I think it only fair to you to say that my wife had been laid up a month with a very sharp attack of bronohitis, coupled with a very distressing cough through pulmonary affection of the lungs, and the cough had become so troublesome that she was scarcely able to obtain two hours' rest n succession. I obtained a bottle of Scott's Emulsion, which gave her immediate relief, and six bottles have restored her to her usual state of health. I am, gentlemen, yours truly Gbo. Faulsskb, timekeeper, Hallamsbire Works, Sheffield." Jjarge and small sizes sold by all chemists. 4s 6d and 2s 6d.— [Adtt.]