HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17756, 28 January 1926, Page 6

HERE AND THERE.

AN EYE FOR EVERYTHING. HORSE MURDERS A BABY. ’ A four-months-old child of Mr and Mrs Byrne, of Ewingsdale (New South Wales), was in a perambulator on the verandah of their residence, when a horse picked up the child by the arm and carried it some distance, striking it on the ground. The child died shortly after it had been recovered. THE LAST STRAW. Glasgow recently suffered Arctic conditions, after a record fog. Then a man was seen in the streets in a straw hat. Criticism of the hat by frozen Glaswegians took the form of jeers, there was a scuffle, one man was wounded, and a lad said to have, been among the critics was sent to gaol. 25 m ROSES IN VERSE. Flutter upon me rose-leaves. They cool me after my sleep. And with sandal odours fan me Till into my veins they creep. Reach down the lute, and play me A melancholy tune, To rhyme with the dream that has vanished And the slumbering afternoon. —W. W. Story. Strew on her roses, roses. And never a spray of yew! \ In quiet she reposes: Ah, would that I did too. —Matthew Arnold Matthew Arnold also writes: \ Like a rose thy thoughts are folded, They shall wake refreshed with dew. These are leaves of my rose, Pink petals I treasure; There is more than one knows In these leaves of my rose. O the joys! O the woes! They are quite beyond measure: These are the leaves of my rose, Pink petals I treasure. —Austin Dobson. « « DELAYED LETTER. A poignant story lies behind the suicide in the Latin Quarter of Paris of Richard Bret Harte, thirty-six, grandson of the famous American author. Found in his studio dead from gas poisoning, Harte’s last act before turning on the gas jets to end his life had been to write a letter to an English girl with whom he was deeply in love. The following day, while he was lying dead, an express letter from this girl arrived for him making an appointment. It had been arranged that unless Harte received a letter giving him an appointment, the two were never to meet again. When the letter did not arrive he presumablj’ regarded his romance as at an end, and his disappointment made him take his life. M 3 M A STORY OF CHERUBINI. Cherubini was probably as great a teacher as he was a composer, and he exercised tremendous influence on the ’ r ounger composers of his own dav. He was, however feared as much as he was respected. One day one of his pupils took him a work he said he had discovered, and which he considered wasby Mehul. Casting only a hasty glance over it, Cherubini said: “No; you are quite mistaken. This is not by Mehul. It is too badly written.” Blushing furiously, the pupil confessed that he had himself written it. Quite cool and calm came Cherubini’s answer: “No; it is not by you. It is too good for that! ” He despised hypocrisy and conceit as much as he hated bad work. HENRY *VHL’S KITCHEN. In Henry YIII.’s kitchen at Hampton Court the State banquets and magnificent feasts in which “King Hal” delighted were prepared. The kitchen leads out of the serving place, an open hall where the servants of the palace waited for the courses to be handed out to them by the cooks through hatches in the walls, and from which they were brought by them to the great hall in which dinners and suppers were served. For the big feasts kitchens were used—one apparently for roasting and the other for boiling and stewing. The kitchens can be seen to-day exactly as they were in Tudor times, with their wide fireplaces fitted with roasting appliances capable of holding an ox, a deer or a pig. Hanging from the wall are to be seen four small skeletons of animals and birds. They are the skeletons of rats and jackdaws discovered when a turret which has been bricked up for many years was re-opened, and it is quite probable that those jackdaws flew about the chimney of the palace, and that the rats ran about the floors of the kitchens at the time Henry VIII. was reigning. It was in this kitchen that the grand banquet given by Henry VIII when he publicly acknowledged Catherine Howard as his Queen was cooked.

GIRLS’ FOOLISH CONDUCT. “ But for the silly conduct of these unruly girls this man might have been alive to-day,” remarked the Bolton Borough Coroner, in returning a verdict of death from natural causes at the inquest on William Joseph Boardman, aged 36, an attendant at the Grand Theatre. Bolton, who collapsed and died after a disturbance, when one minute’ c silence was being observed as a mark of respect for the memory of the late Queen Alexandra. During the silence some young girls in the galler'- commenced laughing and talking loudly, and Boardman and another attendant went to three of them and requested them. to lAavc. after they had disregarded a previous warning. As they were lea\ ing one of the.m made a kick at Boardman and another thumped him in the ribs. A few minutes afterwards he collapsed and died on the way to the infirmary. The coroner said he held the opinion that the collapse was brought about bv the extreme excitement and exertion, and if the girls were not legally liable for the man's death, they were morally responsible.