Odds and Ends.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2079, 10 June 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Odds and Ends.

Says Tom to Bill— pray tell me sir why is ittbat the devil, In spite of all his naughty ways, Can never be uncivil 1 Says Bill to Tom—the answer's plain To any mind that’s bright; Because the “imp o'darkness,” sir, Can ne'er be imp o’ light!" » » ♦

Owen Moore has run away— Owin' more money than ho can pay I * * *

“ Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life’s evening gray; Strike thy bosom, sage and tell, What is life, and which the way?” Thus I spake and, speaking, sighed:— Scarce repressed the starting tear — When the hoary sage replied, “ Come, my lad, and, drink some beer 1”

« • * Dean Swift's Lises to Molly : Mollis abuti; Moll is a beauty, Hasanacuti; Has an acute eye; Nolas o finis; No lass so fine is; Molli divinis ; Molly divine is; 0 mi de armis tres; O ray dear mistress, Imi na dis tres; I’m in a distress; Cantu disco ver Can’t you discover Sicas alo ver I Me as a lover ?

If anybody had foretold that in the year of grace ISSii a really “new and original play ” would be produced at a lending London theatre, that the principal character would be played by a person who bad heretofore been known only as an amateur, and that it would run for the best part of a twelvemonth, he would probably have been regarded as a person very much “left to himself.” Yet all this happened in the case of Jim the Penman, which was withdrawn from the London stage some three weeks ago.

France has twelve young hostages taken from Madagascar, all male, as a pledge of the good conduct of the (jueen. It is a little barbaric, more so as La France has not consffiered it necessary to give any warm wardrobe to the young people, and ns they wear the aerial gauze or linen of their native land, they arc all down with terrible colds, while one has quickly developed symptoms of consumption. They have not breath enough now to respond with the usual salute vive la France, at weekly inspection time.

The English court of chancery, even in Lord Eldon’s time was speedy in its proceedings as compared with some of the Herman Courts. The tribunal of Wuerzburg recently decided a suit which commenced in 17,*5, between the Commune of Burgheim and the Baron von Thuengen. The case, however, may well last for another century, as notice of appeal has been given, and it may be carried before two higher tribunals. Pew Irishmen, perhaps none, are aware that the Prince of Ulidia (Ulster) is at present residing at 79 Hue Longchamp, Passy, Paris. 13. S. Dan Levi, legal descendant of Andrew Maurice Don Levi who left Ireland with James 11., has bis genealogy complete, together with all bis family "papers from James 11. to the present day legalized by all the powers of Europe, under whose Government his ancestors held office.

Mrs. Lucy Tempest, an Englishwoman who aimed at immortality, left her money to the Homo for Lost and Starving Dogs on condition that the canine inmates of that establishment should fast on her death-day; but her envious relatives vow that she was mm eompm mentis, and threaten to prevent her fortune from going to the dogs.

The Court Journal says that the colored persons who inhabit Paris are to have a ball soon, to which none hut “ darkies " will be invited. The organizer of the entertainment is a lady of Ethiopian race, supposed to be in her way as great a beauty as La Bello Katina, who has been the rage for months.

The New Yorkers have a novelty; it is a ladies’ walking club. It daily sets forth from the Louse of a member, gathering accessions as it travels by the houses where other members are waiting to fail in line, and by tiro time it reaches the park it is quite a formidable as well as a fascinating squadron. Mrs- Langtry writes to the proprietor of an American " complexion cream ” that she uses the commodity religiously. It is rather curious that such an obvious truth should be found worthy of embodiment in an advertisement. Xo one, surely, would suspect the daughter of the Dean of Jersey using anybody or anything “ irreligiously 1" A rather Odd notion, even for Paris, is the appearance of a few elegantly-dressed young ladies in the streets as walking advertisements. They must not be called sandwiches ; they are transcendency above that. The splendid ball dresses they wear are rn advertisement of the costumier, whose name is appended. This year's vintage in France is poor in quantity and bad in quality, The falling off may be estimated from these figures; 1875, 1,830,000,000 gallons; 1880, 553,023,000 gallons, Eleven years ago France exported fifteen bottles to every one that she imported ; now she imports four to every one she exports.

Lord Randolph Churchill's last official act was to decide the status of a farthing. He wrote in reply to a querist that if an article is marked 11J. or even le„ the payment may wholly be made in farthings; but if any article is marked at Is o|d. fifty-one farthings would not be legal tender. The discovery of some paintings in the recent excavations in Pompeii in the new part east of the large tavern with an aquarium, opened in 1879 and 1880, has created cansiderablc interest. The pictures are so peculiar and different from anything yet seen.

General Kaulbars has publicly announced that the impudent letters ho receives from all parts of the - world do not annoy him in the least, but arc finite welcome, as the foreign stamps on them are given by him to his daughter to enrich her stamp album. Miss Mary Anderson is in Paris devoting her entire energies to mastery of the French language, which she studies every afternoon with a French professor. She will appear at the Gaiety in New York next May in a new drama by Gilbert. A feature of London life last Christmas was the exceeding largeness of the American colony which had pitched its tents here. It was larger than it had ever been, and it promises to increase.

Great Britain makes from her own orchards 220,01)0,000 gallons of cider annually, and imports about 900,000 barrels of apples from the United States. Tomatoes were grown as mantel ornaments in Eastern Pennsylvania in 1837. As late as 1837 in Connecticut, they were regarded as poisonous. The life and adventures of Louis Biel, the Canadian rebel, have been dramatized and put on the stage at the Theatre Boyal, Quebec, in a realistic way. A Russian surgeon of groat eminence has set an excellent example ; he has killed himself owing to the failure of an operation he performed. Mr- Gladstone is engaged upon a work connected with the Olympian religion. Mme Nilsson sang recently at Antwerp in 11 Tnn'afore, and was recalled twenty times.