Odds and Ends.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2087, 1 July 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Odds and Ends.

Dollle. She sports a witching gown With a ruffle up and dewn On the skirt. She ie gentle, she is shy, But there’s mischief in her eye; She’s a flirt. She displays a tiny glove And a dainty little love Of a shoe. And she wears her hat a-tilt Over bangs that never wilt I n the dew. ’Tis rumored chooolate creams Are the fabric of her dreams— But enough 1 I know beyond a doubt That she carries them about In her muff. With her dimples and 1 er curls She exasperates the girls Past belief; They hint that sho’s a cat, And delightful things like that In their grief. It is shocking, I declare ! But what does Dollie care When the beaux Come flocking to her feet Like the bees ar jnnd a sweet Little rose ? An Inventory—with Comments. Item: some hair—soft, golden brown. She wears it as it were a crown. Item : two eyes. They look at me, Although there's little there to see. Item : two lips. To sing, speak, kiss, In none of these are they amiss. Item ; a smile. It flits away Ere I its beauties can portray. Item : two hands—so fair and line. Too fair, I fear, to mate with mine. Item: two feet. To kick, in play, Thetellies of the world away. Item : her dress. Alas! we men Cannot describe beyond our ken. Item : a voice. Its music stirs The heart-strings of her worshippers. Bach note those fiower-like lips set free A rosebud’s perfume seems to me. Item ; four words. My heart’s consoled — “I love you, too”—and all is told.

Fortune-after SO many knock-down blows, has outdone all previous displays of fickleness by presenting Sir Charles Dilke with a legacy of £170,000. The fortune comes from the remnants of the Snooke family, of which John Snooke married Dilkc’s great aunt, in 1804. It has been said that Sir Charles would be obliged to change his name to Snooke in order to get the money, but that is not so. Now that he is able to sink so comfortable a gnm, Dilke may put into execution the scheme of publishing a daily newspaper, which he has long cherished. In his will Snooke declares he gave up his original plan of leaving everything to Ashton Dllke’s children because he had become convinced that Sir Charles was an innocent and persecuted man.

John Chinaman, With his usual shrewdness, has hit upon an article of export from Germany, which has thns far escaped the attention of the enterprising Teutons. It is neither more nor less than cast-off horseshoes, of which some Berlin firms are about to ship some 3000 to 4000 tons. The “heathen Chinee” has found out that the wrought iron, of which horseshoes are made, owing to the constant and even hammering on the navement, together with the equine animal teat, gradually assumes the hardness of steel, combined with great malleability and elasticity—qualities which fit them more especially for the manufacture of knives and sword blades.

An interesting lawsuit will shortly come before the Paris Courts. The plaintiff, Mdlle. Baudry Lacantinerie, is a lady of good family and was for some years a nun belonging to the order of “ Bon Secours.’’ It is alleged that her superiors, finding her in a chronic state of bad health, gave her notice to leave. The lady now sues for damages for wrongful dismissal. The late Archbishop of Paris, to whom the nun appealed, decided against the plaintiff, on the grounds that she was unfitted for community life. The case promises to afford some curious details, resembling in some way the well-known Sanrin case of the English Courts. Labouchere says: The zeal of perverts is notorious. When an American dame honors us (as, indeed, many do) with her presence, and obtains|acce;s to the charmed circle in which Royalty moves and has its being, her loyalty is effusive. A lire. Brown Potter, a lady who gave some recitations here last season, writes that of all her mementoes of England, she values most some pins given to her by the Prince of Wales, and 1 have observed with surprise that this utterance is deemed so interesting that it is “ going the rounds” of the newspapers.

The Queen of Naples is going in for gymnastics in Paris. A correspondent saw her twice, once in a jacket of astrakan. She was superintending the laying out of a track for her lessons in equitation. The second time she was in a blue costume, and looked more earnest than pretty. She was lunging out at a fencing master in Lopez’s gymnasium.

The Duke of Edinburgh, her Majesty’s second son, has sued a carter named Lyons for taking stones off his Eastweil Park estate. His Royal Highness wanted £2l 18s. An obliging court allowed him £lB. He is the gentleman who is credited with having sold in London the presents heaped upon him in Australia.

Dr. Hainswald the African traveller, says that in Zululand ho met the savage who killed the French Prince Imperial, and told him that if he had only taken the young man prisoner be might have got a large ransom, whereupon the Zulu wept with regret and grief. MIBB Camilla Webb, daughter of a former banker in Washington, one of the greatest beauties in that city, was a clerk in the office of the Comptroller of the Currency for some years. She married Baron von Haire, Ambassador from the Netherlands, and is now of the Queen’s household.

Mrs. Rosenberg, of the Treasury Department, U. S., is considered one of tbc very best counterfeit detectors in the world. Hundreds and thousands of dollars have been thrown out by her remarkable skill, after they have been passed by less astute detectors. She receives £450 per annum. An eating-housekeeper advertised for “ a boy to open oysters fifteen years old." When an oyster becomes sach a veteran, its age should be kept a secret the same as a spring chicken's. An oyster ought to be able to open itself long before it reaches its fifteenth year. An Irishman somewhatdisguised in liquor was shouting in Edinburgh, "Three cheers for Home Rule." A Scotsman (probably a supporter of Mr. Qoschon) shouted in answer, " Three cheers for Hades." “You are right," stud the Irishman, “ every one should stick np for his own country." A news item says: “A single oyster opened tbe other day by a Fair Haven, D. S., man contained 1(13 pearls.” That is doing pretty well for a single oyster. It is extremely doubtful if a married oyster ever produced so many pearls.

Cheese two hundred years old has been discovered in Switzerland. Some of this cheese may be found in saloons in this country. From the robust flavor of the stuff wc supposed it was about two hundred thousand years old, 530