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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1626, 6 March 1884, Page 2

It is reported from America that Mr Langtry lias arrived in that country, and is following his wife about from place to place; and that Mrs Langtry lias, once at least, been obliged to " fall ill" to avoid the scandal of meeting him. Between Freddio and his Nemesis, Mrs Langtry is again becoming the central figuvo in the show business. London storekeepers are oeing victimised in an . aggravating manner A light trap conveys three or four men into districts were they are not known, and one of them ascertains tho position of till or cash-box by requesting chango for a sovereign. Shortly afterwards the vehicle is driven up, and one of tho confederates enters the shop and sends out the proprietor or shopman to receive an order from Ihe driver. This affords an opportunity for appropriating the money. The transaction outside is then abruptly broken off, and the dog-cart Dick Turpins are away with their plunder as rapidly as their Black Bess in traces can carry them. This plan, as ingenious as it is dishonest, is proving so successful that the chief of the police has issued an official warning to those whom it may concern to be on their guard, A Mr T. R, AUinson has put before the readers of 'The' Times' the result of some experiments that he has just made with the purpose of solving the difficulty of feeding the poor in London A month ago he determined to live without'flesh of any kind, milk, butter or eggs cheese, tea, or coffee. After a month his weight had increased The following passage explains the diet which cost Gd per day" Breakfast consisted of a basin of porridge made from a mixture of oatmeal and wheatmeal, which I found more palatable than either singly. This I usually ate with tread, to ensure thorough insali • vation. Then came bread fried in refined cotton seed oil, or fried vegetable haggis; for drink I had a cup of cocoa, or fruit syrup with warm water and sugar. The cocoa used was an ordinary one, with plenty of starch in it, which makes a thick drink, and no milk is then required. Dinner consisted of a thick vegetable soup and bread, potatoe pie, savory pie, vegetarian pie, vegetable stew, stewed rice and tomatoes, etc. For a second course I had bread plum pudding, stewed rice and fruit, baked sago, tapioca and apples, stewed prunes, figs, raisins and bread. Tea meal consisted of bread and jam, stewed fruit, or some green stuff, as watercress, celery, tomatoes, etc. I Lad only three meals a-day, and frequently, : when busy, I had only two, and a cup of cocoa and a biscuit for supper." Strange accidents and incidents sometimes occur to mar tho perfect progress of ever the best rehearsed and most carefully prepared plays. Charles Kean once overset a bottle of ink in his dressing room, and to prevent it ruining several valuable articles lying near hastily wiped it off with his handkerchief. At this moment he was called and unthinkingly put the handkerchief in his pocket. During a most pathetic scene he pulled it out and wiped his eyes, transforming himself at one fall swoop into the image of Othello. An incident of this kind forms the most striking bit of comic business introduced by Charles Wyndham in "The Great Divorce Case." Pearls (says an authority on the subject) are not a disease of the oyster, but little 'grains of sand, which, encysted in the oyster, are finally covered with a smooth deposit—which is the pearl. ' The name of the Bag o' Nails Inn, in London, was a puzzle to everybody till an antiquary renovated one of the old signs, and discovered that Bag o 1 Nails was a corruption of Bacchanals, . In England, Scotland, and Wales there are mere than 74,000 persons employed in preventing, detecting, and punishing crime, Midway's Pi/fe.-The Greatest Boon ol Modern Times.—These searching Pills act directly on the liver, correct the bile, purify the system, renovate _ the debilitated, strengthen the stomach, increasethe appetito, invigorate the nerves, and reinstate the weak to an ardour of feeling never before experienced. The sale of these Pills throughout the globe astonishes everybody, convincing tho most sceptical that there is no Medicine equal to Eolloway's Pills for removing the complaints which are incidental t& the human race. They are indeed a blessing to the afflicted, and a boon to those who sufier from .any disorder, internal or external. Thousands of persons have testified that by their use ate they have been restored to health after other remedies had proved unavailing, TracK heads.—Heavy stomachs, biliouß conditions-" Wells' May Apple Pills'-anti« bilious, cathartic, 5d anfl Is, N. Z, Drag