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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 31, 11 July 1872, Page 3

Mr. Edwin James, in the. course of a lecture on America, delivered in London, said: " Everyone haa an • iera. , " To illustrate this ho would rend a list of announcements of lectures delivered on New Year's Eve at Boston, " devoted to tU ladies ":—" Mrs. Emma Britten lectured upon the question " Whether man, as an inferior being, had any right to the euflerage." Mrs. George Vandenoff discussed "The Eights and Wrongs of Children." Dr. Harriet Clisby lectured at Fraternity-hall, before the Moral Science Association, upon "The Law of Transmission and Hereditary Effects of Alcohol upon Man." Victoria Woodhall gave her experience* tipon " Free Love tnd.the Absurdity of the Marriage Systom." Miss Charlotte CuAinan commented upon " Sbakspeare;" Miss Snjffin upon " Spiritualistic Influences, f and Miss Edith Gotfraan ttpon "Converitual 1 Experiences." —In the same lecture b© asserts that in Atnericti politics naa become a trade, public attentipn had at last; been directed to the enormdfls extent to which the corrupt exercise of State patronage, and the bribery of Judges had been 1 earned on> an he proved by reading extracts frbtn : several of the principal American journal*,

I read the oflwr 4»v fcow .the postmen ; W,»ie parte of India had been "interfered with . by, the tigers, meaning that the tigers had shallowed the postmen off the half-shell, as you might put it. This is rather. a. neat v/*y r though, of saying an ugly thing, and Teminde one of the Yankee way of speaking the word "difficulty." They tell a yarn how a man eomewhere in America got into a railway car, looking a deal damaged. One arm was in a sling, the other hand was tied round with rags ; his nose was cut, about,,a».if been scored with, a bldnt chopped; a few teeth had had notice to|j quit, and one eye was in a' alirig; while the other , was in mourning. V Stranger," asks a neighbour of this injured party, " haven't you been having a pretty rough time somewhere*?", "Not a bit on it," replies the stranger, "I've only been aetthn a little 'difficulty' With » few friends down about here." " Yes," eay» tbe inquisitive chap, Vbufc I reckon you've had the worst of it, anyhow ; whj, you've only got one ey* left,, stranger." To this the stranger replied, after a pause, "No, I guess I. didn't get the worst of it. I left one eye among •cm—jest so ; but see hero. Put your hand in my ri"ht pocket-rthere, that's Jack. Johnson's nose. Now try the left pocket- that's a bit of Jim Scallywag's ear, and two of Carolina' Bill's fingers: I didn't Come out df ihe difficulty that bad as you might have expected. Beside*,, there was an assorted lot of teeth and things left on the ground." This was something like a ■' difficulty. " — John Pecrybirujle. A Sonographic Transformation.—A certain lecturer quoted the Milionic couplet:— " But come thou goddess fair' and free, . In Heaven yclep'd Euphrosyne." and had the pleasure of reading 'the next Lmornlng ; the following stenographic transformation i—, " But canje thiit goddess fair and free, In-heaven ahe'crept and froze her knee.