WHAT THE WOLF REALLY SAID TO LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD.

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 203, 28 August 1873, Page 3

WHAT THE WOLF REALLY SAID TO LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD.

One of the curiosities of the Win a j'eud Asylum is J)r Euston, an elderly gentleman, who foimcrly send in the Itoyal Navy. He is not vciy mid, only just sufficiently so to justify his detention. J 1 is eccentuutics .ire, that he has magnified freemasonry into a s< u'uee and a religion, and is devoted to Greek nlloijoi^ lie hv. some slvill with the brush, and co\ers llic w.ills of the cottajje in which lie lives with cartoons illustrative of hi* put subject, and those pictures are generally shown to a .sitors tit ho n?\lum, who, however, find the artnt moie cutcrt.tinng than ln-> works. From these visitors the doctor has been in (ho habit of receiving small sums of money, and the sum thus collected he has now put to so sensible ft use that it is plain )o be soon ho is not mad all round the compass. Having tiod up his collection of coins in a neat bag, he sent it as a gift to tiio poor-bo\ nt the City Court, with tho following inscription neat.ly written on a label attached, viz. — "TiionU-one ounocs of bilver, gathered through small toll-" solicited from who have ' heard expounded the Euslonian Cartoons (alter Oriental and Greek allegories), ft labor of love devoted expressh to that charity which effects tlio greatest atpoimt of good with the smallest incuiH— tho. Central Police Court poor-box, Melbourne " On the label there are also these mottoes — •" Hie i aim sanctifies the mean*," and "Go thou and do lilcwiso." If some people not in the Yarra Bend will take the latter hint, something more may come of tho Greek allegory than tho poor fellow's 21oz of miscellaneous silver coin. They attempted to kill a book agent in Omaha latch He was robbed, thrown into the river, knocked off tho cars pitched from a high bridge into the river ng.ua, but in two hours after he came around with k new illustrated edition of the Bible, and tried to get the subscription of the leader of the attacking part j.

(By Ehkt ILvnrß.) Wondering maiden, so puzzled and fair, Why dost thou m annul" mid ponder find slave ? Why arc ray eyelids so open and wild ?—? — Only thejbettcr to sec with, my child ! Ouly the better and clearer to view Cheeks that aro rosy, and eyos that are blue. Dost thou still wonder, and ask why thesn) arms Fdl thy soft bosom with tender alarms, Swaying so wickedly ? — are they misplaced, Clasping or shielding some delicate waist " J lrmrls whose coarse smews m.iy fill yon with fear Only the better protect you, my dear ! Liffle Kcd Biding-Hood, when in the street, Why do I press your small hand when wo meet? Why, when you timidly offered your ehceJr, Why did I sigh, and why didn't I speak ? Why, well : you sec — if the truth n\u>t uppoiir — I'm not jour grandmothci, Red Riding-Hood, dear!

Tin: Sci"\n at tme Demit. — Then you find yourself in n stream of foot-passengers walking across the Epsom meadows, with an an* of less conscious merit indeed, but not much lighter or more buoyant than if they wore going to church, amidst a number of vendors of race-cards and jockejs' colors wlnyhsplay the avidity of hungry hope rather than any of tho jo^ousness of the auxiliaries at afestnal. 'lhen you pass a "sandwich," on whoso boards are flaunted one or two texts about the lake of fire and the Book of Life, texts so selected as to persuade those who road them that if their names arc written in tho Book of Life they are safe w lietlier they go to the Derby or not, and if their names are not there written, they may go to the Derby without losing am thin^ by the indulgence; and then you hear a hoarse voire telling you, in hart>h and would-be solemn accents, that if " you believe in the name" of the Lord, " you shall be •aved." Enjoyment and religion seem alike unreal to you, more ihows of little moaning, sounds vibrating on tho surfuco of life that come from no real minds beneath. And then at last tlic stream of humanity verges on the wide, , rolling downs, where tho chalk crops out here and there through tlio short turf, and London is encamped in all sorts of motley groups, that nevertheless cover but a small portion '. of tho Vast stretches of undulating grass, and vehicles of nil nods, from the young member of Parliament's four-in-hand to the omnibus of the shopkeeper and the costermonger's cart, arrive in a constant succession, full of gaily clothed company, and discharge their freight to feed or flirt, or - engage in unreal-looking sports among the booths of the ( I great fair. Nothing is more curious than to sec tho si ill unthawed dpineanour of tho vulgar pleasure-seekers in the early hours of the day — pleasure-seekers who betake themselves shyly to the archery, or the Aunt Sally, or the merry-go-rounds distributed over the Downs. They bashfully mount the hobb> -horso named after various Derby and other f.ivontcs, encouraged by the example of demure damsels who are evidently paid to set the games going, and who ride on their wooden horjes, which arc whirled round by little .steam engines, with an air of indifferent and business-like fidelity to professional duty that is in curious contrast to tho • Higgle of the stray experimenter in the joys of the place and the day. Tho effect of these- funny little se'entific applications of the steam-engine to the task of making giddy heads giddier by rapid revolutions in Vanity Fair, of the revolving wooden Lorses and the half-ashamed, lmlf-pleased riders-, while gay horsemen galloped about between the more aristocratic parties, and the unharnessed horses patiently eat out of their nose-bagitan complete indifl'crcnco to tho scene around them, is strangotv dreamlike. The scene has all the f.intastic incoherence and odd variety of a dream — misplaced gr.wity where you would look for mirth, animal dignity in contrast with human levity, and the quaintest possible patchwork of science with vulgar associations. — The Spectator. Wild I^sts in India. — An important paper was read at the rooms, of the Social Science Society, bv Captain Rogers, on the " Destruction of Human Life and Property in India by Noxious Wild Animals." Tho facts made public by Cnpt. Rogers will be quite astounding to English cars. It appears that the inhabitants of the border lands between jungle and cultivation aro killed and eaten by tigers in such numbers as to require the immediate and serious attention of Government both in India and in England. We give a few out of many instances. — " A single tigress caused tho destruction of 13 villages, and 236 square miles of country were thrown out of cultivation." " Wild bracts frequently obstruct Government survey parties. In iB6O one tigress killed 127 people, and stopped a public road for many weeks." "In January, 18G8, a panther broke into the town of Chicola, and attacked, without the slightest provocation, the owner of a field. Four persons were dangerously wounded, and one died." " Maneating tigers are causing great loss of life along the whole range of Nallay Mallay Forest. There are five of them. One » said to haw destroyed 100 people." " Writing from Nuydunea, 1809, a gentleman says one tigrpss, in 1867-8-9. killed respectively 27, 31, and 47— total, 108 people. This same tiger killed a f.ithcr, mother, nnd three children ; and the week before she wm shot she killed seven people." "In Lower .Bengal alone, in a period of six years, wero killed by wild boasts 13,101 In South Canaree, in July, ISG7, 40 human beings were killed by wild beasts." Finally, Captain Rogers concludes by telling us that the Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces in his report show 3 the following terrible returns of human beings killed by tigers : — In 1866-67, 372 ; lHfi7-68, 289; 18G8-G9, 285— total, 9J«. It appears that there are difficulties in the way of killing down these tigers. First, t lie superstition of the nutives, who regard the "manr.\tmg Uger" as n kind of incarnate and spiteful divinity, whom it is dangerous to offend ; secondly, the failures of Government rewards; thirdly, the desire of cortum classes m India actually to preserve tigers as game, to be shot with the rifle as a mntter of sport. Captain Rogers exhibited an ingenious self-acting spring gun for the destruction of tigers. An animated discussion followed, in which Lord Napier and Etlriok, K.T., the chairman of tlic meeting, and other gentlemen connected with Indiii, including native*, took part. Various remedies were proposed. Among them Mr Frank Auckland suggested an organized destruction of the tiger cubs in the breeding season, and the attraction of full-grown tigers to traps, pit-falls, and other dc\iecs, by means of a dm* of valerian, of which tigers (which are only gigantic cits) are exceedingly fond, lie defended English sportsmen against the imputation of even conniving at the preservation of tigers for sport at the expense of tho lives of men, women, and children in India. Finally, a commit leo of the society was appointed, with a view of calling the attention of the Duko of Argyll and tho Government to the necessity of organizing somo means of killing tigers in India. Lndy Mayo was present, and expressed to the orticcis of tho society her approbation of the anti-tiger movement. — Land nud Wat or. Tbt.kokaphino and Racing.— lt appeai'3 Hint there were forwarded from and received at Bosom during the " Derby" week no fowor than 10,000 messages. Of theso 3,500 accrued on tho Derby" day itself, and about 2,500 on the " Oaks' " dny. The telegraphing for tho Press amounted to upwards of 35,000 woHs ; while of foreign telegrams more than 150 Wire sent. A staff of 20 clerks was employed throughout the meeting, and the sjbtetns of telegraphy at work embraced the Wheat stone automatic and duplex instruments. "No, Catherine," said Patrick talus wife, "yon never catch a falsehood coming out of in> mouth." "You may will any tlut," replied K.itc, " tl.<»\ fly out bo fust that nobody can catch Via ''