Yes or No?

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1800, 19 January 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

Yes or No?

A. RONDEMJ. A good man's love { Oh, prithee, stay, Uefore you turn such gift away, And write no uneonsidered "No" To him who proves ho lovess you so, And humbly owns your regal sway. For hcails may change, the ">vise folk say, And as lull oft the brightest lay l' l ades in an hour, so too may go A good man's love. Then pause awhile. This short delay May gladden many an after-day. Search well your heart, and if it show True signs of lo\e, bid piide bend low, And take this great gift while you may — A good man's love I

-G. Weaiherly.

lljß.ni.. is a ktory of the English actor, Lionel Brough :— One night, while they were playing " Blue Beard " at the Folly (now Toole's) Theatre, in a btage box (the boxes tbcre arc usually near the stage) was a youth sleeping off the effects of a too heavy dinner. His closed eyes and nodding head worried B rough, till at length he was constrained to cross the stage, touch the sleeper (be cannot be called an auditor or a spectator) on the aim, and remark, in a tone o£ much sympathy: "I'm afraid I'm keeping you up, sir." The appaient sincerity ol the acto v 's manner was hresistibly quaint, and the young man, awakened by the shout of laughter, slept no more till he reached home.

Qoiik gorgeous railroad cars are run between Pans and Bucharest. They are carpeted with Smyrna rugd two inches thick, and tho sides ox the compaitments are covered paxtly with embossed Japanese leather paper, and partly with Gobelin tapestry. The diningroom cars, in which triumphs of l 7 rench cookery are served, are supplied with handsome clocks, damask curtains, and Venetian mirrors. Breakfast consists of five courses, and dinner of eight. The sleeping-cars are splendidly furnished, and have hot as well as cold water. The average speed ig forty miles an hour.

An unfoitunhte young man by the name of Percy W. Hastings, living in Leomhter, Mass., whoso body below bis neck was completely paralyzed by a fall in a gymnasium three years ago, has learned to paint in water colors, holding the brush between his leeth. An attendant mixes the colors and puts the brush in his mouth. His sliill is said, by those who have seen the results of it, to be surprising, and his progress is so lapid that his friends actually expect his paintings to attain celebrity by reason of their artistic value, independently of the j^hysical dexterity •which produces them.

This annecdote h told of the late Commodore Vanderbilt : — At Saratoga, on one occasion, when sitting on the piazza of a hotel, a somewhat overdressed lady approached and claimed his acquaintance. The commodore rose and talked affably with her, while his wife and daughter sniffed the air with scorn. " Father," said the young lady, as the commodore resumed his seat, " didn't you remember that vulgar Mrs. B as the woman who used to sell poultry to us at home ? " "Certainly," responded the old gentleman promptly, " and I remember your mother when she used to sell root beer at three cents a glass over in Jersey when I went up there from Staten Island peddling oysters out of my boat." As this homely reply was heard by a group surrounding the family, there was no further attempt at aristocratic airs on the part of the ladies during that season.

The game of billiards was invented about the middle of the sixteenth century by a London pawnbroker named William Kew. In wet weather this pawnbroker was in the habit of taking down three balls and with the yardrneasure pushing them, billiard-fashion, from the counter into the stalls ; in time the idea of a board with side-pockets suggested itself. A black-letter manuscript says : " Master William Kew did make one board whereby a game is played with three balls ; and all the young men were greatly recreated thereat, chiefly the young clergymen from St. Pawles; hence one of ye strokes waa named a • cannon,' having been by one of ye said clergymen invented. The game is now known by the name of • bill-yard,' because William or Bill Kew did first play with a yard-measure. The stick is called a ' kew or « kue.' '' _ It is easy to comprehend how "bill-yard" has been modernized into " billiard ; " and the transformation of " kew," or " kue," into " cue," is equally apparent.— The Argonaut.

The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, -without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life and understands the use o£ it; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper and steadfast as an anchor. For such a one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker. — Lessing.

,Thb hire-ciaßS— All sorts of laborers.