WAIFS AND STRAYS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 6, 6 February 1892, Page 129

WAIFS AND STRAYS.

A fbixsd is seed a plague indeed. A happy bean » better than a heavy purse. * If there is one thing I like,' said toe forger, * it n a good F-ieodship is tbe shadow of tbe erecisg, which st eegtoens wito tbe resting sea of life. A Hide e. 5.3 oever looks so big so the world as ne does when be stands on a bag uf moneyThere are two kinds of hypocrite—toe joid and tbe humfoe —and the hemUe ones are toe worst. A great tats can disappoint his enemies ->**: by dying and so eaetpeHing toem to bold toeir taegues out of decency. TSe good die young. The other* become o’ less ia'oala- ***** lie about toe weatoe*, their age, aau anything else that eome* handy. Les ary old man advise a younger one and he will say. ‘Ee patient-' The old may never have lea-ned bow to be psuiens, bat they nave learaea toe value of it. A nan of 193 rounds is suing for divosee t ons a p.xind wife, • >*. be says, would take bins and toss him up so the rev*****, aoi allow aim to drop so toe fioo, jest to see bow it sounded. T.-.-e-e is a want too tuueh Sos* right of in our estimate of •be prirarioes of tbe hambier classes, toongh it is one of the bmssi inee*san**y erasing of all oar vuis, mi is aelaally the impelling power, which, in the vas: majority of ease, urge-* men into r*oe leu eriuse. It is toe want of tmesemena. tocrw axo pt-kacbet. Par**?® »r»d Aoesce .wcwd i® -.ee Most suuabiy we is: : Tbe ccw jibe suffer.rc tour treats. The ocSer *n>.&* toe mtod. Tse tvasrem show* toe way to boavex ; At*i toe®. » *l® sendee- care, Tbe donor romsonausac* - the work. Al&d g’i'Lr- xat»c pOULuSIi Badlv PsrvErTED Ixgexittt.—Over 100 tools and processes, wnSea are marvels of ingrasiiy and seseaiide knowledge, hare been invented by sate burglars. A rec-ent burglar'a oatot captured by rise poJiee consisted of a tittle giant knob-breaker, a diar-*>n-i drill and a high explosive of lire nature of dyisasniie, bat put up in toe fo-m of a powder. It would open the stroegest tank' safe in a half hows, and without noise errou.-h to disnsrn the psople in tbe nerl while toe entore oatoi eoald be ra.-.-ie. in toe pockets <f an «?rdinsry eaax.

Foe SjcsLS w HosotFC.—They say a Sicilian dremrs;r. daring sse Freoeh oeeapasioß of Ealeruso. was senletKed to be shot. He was a weii-kr»own reward, it: it was fearea he woold riisg—ane ais eonnsry ar toe last mssnear in toe presence of toe F resneb soldiers, who had a way of being toot with a good grace and a ligfc t hear: : toey had grown accastonsed to it. For toe hooosr of Sieily his eaafess®r toad nira, in the st,-iciest ckhib Jetwe. toss ids senresee was a z3H»tk one, sod tiiar he w.sald te are>d ar wits t>;ank esnri3ges. It was a rdoas frand. AH bat two of the twelve cartriices had bctoess. and be ‘ell. riddled tonoa-sn scd torwaca. No Frenchman ever died with a lighter heart, a tetter grace. He was ssperb. and toe Bational boocwr w a savei. Thriee happy Sicilian dmm-major, if toe be srae 1 Tant trass in :-Ank cartridges was his paratise.

Bo* th® Dckb was CaCght.—Toe Dake of Orleans was warned toas an attempt was aboct to te mate to serve him wito a estatiocs as carespondent in the divorce suit, am his servants nave teen on toe isr for sn>.p ; -ioas sr-mrers. At St- Johann, to Moravia, where toe Prince was staying wito Baron Hlrsch, several stracagenjs were triad froittesssy. One Wednesday morning, hortve. as be arrived at Vienna. HRH got neatly eaagat. Two gastlesaea to evening dress asked leave to present a l*>s- <■ net ant a re-let.inn as toe Dake stepped iron: toe rail wav carriage. He han ied toe fi-rwers to a seer-iary and opened toe periaasa, whii-a was neatly tied wito rib-sos. No sooner, however, di i * ' jeioria. by the Grace of G *i,‘ reaeii his eye man he realised what had happened, and Ringing toe pagse-s from him, etrsed wito aoeoey toe raptoiy retreating form of toe

OraaE People — Othes: Maxseel—M<s Grimwood gives an amusing acco-ant of an attempt she m vie to provide eJocntog fur some Naga ga-deners :—‘ The Nagas never bncdesi tbesnseives wito too many e<-:-t>bes, an-, these to particular w ore lii-lie beside a neekiaee or t wo. I mentooced to is tact to a spinster lady friend of mine on one oeeasiem. and she was so horrified that she sent me shortly afterwards nine parrs of isattitor-d'nwers to be given to toem. They were very beaurifal garments; some had red and w hire st.-ipes. scene blue, and toey were all very e'-eam f r-reset-ted toem gravely oee momixs to my nine Ma. is, and a few days arierwaris I went into toe ga >--ea in toe evening and found Two of toe men at One aad made a b-o4e in his bathing apparatus and put his bead through it, while his arms went into toe pisses for toe legs, and he was wearing it with great pride a« a jacket : and toe other hau arranges hi< wito an eye for toe arttstie on bis beau as a turban. Aller this I gave up trying to inenleate oeeeney into toe mind of toe untutoreu savage.'

New-laid Ezxis—by Machtkeey.—The aniSrial nuifsemre of ergs is now an acornp.'isied faen Mr James Stoney, of Kansas City, has taken oat a patent, and is said io be erecting a factory, in view of doing a large onsipess. Mr Stoney’s ingredients are lime water, bollock’s beood, nriik. tallow, peas, and a few other things, iaelading some secret chemical preparations. The macnioe-y foe patriag the egg together is very ingrains. First the yolk is ran into a mooid to be properly shaped, ami is then dumped into a seeood mould, wnieh eontatss the right proporrion of toe preparation which stands for the white. This, being a gelatinous substance, encases toe yolk very readily. Then, by m-eans of a sperial machine, the whole >< covered with a sheli, made of litas water ani give, which hardens after is is sen Mr Sio-rey guarantees his eggs to keep new laid ' for a month, and be says be ean torn them out as a cost which will allow of toeir being retailed as toe rase of three half-pence per dorea.