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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 10, 29 June 1888, Page 7

A goo 1 story is toll of the sage old instructor ia Natural history at one of the Eastern Colleges. His class of fun-loving boys were encouraged to brin,; to him any rtra specimens of in9«rs or other interesting natural objects whicii might be found an I there was quite a rivalry in the collection of those varieties A. company of hia students decided to get a rare -pecimen indeed, aod a plan wascoatrivsd which, with tie aid of the venerable doctor's impaired eyesight, they hoped would be a greit success. With a prospect of some rare sport various of the common, insects were dismembered, and the head of onr kin i, the legs of another, with the wings of a third, were caiefully glued npom tle trunk of one still different, At last a H.ring*-!o iking bus? had been manufactured, and the designers of t- is lie* insert wore sitisinei that their work would certainly perplex tu 1 nhort-sighted process >v. With sobvr fa^ea the committee took the wonderfully constructed sp<?cira<"i to the teacher, wno a* first sisrht thmu'hc he saw iv it i. valuable acquisition to bis collection. The class ha 1 crowded around wiih ih" quesaon, " Doctor, what kind of abig is t lat ?" With c >n«i ierab'e expectancy he placed it in his microscope, and the lattf r was evidently too much for its artiflcal j ii'its but without changing his expression of removing his eyeß from the glass, the professor replied, •' Boys, I guess- this is a member of the speeds humbug." Lnat week Mr. Gladstone and other Liberals admitted, in the course of debate, tint the augmenta ion of sentences by a court of appeal was legal, although morally au .iction to which no court of appeal in EnglHnd would condescend. I understand that the le*al advisers of the Liberal leaders have now looked into the matter, and are prepared to show that t.n increase of sentence by a court of appeal is absolu'ely illegal. '1 he only precedent which has been f inhcoming is the case of a Hindoo, who appealed against a sentence uf itn prison men t, and whose senioncs having been changed into hanging by the Court of Appeal at Calcutta, was incontinently hanged. But this seems to ma a disadvantage incident to being a Hindoo un ler our paternal Governmfnt, for as-auredly sneb a moo-i-trous perversion of jus'ico would never have been done on a native of these Islea. — Truth.