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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 29, 9 November 1888, Page 31

"Ratioaal people have long wondered why the Orangeman get up the twelfth of July celebrations iv honour of a King who was not distinguished for religious fervour. A correspondent of the Scottish Leader alleges that their only motive is the desire for a row, and be adduces proof, A Scotchman happened on ''the glorious twelfth" to ha in an Irish village inn. The Orangemen, who had been holding a demonstration in the neighborhood, crowded the hostelry and dran< copious draughts of whiskey. The Scotchman asked one of the Orangemen for what they had met. "Och," said the Orangeman, "'tis the twelfth of July." " But what is there about the twelfth of July ?" asked the Scotchman. "Och, just the twelfth of July and King William." The Scotchman was persistent in his inquiries, but he conld elicit no more satisfactory response than that of a big fellow, who shouted, '■ I don't care a dash for King William, but I'll fight the best man in the kouse. "

'• Medicms" writes to a contemporary from Middlesex Hospital : « Hating foind, in the course of my private practioe and that of tke hospital, a marked increase in cases of malignant throat diseases, I, together with lomi of my colleagues, have made some very careful researches into the causes of this, and finding that males were almost exclnsively affected led us on the track that smoking was, iv a great many instances, the primary cause. lam not by any means one of those who consider the pipe, a cigar, or the ordinary cigarette injuriouß, but am persuaded that the cigarette imported from Egypt or Turkey ii mixed, presumably to give it a peculiar taste or flavour, with some insidious poison, lam led to this conclusion by a carefal analysis of both the home manufacture and that of the foreigu; in the latter a large proportion of opium and an «nclassified alkaloid wos manifest, which was totally absent in the former, and it will be obvioas that »n irritant poison constantly brought into contact witk the region of, perhaps, the most §ensitive part of the human organisation is calculated to briry about trouble. I venture to address you in order to rant ion the public against a serious danger that lurks in their midst. 1