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ODDS AND ENDS

-RnJ^nE : J hope yau said "Thanfc you" nicely ♦ ' Boy Oh, yes, mamma. -I said it five times ' MammaYou need only have said it once, dear.' Boy • ' Bui T had five pieces of cake, mamma ! » 7 " , l

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Sir Robert Ball, the famous astronomer, after delivering a lecture on ' Sun-spots and Solar ChemistTy,' met a~young lady, who expressed her regret that she had missed hearing the lecture. ' Well, you see,' replied Sir Robert, ' I don't know that it would have interested you particularly; as it was all about sun-spots.' 1 Why,' she replied, 'it would have interested me extremely, for I have been a martyr to freckles' all my -life ! ' A good 1 story told of Lord Iveagh some years ago in our columns "by our Irish correspondent will probably bear repeating. Lord Iveagh is one of the principals in the vast brewery company of Guinness and Co." He was once travelling through Ireland with the Lord Lieutenant, and two. railway carriages were reserved at a certain station, the one for the Lord-Lieutenant and the other for the distinguished brewer. The porter, sticking the ' reserved ' label on the first carriage, remarked reflectively, ' An' that's fox his Ex.,' and at the second carriage, ' An.' this is for his XX.' Many of the cloc! s at Windsor Castle are works of art of the highest order, and one in particular possesses an interest enjoyed" by no other clock in the world. This is the clock that Henry VIII. gave as a present to A nine Boleyn on her wedding day. F-ormerly it belonged to Horace Wai: ole, and when his effects were sola at Strawberry Hill, Qee-en Victoria boupht it for £110 ss. The weights are encased in copper gilt and beautifully engraved— l r. A. and true-lover's knot on one, and- II. A. alone on the other. In a chapter on verbal infelicities, the author of ' Collections and Recollections' relates an anecdote concerning Archbishop Trench, a man of singularly v a gue and dreamy habits, who resigned the See of Dublin on account of advancing years and settled in London. He went some time after to pay a visit to his successor, Lord Ph-nket, father of the present Governor of New Zealand. Finding, himself back again in his old place, sitting at his old dinner-table, and gazing across it at his old wife, he laDsod in memory to the days whe n ho was master of tho house, and gently remarked 1,, Mrs. Trench : n ' I am afraid, my l o \ c, that we must put this cook down among o'ir failures.' What the feelings of Loi d and Lady Plunket were on hearing this comment history does not relate.

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New Zealand Tablet, 2 August 1906, Page 37

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ODDS AND ENDS New Zealand Tablet, 2 August 1906, Page 37

ODDS AND ENDS New Zealand Tablet, 2 August 1906, Page 37