MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1212, 25 December 1882, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

! Their^i Hon. W. E. Gladstone i his received nuvn vous con^r.itulatory i letters addr;ssod on the jubilee oihis P:i ■1 ; imciit i:yl if ■> . Ho w.is first elected (in t!;o Couscrvative interest) for Newark, at tlie general election in December, 1802. " A country editor" writing in ' Tlip Vict^-viiivi r.-'vlw ' k;- S-.'ptrmber, suj-

gests the establishment of a school of journalism, or a chair of journalism in connection with the university, and the conferment of certificates of competency for the various positions upon the literary staff of a newspaper. An amusing and veracious story is going the round of the Paris papers of which the vivacious Mdle. Van Zandt is the heroina She recently visited the Musee Gievin, and on seeing an empty niche with the usual crimson drapery, she popped in, and arrangedment the curtains so as only to show her piquante face and becoming Virot hat, waited to hear the result. Presently an ultra-fashionable young lady came up and said languidly, •So this is supposed to be Mdle. San Zandt. Very pretty, but no likeness; I never should have known it' This was too much for the gravity of la belle Marie. With a poal of merry laughter she stepped | from the pedestal and fled, ! Twenty thousand Germans recently celebrated their harvest home in the Schulzen Park, Philadelphia. The chief feature in the festival was a procession, iv the following order : — Section 1. Committee of arrangement; burgomaster, schoolmaster, freeholders, peasants, policeman of Swabian village. Section 2. reapers and gleaners. An clegautly decorated, cluiriofc with Cores and emblems of agriculture. A country waggon with sheaves, of wheat, drawn by Shetland ponies. Threshold Section 3. Pomona on a chariot richly decorated with fruits of the field and garden, surrounded by gardeners and peasant girls. Children cutting savor kraut. Section 4. Village music. Vintners with their implements and utensils. A decorated chariot with winepress. A mammoth grape carried by boys. Section 5 Flora in a tastefully decorated chariot under a canopy of tlowers, surrounded by boys and girls. Gardeners and children and flowers. Section 6. Shepherds and shephemesses leading sheep for the sheep race. A shepherd's cart. All who participated in the procession where in appropriate costume, and were greeted with loud and continuous applause.