MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1333, 7 December 1883, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

♦ — The special correspondent of the * ¥ '*2 a i 6 n ter t0 that P»P«. was witness of the following incident, which he belief c* to correetlj represent the feelings of America towards Britain: — "An Engh»h Cheaps Jack, engaged m auctooneering his wares in Oau Francisco wreet, made a nasty allusion, in connection with Her Majesty** name r when an American stopped out and said « Look here Btranger, you may talk about your Queen as a Queen just as you have a mind to ; but as a woman we believe her to be agood woman, and good women have to- be alluded to respectfully here ; now, don't you forget it' Cheap- Jack repeated his offensive allusion, when our American friend sailed in and gave the vendor of brummagem wares a severe beating with his fists, amid the approving applause of the crowd. " Lord Gran ville has been reading ''ST lecture to the Foreign Office attacheson words and the their uses. Therehave been many national dispute* between the French and English in consequence of the misinterpretation of words. There was one rather serious one as to the word compromis, which implies underhand bargaining, and is no equivalent for " compromise," which must be rendered as arrangement or transaction. Another English attache made a memorable mistranslation of equivoque into " equivooation," which caused a week's trouble between the two countries. The latest Yankee advertising device is described as follows :— " A shapely girl appeared at a fifth-story window m Boston. Her long hair was loose, and her gown was, white, so that to the uncritical eye she Jooked like a person right from bed, but she wore shoes and stockings, as was subsequently observed and there were numerous touches of a careful toilet. However she fairly represented a girl hastily aroused from sleep by ii r e. Her movements were rapid, too, and her manner wild. She flung open the sash and clirabedout on the sill. The square fronting the building was almost instantly crowded. With a shrill cry she dropped himself. A thrill of horror ran through the multitude. But the girl was not dashed to pieces on the payment. She descended with great but harmless celerity into the arras of a man, who began at once to expatiate upon the merits of his device which consisted of a single wire attached to a kind of harness, and pulled out from a box by the weight of the person hitched to it. The girl was liked, but nobody cared anything about the apparatus, and its ingenious exhibitor did not make ia single sale, the people disappearing as soon as she did. Wells' "rough on corns."— Ask for Wells' " Rough on Corns." Quick relief, comple c, permanent cure Corns, warts, bunions. Moses, Moss- & Co., Sydney, General Agents. Why do Hop Bitters cure so much ? Because they give good digestion, rich blood aud healthy action of all the organs. Bead