Scintillations.

Auckland Star, Volume XI, Issue 3161, 6 September 1880, Page 2

Scintillations.

'•Bo brief; for, it ia with -v>-ds a3 with sunbeams; tho more tb»yaroco.. .o-iaod, tho deeper thoy burn."—houTUKY.

There is a fever for weekly papers in the colony juit now. Christchurch has given birlh to a new one. Price 3d. Snnkcy asks, "What shall tho harvest bo J" '1 lie practical farmer .refers him to the caterpillar and gives it up. lt is shown that it takes talent to get into a hammock without at tho same time guttius; out of it ou the other side. Hippocampus is to make tho rounds of Waikato this season. A lady was one of the largest winners at the recent Derby nud ranks high among tho chief patrons and good judges of tho turf. "If you fool like sneezing," says an English.phyiician, " throw yourself Hat ou your back." Tho remedy is very simple but lacking in dignity. Mr Basting's prospect for tho Walkaia scat, rendered vacant by the death of Mr Ireland, appears to bo very fair. He received n vote of confidence at Tapauui. It is hard to tell ripe cherries from green ones in tho dark.—"Detroit Free Press." If lh»y havo been eaten iv large quantities, a little light, more or less, makes no difference. "Death from tho effectof excessive brandydrinking on a diseased brain " was the verdict given by aJChristchurch jury on Saturday, at an inquest on Lewis Nallart. "Bo&ndu" thinks he detects in Mr Simon's picture at Garlick and Cronwoll's tho familiar linaments of Hogarth's " Te Mnladc Imaginaire." Brown (with nn eyo to economy) : "I will wear tho new hat, then, and leave my old ono to bo douo up."—" Shopman : " Dono up I About dono up already, isn't it, sir!"— Fun.

Did Dr Tanner cat tho sponge or the towel , is tho question over which New York doctors have been fijthtiug.

" Built Upon the Bluffs " is the title of a recently-issued novel. This lugging of four flushos into literature i 3 becoming too common.

A sufferer sympathetically remarks that the man who^cau livo on himself, liko Dr. Tanner, needs no rich relations. Tho population of California is expected to tot up 862,780 this census, a gain of .302,533 in the last ten years. Pocket-handkerchief dresses nro common iv England. Thoy are garments to weep over.

Tho Queen is said to havo given up her box at tho Haymarket Theatre hecau-e the manager increased tho rent, Her Majesty is proverbiallyV-'Conomical. " I think, dear, tho dow has commenced falling," ho said in his softest accents. " Yes," »he yawned, " I've beon hoping to hear a-dieu for nonio timo." Ho did not cull the next evening.

" How admirable aro thy works, O Nature 1" exclaims an exchange, adding : "An ordinary woman's waist is thirty inches around ; an ordinary man's arm is about thirty inches long." Through observing a statement In the Stak that there was an opening for >- brewery in Whangarei, a gentleman has taken a twenty-one years' lease of Mrs Potbury's properly for tho purpose of supplying tho want. They have queer ideas of New Zoaland in tho Uuitcd States. One paper says: Tho pretty women of New Zoaland arc described as great talkers, and rub noses instead of kissing. This is too bad.

A Maori fell over a cliff at Pakawata, near Nolsod, last Tuesday, and was killed. He had been pig-hunting, and a boar threw his dog ovor the precipice. In tho excitement of the chase the Maori also stepped too close to tho cliff aud went over also.

Elder Sorenson, tho Mormon missionary, often meets with troublesome times. Pelting by boys is an every day occurrence, and at N ewmarket yesterday" he had a very stormy meeting. Polygamous doctrines evidently do not go down, bat tho Elder lirmiy believes ho is being persecuted for the Lord's sako.

Tho Belgian Government breaks diplomatic relations with tho Vatican by publishing a confidential document from His Holiness, who, whilo outwardly advising the Belgian Bishops to submit lo tho new educational laws, urged them not the less secretly to continuo their hostility. The Waikato Land Association have finally arranged all differences with the Kirikiriroa Itoad Board relative to the road across the Piako Swamp. The Board contribute £75 and tho Association give land for a road a mile and a half through tho estate, mako tho approach ss, and pay all legal expenses. General Grant is not a rich man. His income is said to bo under £2,000 a year, and his foreign tour cott him £5,000, which would have seriously diminished tho ! General's capital only that his son, who is a mining *,peculator in New York, mado a lucky stroke, which turned his father in a timely £3,000. It is whispered about that at a little dinner givou by Couucillor Aicken at the Auckland Club to his brother Councillors laat week. Councillor Offer pettishly kept his seat when the health of the Town Clerk was proposed. This was churlish, Tho Mayor and Councillor Goldie did the toasts with water infcolourcd glasses, producing an optical delusion which might cause scandal ia_i_a_________ Lodr7 3 _ {ai iilia____