Scintillations.

Auckland Star, Volume XI, Issue 3196, 19 October 1880, Page 2

Scintillations.

• JJo fcrlof; for, it is with wordi as with nanlwniiiH; tlm more they aro c jndonsod, the deeper thoy burn."—aouTHKY. Tlio l'overty Bay Company has " struck ilc.' 1 Contentment nnd a crust is better than turtle soup and dyspepsia. C. F, Mitchell has pegged oil' twelve moo's ground at To Aroha. Colonel Whitmore has soli out for £50,000, nnd in going home. 'Micro is a kitten at Nelson with four eyes and two mouths. An iron rollir.g mill is among our projected industries. The now wing of the Lunatic Asylum is nearly completed. A brass cabinet ware factory is Jabout to start in Christchurcb. I The nverugc daily receipts at tlio Melbourne Exhibition are X.'ioo ', and on one Saturday £7000 was received.

Mr Adam-, M.H.K., has made £14,000 through a'lucky snecolatiou iv the Golden Floecc Company, West Cnast. The, Whiuigiuiui "Herald". niippriutM "Conservatives" "Bbnsorvativcs,"probably it nieuuH "Ijoue-servativea."

"Mr Froude."—You aro wrong. The dog-days cannot properly bo termed the reign of terrier.

." Gut in a lot of coal," cries an exchange. Don't you do it The proceeding is tery damaging to clothe*.

A boat can sail on a tack and not make a fuss about it, but when a man sails on a tack he—well it is different.

An observing young man down town says the prettier, the lady the longer it takes a policeman to get her across the street.

ltusu and Tiiokctt will row at Paramatta next November. This Triokett Is a brother of the champion.

The Princess of Wales has not in eight ycais materially changed UioHtylo of wearing her hair.'

Two children of Mr Furnie and o Mrs Miller and son were drowned by tho upsetting of a boat at Havelock yesterday. Mr C. Weigbtman will be at the Governor Jlrown Hotel to-night, from 5 to 9, to let dresses for the coming Fancy Dress Ball.

There will bo an entertainment in the Lome-street Hall, on Tuesday next, for the benefit of Mrs. Arnold.

Dr. Lemon, upon whom the premier is thrusting so much responsibility, was a journeyman Carpenter at Oamaru, when tie attracted the favourable notice of Mr, Hall.

Captain Becre'a property—3oo acres and Hour-mill—with 50 acres on tho Hamilton. (.'h.uipo road, was sold iv one lot on Saturday for £2,227.

" Treat woman like a splendid flower," says Bob Ingersoll. "So I do. I have planted mine," says a widower who has buried three wives.

Lieut. Bruee, of the To Awamnta Cavalry Volunteers, won the troop bolt at the firing on Saturday, after first tying with Trooper Munfo.

Grace—" I am going to see Clara to-day. Have you any message f" Charlotte—" I wonder how you can visit that dreadful girl. Givo hormylove."

Somebody has added a nullah to that Melbourne telegram in tho " Beraid," about the coining review. The muster of military, volunteers, blue-jackets and marines will be about 4,000, not 40,000. " Can I give my son a college education at homo ?" asks a fond parent. Certainly. All you want is a baseball "Guide," a racing shell, and a package of cigarettes. Mr C. J, Hill informs ns that he has not withdrawn from tho vocal contest for Mr De lines' Sewing Machines, but was objected to by other competitors on the ground that he is a professional vocalist

That " monster turtle" does duty in our contemporary for the " big gooiobcrry." One of the reporters has been taking his measure and he dwells with the expectant appetite of an apicius on tho number of plates of.soup the "Aldermanic delicacy" will produce.

Mr E. D. Hay garth leaves by the Te Anau. He intends to bring to New Zealand a large Wax-work Show, among which the Kelly Gang and capture™ will be prominent. A Iso, M, Soundry, Mr and Mrs Greer, and the latest sensational and noted characters.

General Bob Toombs was asked by a friend a few days ago whether-Alexander Stephens would be,returned to Congress. "Kcturned f" said Toombs : "Why, me, hisdistrict'll keep him in Congress as long as he lives, and when he dies they'll run jiia executor."

''In what condition was the patriarch, Job, at the end t of .his life ?" , asked a Brookiyii Sunday-school teacher to a quiet looking boy at the foot of the clasp. "Dead," calmly answered the quiet looking boy. From this answer no appeal was taken. -

Daniel Smith, in the employ of Mr C. 'Fry, a settler at Matukann, has been killed by tho fall .of a large branch of a puriri tree ; lie was cuttinor for posts. and.) rails. At an inquest before Mr Angove, coroner, a verdict of "Accidental death." was returned, ''.

" Elizabeth has been enjoying a hugging match "—now, don't misjudge Elizabeth and exclaim, " The brazen thing 1" until we finish the extract—''a buggiug match between a tame bear and one ofbis keepers." Elizabeth, you will observe, is not guilty. The manner in which the paragraph opens is well calculated to deceive.

A ahrowed rascal advertised a' machine that will "add up columns of figures a foot long" in six seconds. He sends a piece of chalk with directions to use it on a barn door or other surface big enough to hold ti^urea a foot long. Sho was a four-year-old blonde, generally quietand tractablp, but mamma had provoked her. " I don't love youany more, mammal" "Very well, dear, you needn't." "Well, I don't love you." "Allrigut, doarie, mamma will try to get along.'1 " Well, Ido love you ; but I don't feel just like it now."