SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3353, 26 April 1881, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

"Bo brlof; for It la with words as with sunbeams : tlio rnoro they areoondons.dthe deeper tlioy burn."—SouTHisr.

Bald men aro the ooolcst-hoaded men in the world.

Caa a man intoxicated by music be said to be air-tight?

Mrs Hampson, the evangelist, is drawing large houses in Duucdin.

Every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unlit for the married stutc.

St. Sepulchre's congregation expect to get into their new church early in June,

The purest joy we can experience iv one we love is to see that person a source of happiness to others.

Serious riots havo been caused in Moscow by the students.

The gradient on the wiro tramway, Duucdin, whero the accident occurred, is one in iL

Miss Clara Stephenson is playing at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, where Mr Kogh took a benefit lately.

Poiisouby ratepayers meet in the lin.ll tonight in obedience to a requisition relative to the Question of accounts.

The work of repairing the dangerous pait of the Onehuuga load at Kpsom has been finished.

The police in Ireland havo arrested the monj who threatened the lives of Lord Orunmore aud Mr Browno, a Mayo landlord. Trickott has accepted Boyd's challongo to row over tho Thames chiunpiou course iv midsummer.

Moody aud Sankey visit England in September next, and, after holding mootings proceed to Ireland on a revival tour.

Mr John Edwards, the favorito tenor, has received a favorable oiler from Mr Martin Simonsen of Simonson'a Koyal Euglish and Italian Opera Company. Attempts have been made to destroy the Chinch of Madrid by throwing bombshells into it wiiilo the congregation was worshippine. When Jemima wont to school she wan linked why the noun bueholor was singular 1 " Beciuino," nho replied, " it is ao very einfijular that they don't get married." Mr T. Maclfarliuo in in Waikato settling compcnsaliou claims for land taken for railway purposes. A verdict for plaintiff was again givon in tlw case Mm Middleton v. Hank of Now Zoalaud, to- heard at New Plymouth.

The verdict at Tim aril ou Mr H. L. Nathan, found dead iv bed, was suicide by chloroform while temporarily insane. Mcs«h L. J. Bagnall aud W. Wilkinson have been appoiuted members of the Licensing Courts for llauraki.

A Boa ton pupor somewhat sarcastically remarks—' The polico of New York are being vuccinated. But what's tho use of it? Tlioy never catch anything." The polico of Wolliugton aro in earnest about plumping out breakers of licensing laws. Having got ouc mini lined £50 yesterday tlioy havo taken action again auaiußt Charles LowU Stewart, of Te Aro Club, who, about a fortnight ago, was lined £20 au a similar charge. Chinese merchants in Syduoy anticipate an inlliix of 50,000 Cinnamon thoro during the present year. They complain that the new arrivals bring uo money, aud are ti heavy burden on the Chinese residents.

The Grafton Itoad School Committed last night resolved to take no action re introduction of the stump saving bank system, and concurred in the proposals of the Board re appointment of teachers,

Mr George Kelly, of Hamilton, has lost a mare worth some £35, wbich was running on Mr Douglun' run at Titmnucrc, uud fell into a deep drum.

Butter wlten selling at Is 3d in Auckland, fetched Is Gd at Cambridge, though thousands of cattle graze on the surrounding lands. They want a cheese and butter factory there.

Mr Sininis has liuiaheil a iplendid bridge ucrosstho Kawakawa river, thug completing the lir*l mile of tho Kawakawa railway extension.

Mr G. S. Noul, of Cambridge, thip, year obtained 43 bunches of grapes, weighing liOlbs,, off v Black Hamburg viuc kiowii from a cutting planted three yearn itgo.

Mr J. Mioehan, M. U.K., paid a visit to Kewi at Punui. Kowi shewed him over hi.s now house at Kihikihi, aud specially appropriated an apartment, which whs " tapued" for Mr Sheehau's exclusive use.

The barquo Glimpse has loaded at the Bay of Islands with coal for Honolulu. Thoro is no reason why our mines should not compcto for a share of the Galiforuian trade.

It is of no uso trying to explain to children that there is a diflerence between canary-birds and women. A lady who wars visiting at a neighbour's wns asked to King, and raid that sho ronlly could not do so iv any circumstances, when a little girl wont up to her and said, " is you a-mnultiug ?"

Syllogism.—A sailor is not a sailor when he is aboard ; a sailor i» not a sailor when he in «->horc ; but he must be cither ashore or aboard ; therefore a sailor in not a sailor.

Mrs Plaindame, after looking long and thoughtfully at a plaster cast of Shakespeare, remarked : " Poor man 1 How pale he was I He couldn't have been well when it was takeu."

An old cottier named William Pcckham at Tawa Flat near Wellington, has been drownoil by his cart capsizing over an cmbankmenr, turning him into tho Kaiwarra stream.

Curnow. schoolmastor, who stopped the polico train when tho Kelly cang had torn up tho rail', receirol? £550 of the reward.

Tho hauhaus of Matlmra, near fluntloy, have destroyed some fencing and trees on land bought by Mr Hill. There was a disturbance about this land some time ago.

Cabby: " I want sixpence more, yer honour." Fare, escorting very fit youn Indy : " How do you explain that T" Cabby p " Well, two miles is a shillin', aud then tbc: miss is as good as a mile."

Neglect no woman merely because she is plain-looking ; for beauty is to woman but what saltpetre is to beef—it gives It an appearance, but imparts to it no relish.

Some members of the Chrietchurch drainage Board who were discontented with Mr C. Napier Moll holding the office of eugineorto the Harbour Board moved to sover the connection with the drainage Board but the motion was lost.

The line from Gray's Elegy : " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day," was thus oxplained to his class by* a Victorian State school teacher :—" A curfew is a bird with a long bill and tail, and many's the one I've shot in the bogs of Ireland I" UnbelioTers will find this in tho education report.