SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3556, 31 December 1881, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

"Be brief, for it la with, words as with ■ sunbeams; the more they urocondensed the deeper they burn."—Soutuky, ~ ■ > t Messrs Curtain and Dowding haveibetn "ffi elected trustees o£ the Archhill Highway Bfcard. The new British Minister to the United . States is bald-headed, and asks lor a suspension of public opinion until the amiable qualities of his wife become knowiii -"Detroit Free Press." The drainage of Pitt-street and Gfeyv street with an 18-indi pipe will shortly be tendered for. 4 D.rDopuytren on his own profession.— •' A medical man passes the first half of bis 11 life in saving his fellows without pay, and ' the second in killing them at exorbitant plices." ; -r ~ ... , One of Fox's martyrs—tbo hen..,,.. Goes against the grain—A wet Reason......Atasto o£ winter—A spooDful of ice cream™'... Custom-made clothes are properly called habits. * • § Tho Jewish synagogues of E|Bt JPrnsdv thirty-four in number, recently held their 1 urst Convention. The Pupal authorities have prohibited tho circulation t>f father Curd's popular tram* lations of the Bible into ItatiaD. ASyracuEemaidcnhanproiuißedtoniarry ■ . five different men. The papers refer to her as a promising society telle." llle late Dean Stanley has loft leßatieß of 14,000 each to certain niunarrisiNadies on . A condition that they shall not become mem« - bers of any religions order, either Protestant *,' or Koman Catholic. v Thee.B. Te Anau will take the children - of the benevolent institutions «n their annual excursion%bout February 16, The safe arrival of the Jackson's Bajr Returning Officers puts an cud' 1 o auy donl)t ffl as to the result of the Hokitika election, I « A Vassar College girl, upon beinj; asked if she hked codfish balls) said Bhe (never attended any. . *■ Lovers should be warned against bring* - H ing their nibuths together. An ,'entire Tennessee family was poisoned by tongue "#«B the other day. . . . .. Tho Christians of all evangelical denomi* V*' nations in the United States have averaged . . 21 cents a year from each member for # oroign missions for,.,the past ten years. \ For home missions the average has been 28 cents. A well-known sctUer named C. E. Martin . ,C has been remanded ou the charge of plural •*■■■ votinyat the rccentParliamenffry elections for Wallace. ,„ NntwithstniidiDf,' tho large, commodious, '' and central pasaeuger station iv Duncdin, itho Government have promised to erects '' Jiew one without delay, Mr George' McLean lately, iv deprecating the clamour of v *.' the Dunedin 4)eople>bout their station, re- j ierrcd to the miserable shed which hat to '! no d% tor a station at ArJcWajidL , '■