SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3559, 5 January 1882, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

"Be brief, for it is with words as with sunbeams; the moro they nro condonsod tbe deepor they burn."—Southey.

The French dependency, Algiers, has a population of 3,000,000. Eighty buehols of rough rice to the acre is the average yield in Florida. The average production of the Spanish vineyards is set down at 450,000,000 gallons. There \vcro fifty-threo Saturdays last year. Tho body of Win. Kcmpi belonging to the Mary Ann, has been recovered at Mahurangi, Sir A. Oordon is expected to leave Wellington for Fiji, in 11, M, S. Emerald, on the 10th inst. The bush Arcs near Akaroa have done a great deal of damage, Mr Ivcss intends to petition against Mr Mason's election for Wakanui. Five deaths from dysentery occurred in Ashbutton, Canterbury, on Tuesday. Messrs C. Coombcs and Sod, tanners, Dunediu, have called a mcctiug of their creditors. The liabilities arc £48,000, partly secured, and the assets £26,000. Enough shares are subscribed in the Thamcs-Hotorua Itailway to justify the directors in talcing further steps under the Act. At the Supremo Court, Duucdio, Herbert Vincent, a deaf and dumb man, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment on two charges of forgery committed in October. Ho was an old offender. He had been employed in the Public Works Department, and had forged tho name of the head of the department. Wilhelmj's violin is 200 years old, and ho has refused £1,000 for it. "Very tali men," says nn old farmer, "aro not useful in the country. It takes them too long to get down to work." When a gul rejects an offer of marriage she goes through a sleight-of-hand performance. Tho littlo son of Mr Patterson of Ton. eonby, was found by Mr J. H. Smith, horec-shocr and general smith, of MorningBide, Great North Koad, at 7 o'clock in the evening, straying from the Western Springs Waterworks. He took tho child to liiß own house and treated him kindly, restoring him to the distressed parents yesterday. Professor Swing thinks stage kissing is wrong. His views on Sunday-school picnics have njt been given. Tho ugly-looking patent medicine man who puts his picture ou his bottles has a method in his mad egotism, He wishes to make people sick. A case of domestic scandal was under disenssion at a tea-table. "Well, let us thiuk the best we oaD," said an elderly spinster. " Yes," Biiid another, " aud say the worst." CAUSE AND EFFECT. A daraoeol with keroHOno Tolißhtthoflredidhopo; Noxt duy feet first, Bha left the house Id a losowood envelope. Patrick O'Shauehucssy, loasee of tho Waterton Hotel, AshburtoD. and a man named Kcllher, a hotol loafer, have beeu committed for trial for a brutal assault on a man named Clindley, who was tied by them to a cart all nignt. "What is the best attitude for solf-de-fence ?" said a pupil (putting on the gloves) to a well-known pugilist. "Keep a civil tongue in your head," was the significant reply. " IMdgcf," said the mistress to her servant, " put a little uutmeg in the custard this afternoon;" ami Bridget picked out the smalleit nutmeg she could find and threw it in tho. custard, where it was found entire at the evening meal. There hns becu granted to the Cauadian Pacilic Railway a subsidy which may be valued at £50,000,000. A blind girl briskly opcratiug a sewing machine is one of the attractions at the Institute Fair in Boston. .New York City has a foreign trade of nearly £180,000,000, London of £188,500,000,000,000, and Liverpool of £186,000,000.