TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4524, 28 November 1884, Page 2

TABLE TALK.

The Star Is moving towards the cast. Healing exhibition in Lome-street Hall 1 to-night. 1 , Now South Wales Parliament waa pro--1 rogued yesterday. Written Courtship is Beet,—lt takes but 1 one letter to make Mary marry. Hon. Jamei Mcßain has been elected 1 President of tho Victorian Legislative Council. 1 Between SO and 00 ladies aro members of ' School Beards in England and Scotland. 1 Titokowaru has crossed the Waingon- ' goro—a vory interesting piece of news I There are 900,000 more men in the Uuited . States than there are women. Dr. Hughes, the Freethinker, lectured at - Wellington last night on "Darwin and Evolution." Comely girls of marriageable age are sold . in Yokohama for £3 5s each. The Governor lost night opened a big i fancy fair at Dunedin, in aid of the - Anglican churches. ' Tho now scale of reduced charges for the i Lyttelton Dock will' corao into force on ' December 5. i Twenty of the Armed Constabulary at i Kihikihi are ordered to road work at Hiku; ranjri and Kawhia. The bald hoods of Auckland aro using i hair restoratives, so that they may be 1 caressed by tho local female barber. A silver star marks the spot in the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad depot where Garfield fell when shot down by Uuiteau. i Lyttelton Barbour Board are agitating for a new lifa-boat to bo placed at. Akaroa, near which the.Clyde was wrecked. ! "Tho hand thirt rocks tho cradle ia the hand that moves the world." Perhaps that's so ; but it Can't stone a hen out of the gardon with any overshadowing success. It is stated that out of 1,271 maniacs whose previous history was investigated, 649 wore traceable to drink. The latest Wellington dodge ia to get a big building erected for "the Industrial Exhibition,and then to convert it into a railway station. Cremation is gaining favour in Prance, and furnaces are to be established in several of the cemeteries of Paris. There were 5,500 people, despite cold and showery weather, at Dunedin Agricultural Show yesterday. George Smith, of the London Merry Rovers' Bicycle Club.lately made the fastest run yet—loo miles in 7 hours 11 minutes. Mr G. Cowie, goneral manager of tho Colonial Bonk at Dunedin, has. got six months' leave of absence to visit Europe. A young man sent 12 stamps to an advertiser to learn "how to make money fast," and was advised in reply to glue & fivepound note to the bottom of his trunk. Cambridge Cheese Factory will soon be ready, to start operations. Batskin fur and ratskin slippers are a late London freak. Only the skin about tho haunches is used, the remainder being too thin. The banks will be closed on Monday next, which is to be observed as St. Andrew's Day. , Five hundred devout Catholics prayed at the shrine of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey, London, on the 14th ins^, Ohio, mi ~ Circus recently drew £5,200 in Napier in five days, and yet the oolony Is said to be suffering from " a wave of depression." Mr Kochfort and party started laying off the first section of the trunk line from Te Awamutu on Wednesday. He will be joined by Messrs Hursthouse and Holmes shortly. " What building is that ?" asked a stranger of a boy, pointing to the Wellesleystreet School. "That," said thgboy, ".wte that's a tannery,", and bo 'feelingly' rubbed ttie .cap of his pants as he passed on. The French have 274 warships, manned by 47,600 men, and carrying 1,500 guns j England has 288 ships, manned by 53,000 men, and carrying 1,942 guns. Dr. Crichton-Browno's papor on " Education and the Nervous System" was Ordered to be printed as a Parliamentary paper by- the Houso of Commons, but Messrs Cassell and Co., who own the copyright, objected, and tho order had to be discharged. Parent (angiijly) —" hayo neon in the Watery' You weye _jshingS" Son—"Yes, m4'aqi ; J was in t-be water, but I got a boy out w'np might Imp beep drowned." Parent-''lndeed, wh.9 was he?" Son— "Myself." "Tho Latp Drowning Cftgo "Is not a fit subject for jest, yet readers i»ight think it was so regarded if wp published the com* plete test of a " poem''we have received on the subject, of whioh tho annexed is a sample i— " By ouetora used, he sallied forth, with gun, small dog, and tow'l; For that his dog, he knew its worth, . And so he left it there to guard, and as it were to howL" The poot goes on to remark, " Well might it" hOwl;" probably it had a premonition that it was to be embalmed in verse, and |