TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 156, 5 July 1887, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

" Row " in the Garden of Eden. Defeat of the great Tactician. " J. A.C." not as- good as his masters, the electors. You mean not in lung power and brutali tactics generally. Exactly ; the meeting was a disgrace to the city. . J Glad to find you don't think that thai ' scoundrels " belong to Eden ! Of course they don't; bub a fe%v of them' ought to be in Mount Eden. i The "Mount Eden barber" has spent nearly twelve years in gaol. ~ t " Shoot folly as she flies." That's what' Ji\)ley does, yet ib is far from being suicide, -i New Masonic Hall opened at Otahuhu ; this afternoon. The Victoria Hall, Eden Terrace, is:] nearly ready for the opening " social" on.; -cviday evening next. .: It is said that a baker has invented a , new kind of yeast, which makes bread so • light that lib. of it weighs only Boz. Many a man who imagines that he is a■ big electric light finds out to his sorrow that ho is only a little tallow up. '] Te Kooti, with 000 followers, is camped in the neighbourhood of Opotiki. ! ( Thomson: "Suppose a man should call you a liar, what tvould you do?" Jones (hesitatingly) : " What sized man ?" Secular and sacred concert at the V.M.C.A. Rooms to-night. f, Philosophy of the Understanding.— 1 Nothing tries the soul of a man: more than' a shoe-peg. Suggested inscription for the Macandrew - monument. "He gave a glass of water to J. A. Connell!" Foreign Mission meeting afc the Pifcfc- • street Wesleyan Church to-night. If the Tonga "persecutions" were to be discussed there would be a largo atten-; dance; but the collection might be disap- ' pointing. ' v Pi'ay. ho.v comes Love? It comes unsought, unseat. '■ .■" Pra7howpo.w Love? That was not Love that went. France is threatening to go to war for the restoration of her share in die control of' Egypt, _ She will pause before she faces an Anglo-. Italian "combination. Why, Italy has a permanent fighting force of 592,(557 men, and mobile and territorial militias which bring up the available strength for defensive purposes to a total of 2,387,432 men. A fashionable London doctor has startled folks by asserting that tight-lacing is a public benefit. He takes the unassailable;ground that it causes the fools among women to die young. There was ice half an inch thick afa Thames yesterday morning. YVater-pipea were frozen up. At Masterton, John McDermott ha 3 been fined £f>o for having an unlicensed whisky! still in his possession. Also LSO for having spirits in his possession on which no duty had been paid; alternative, a year in gaol. The manager of the National P»ahk at Duncdin has received advice that the directors propose to pay a dividend at the rate of five per cent, for the half year; and carry forward L-1,300. " \ There is to be a big scramble for the Par--nell scat at the general election now near au hand. There's an old proverb that says the ; lightning never strikes twice in the same! place. Probably for the reason that the.' place is not there when it strikes the secondtime. . •*■•* Air Aitken Connell'was very outspoken., last night in his declaration that religion.' and politics should go together. , When he-' got to the bottom of anything "he found God there." \ Yes; but when he went on ty> describe the House of Representatives, gob to ; ; the bottom of it, he declared they were " a' set of d rascals!" \ The poor fund of the Women's Chiistian Temperance Union has become exhausted,through the many calls upon it. There are also signs that the Benevolent Society' is on its last legs. That was to be expected ! If people pay a poor rate, they make it an excuse for stopping private charity. You will notice that when a splinter j runs into a boy's foot it is always a few ! seconds before school. Mr Dunn, of the Market Hotel, has recovered the sum of LlO2 which he lost ten days ago. His pocket book had been picked up in the street by two people who had since then been to Bay of Islands, and on seeing fie ■ advertisement at once restored the property and received the reward. : Onehunga waterworks started yesterday ; polling on the method of raising the loan. takes place to-morrow.