TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 169, 17 July 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Westerly gale. "Carmen" to-night. Board of Education met to-day. Onehunga water supply ia now clean. Auckland Harbour Board meb this after* noon. Immense destruction of American railway property. . Result of the pupil teachers' examinabioi. pnblisbed to-day. Plate-glass was first made in 1688, at St_ Picardy, France. Two-thirds of the male population of the world use tobacco. Threo thousand anarchists arrested ia Italy in three days. Mias Montogue plays the title role in •■Carmen" to-night. Mr E. Farley plays tho Toreador Co " Carmen " to-night. Misa Cicoly Stauuton as Frasquita ia '• Carmen " to-night. Light-haired people, as a rule, live longef than the dark haired. It is rare indeed to find a blue-eyed peraon who ia colour-blind. Thomas A. Edison is the patentee oi over six hundred inventions. Physicians' carriages have the right ol way in the streets of Berlin. Among the membera of the German Parliament are six cigar-makera. There has been no change in blacksmith's tools for three hundred yeara. It is asserted that the oldest building in the world is the Tower of London. Sawdust, com pressed into blocks, is used for building purposes in Germany. In the United States there are 673,643 Freemaaonß and 647,471 Oddfellowa. Thirty-one Statea in America have adopted the Australian ballot system. 5 Disagreement between the Sugar Company and the Government over taxation. • A home for inebriates in Denver (U.S.A.) is disrespectfully termed '* a jag asylum." Rosa Bonheur has refused £12,000 for ««The Threshing Floor," her new painting. Ib ia estimated thab only one couple in 11,500 live to celebrate their golden wedding. A clergyman, in Gardiner, Mo. (U.S.A.), permitß hia congregation to select the texts for hia sermons. The death penalty haa jusb beon resumed in Switzerland. For twenty-fivo yoars ib had been abolished. The manufacture of cigarettes haa in* creat-ed in America in thirteen years from 238,276,817 to 2,877,792,440. The Christchurch hro brigade have re« solved to ask the Association to bold its next demonstration in thab town. Charlea Brennan, cabinetmaker, died very snddently at his residence ab Morning* ton (Obago). He waa 75 yeara of age. A swarm of locusts six miles wide re* cently darkened Graham's Town, Capa Town, Africa. They were flying seaward. Woman's age is a sacred thing. In ths Old Testament the age of only one woman ia recorded, that of Sara, Abraham's wife. Women in Burma. propOae to men whom bhey seek in marriage, and when bhey tire of them a divorce can be had for the ask* ing. | Aba public entertainment in Paria a . young man was hypnotized. Two dayelapsed before be waa restored to consciousness. The richest man in Germany is Herr Krupp, the greab gun-maker. He pays [ taxes on an annual income of 6,000,000 marks. i Pupils in the schools of Japan are taken i oub rabbib hunting ono day in ever*/ , autumn. How would the Auckland boya likeib? Unlets an Austrian gains bhe consent of ' hia wife, be cannob geb a passport ba journey beyond the frontier of his own country. Donations of books have been made to the Auckland University College Library by Dr. Bakewell, Profeesor Brown, and Messrs Stone Brothers. Paper quilts are becoming popular in Europe. They are cheap and warm. Tbey are composed of sheets of perforated white paper sewn together. Life at the age of 106 proved to be dull and uninteresting to Alexander Bulan, a peasant, ot Tekaterinoslaw, Russia, so ha closed hig career by suicide. There was an excellent muster ab Wesley Hall laat evening, whon Mr Frith meb tha performers who are preparing to givo Mr Isitb a recopbion on the 24bb. The Governmenb have thoroughly restored bhe graves of the sailors and soldiers buried ab Rangiriri, on bbc Waikato, and have renovated the cemetery. Tobacco is a alow poison. So think tha relatives of Thomas Nugent, of Boston, who died there recently, of excessive smoking, ab tbe ripe old age of 95. A London street preacher, recently arrested, proved to be the pal of pickpockets* He drew a crowd and prayed, while bia accomplices preyed upon bhe crowd. A meebing of representatives from varioua Otago School Commibtees decided it waa inadvisable to hold any unibed demonstration in connection with Arbor Day. This is from a Yankee paper :—" Five hundred people lost their lives by a recent* eruption of tbe volcana Ngauruhoe in the Sandwich Islands."—Bub Ngauruhoe ia in New Zealand. "The firsb lesson in the arb of moneygetting," says Andrew Carnegie, " ia the knowledge that it isn't the man who doea the work who makes the money, but tha man who gets the other men to do ib." An "old maid's insurance company" prospers in Denmark. Females are allowed to join ib ab any age from 13 to 25. If they remain unmarried ab the age of 40, they become entitled to a regular weekly allowance. Since the larger paddle steamers have ceased plying on the Lower Waikato River, the river ia eaid to be gradually silting up, and sand banks are forming along its courae near Rangiriri and vicinity, while the water from the swamps and lakes adjoining; is dammed back. The Poneke Club, Wellington, has practically won the Senior Football Championship, as the game to play cannob affect the result. Thia the third successive year thoy have won the championship, and gives them a record of seven "wins during the past nine seaaone. Ib ia reported in Wellington (saya tha " Otago Daily Timea ") thab Mr Henry Mackenzie, the general manager of tha Colonial Bank, is likely to be appointed general manager of tho Bank of New Ze.land. On making inquiries of Mr Mackenzie concerning tbe rumour, he informed us thab he kn_w uothiagabo*.^ M ■* matter. The Tre_.aur_r of the Women. Home, Parnell, bogs to acknowledge ihe iollowing sums receivod in Jun,.: — Mra D. L. Murdoch, £1; Mrs John Fairburn, 10? j F.K., 10a ; Mra Paton, 10.1: J.R., 5 a . Mra Bale-, ss; Meear_ Macky, Login, and Steen, 10s 6d ; Mr and Mra Dunning, il • Mra Menary, ss; Friend, ss: Mrs Roberta, 2s 6d * Mrs Steele, 2s bd ; Miss Y\ ann, ?& bd. You cannob geb anythiog better for your money, so don't be deceived. Ask for "Reliable" Tea, and take no other. (Advt,) 3.

During our great eale men's clothing and mercery, tweeds, hats, and tailoring, are marked ab clearing prices.—Smith and Caughey,—(Advb.)