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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10657, 10 July 1897, Page 6

' The insurgents, 1 reported the scout, 'have a dynamite gun.' 'Strange!' mnsed General Weylor — ' strange that I never thought of taking that gun.' He immediately wrote a despatch, in which he captured the dynamite gun. Stranger: 'I understand that they lynched a man here yesterday. What had ho done?' Col. Pepper, of Kentucky : ' Done snh 1 What had he done ? Why, snh, ho oame heah to open a branch agency for a mineral watah company. Thßt's what ho did.' ' He's a very enterprising young man,' remarked the elderly geutleman ; very pushing and alert He belongs to the rising generation.' 'I shouldn't have dreamed it,' replied Mjsb Cayenne. ! ' Indeed P ' ' No, From his manners I should not have hesitated about concluding that the rising generation bolonged to him.' A little girl who wa* in the habit of using the word ' guess,' fvas reproved by her teacher. ' Don't say ' gueß9,' Mary ; say • presume.' " Just then a playmate oame up, and, feeling Mary's ooat, said : "Myma Is going to ask your ma for the pattern of your oloak," "My ma ain't got any pattern," answered Mary ; " she out it by presume." Curried Fish. — Ingredients — lib of fish ; one apple or a stick of rhubarb ; two ounces of fat or butter ; two onions ; one pint of water or fish liquor ; one tablespoonful of curry powder; one tablespoonful of flour; salt and pepper; a teaepoonf al of lemon juice or vinegar ; out up the onion, apple, or rhubarb into < small pieces, and put them into a sauoep&n with the butter or fat, and let them fry till they aro brown. Then Etir the carry powder and flour to them. Add the ealt and pepper, and stir in gradually one pint of fish liquor. Let this all boil up and simmer gently for half an hour. Just at the last atir in the . lemon juice or vinegar. Then strain it, returning it to the saucepan with one pound of fish cut up into nice pieces to ( get hot through. If you have no oold fißb, but oook some on purpose to ourry, boll it in one pint of water, and vie this water to make the ourry of. Serve the curry In a border of boiled rioe. The Japanese are as courteous as they are theatrical and artistic. Their courtesy and their art are very closely allied. Their keen sense of courtesy, and their unflagging practice of it, has, I believe, as muoh to do with the quietness and fitness of their funerals as has their fino artistic Instinot. They are as a nation even prooder and more studious, I think, of their oourtosy than of their artistic excellence. ' Cry ; It will do you good ! ' I said once to a poor Japanese woman, who, orouchlng beside her dying husband was controlling herself with an effort that would, I feared, make her ill- She laid her little, slim, brown finger upon her trembling, red lip and shook her head, then whispered : 'It might disturb him.' ' Cry ; it will do you good 1 ' I said the next day when the man was dead, and she seemed almost prostrate with grief and over-enforced self-con-trol. 'It would be most rudo to make o, hideous noise before tho saored dead,' came tho soft reply.