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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Issue 115, 15 February 1895, Page 4

She : 'Oh horrors !' lie : ' What is j it darling ?' She: ' I forgot all about poor pussy I left in the house alone, ' and we're off for a week. She'l! j starve.' He: 'Ch, I remembered her. 1 left a can of condensed milk J on the kitchen table, with a cardino ] opener beside it.' Mr Lapidara (to old Jason Plnnket, 1 shewing him a fine emerald) : ' 1 Tenture you've never seen a stone showing so rich a green as that.' Mr Flanket (examining the gem critically): ' Tain't nothin' side o' old ( Hez Stone's eon Jake, as sets up with ( my Malindy.' 'Ton are looking bad, Bromley.' ! 'Yes. Been up every n'glit for a week with the baby.' ' Tou wished him at the bottom of the Dead Sea jaapy a time, I suspect ? ' Why, no. T ain't so brutal as that. But I was fery thankful he wasn't twins.' Frog farms are being started iu -xinerica to supply the Now York market. Hone Hebe, M.H.1?., going to publish a hook of Maori legends. Of 481 typhoid cases in Sydney last year, one in every eight was fatal. An octopus, 8 feet across, was caught the other day in Nelson Harbour. First instalment of the Bank of Now Zealand caU has been well met in Auckland. Bishop .7. It. Seiwyn (late oi Melanesia) has been offered the Seo of Adelaide. Carl in peach trees is said to ho caused by an absence of potash in tho ■oil, which may bo supplied by a plentiful supply of wood ashes. The Queen's Drive at Wellington, connecting Island Bay and Kilbirnieis now complete. The cost has been about £'3,300. From the report of a missionary to Africa: "My congregation refuse to give up cannibalism, but I have succeeded so far in improving their tastes that they now eat with knives iafid forks." Scientists have long been aware of the fact, that a persou can actually be poisoned by his own breath. This happens at a time of great exertion, when wirbondtoxidc is formed more rapidly than the lungs can exhnle it. In Algiers not long ago two noted runners fell dead the moment they reached the goal, and their deaths were attributed to this rapid formation of T>nisQiious breath. , \toms returns prove bqyond contract Nolson, Moato and Co'r fine tea Jf appreciated by tho majority, for Qtne numerous firms in every pa't Colonies that are copying '.hem, the ver is as large as ever, and t'ae demand . great that tticy sell more Indian, Ceyon id Wealed tow than the lvbcle of tho and dealers put together in last irtff nf the; Colony.