BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 137, 4 June 1895, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

BIdJNHBIK 13 a Whitligigging, There was a watery ring round the moon last night. Thanks for the warning, oh mystio Qaeen of the Heavens, A movement is on foot for a night shelter for Anokland. Larrikinism ia said to be rather prevalent m Chiistohnroh. The aaoient bine gam recently out down on (he Nelson Fort Road waß planted m the year 1851 by Mr John Tinline. An enthusiastic editor wrote—" The battle ia now opened." But, alas, the oompositor spelt " battle " with an " o," and bia readerß oay they Buspected it all along. The Bteem merry-go round is a whale on dogs. It slaughtered seventeen m Nelson, and it is said that at eaoh death the organ went on playing the same as ever. The poor innocent canine walks up to the etrange affair, sniffs at it, and is duly hurled into dramatic eternity. Not 80 many dogs will be killed m Blenheim as NelsoD, because the oanine race is more wide-awake here than m Sleepy Hollow. There are olub lavatories m Ohristohurob, says the Bohemian m the Press, where 1 11 Gentlemen" are requested not to throw the towels on the floor. In the end the oorset makers will reap a harvest out of the discussion on the questtion of " Should women wear stays ?" A J.P. who makes a composition with bis creditors is debarred from sitting on the Benob. «« The «• new woman" at Qalaßhiels has made a new departure. A orowd oolleoted m that town lately to watoh a woman who orept along the eloping roof of a house, and then swept one of the ohimneyß. A publio man who has studied publio affairs m New Zealand for some time, sums up the politics of the Wellington Evening Poßt aa " Govern meat by dyspepsia." 11 Now, Profsssor, have a whisky this time ? Don't keep on swilling that beastly beer." •• Aoh 1 No, mine vrient, too moooh viaky iss too mooch ; but too mooeb peer iss chost rifjht !" The first oburoh ereoted by the seoedera from the Free Gburoh on aooount of the Declaratory Act has just been put up m Glendale, Skye. It is of wood and iron, will accommodate 450 worshippers, and has COBt £355. Sheriff Campbell Smith, m deciding upon an assault case, said he did not believe the plea of the accused that be was drunk at the time, "except with Highland rage, whioh wbb probably as strong an intozioant aB anything else." T. Bax Bwung the Indian clubs twelve hours and a half ; Lawcon wielded them for 25 hours. But Lawton used only 21b olub?, whereas Bax lifted 21b 2oz eaoh time ; and it is estimated that, allowing 60 revolutions to the minute (whioh number wsb far below his average), Bax m 25 hours would have lifted five tons and part of another more than Lawton.

Boose.— At the New Zealand Clothing Factory you can get ladies leather 2 strap gaodale (com 4s W upwards.