BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 150, 19 June 1895, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

Thb town olook has an "impediment" m the strike. It hasn't the face to oontinue as of yore. A yellow retriever pup with a Pioton tiaket, No. 82, has taken up itß quarters with the Boobs Boad prisoners, m Nelson. There will be a "sound of revelry" m Ewart's Hall to-night. Colonel Fox to looal sohool oadet : " What would you do if you saw the enemy approaobing ?" Oadet : " I would ran and tell Mr Sturrook (the captain of the oorps)." Another.— Colonel Fox to Volunteer So-and-eo of the Blenheim Biflea:— "What would you do if you saw the enemy approaohing?" Volunteer: '• Make it pretty hot for 'em, sir 1" Napier oyclists must look to their laurels, for aeveial young ladies are practising assiduously m the gloaming, doubtless with visions of surprise record-breaking. The daughter of a Melbourne oyßtersaloon keeper, who is an accomplished BiDger, is known aa the " Oyster Patti." The Benevolent Sooietieß of Hobart and Launoeston have scouted the Premier's proposal to supply poor ohildren with £d breakfast?. Over 270 men on June 2nd partook of the Sunday morning free breakfast provided by the Sydney City Night Befuge. Anthrax has broken out among dairy cattle at Caulfield, Viotoria, and several animals have died from (he disease. Professor: "What's the difference between idealism and realism ?" Girton Girl : " The marriage ceremony." The funeral of the late Mrs Tapley (Miss Violet Varley), the well known aotress, which took place at Melbourne on June sth, was oonduoted by the Bey Dr Strong at the Australian Charon, which was crowded to overflowing. About 2600 half-starved Bheep ate blue bueh at Wiloannia, and died Boon afterwards. You become a good whist player when you can make your own blunders appear to be those of your partner. Physioians sore long time he bore, Their doses were m vain. He died when he could live no more, Bat he'll get up Again. —Old epitaph. Glasgow, like Paris and London, haß begun to eat horseflesh. During the last fortnight of Maroh forty horses were slaughtered m the western oily for human food. Mr William Stuart, an Elgin distiller, has bequeathed his entire estate toDr Macdonald the Boman Catholic Bißhcp of Aberdeen. The will ib written on a sheet of notepaper, and is dated 6th February 1894. A man was run over by a train m Sydney lately, and was immediately arrested for being drunk and disorderly and injuring the rolling Btock of the railway department, and fined 10s. He did not pay the fine, as it went towards buying him a coffin. A Miss Mary Brown agreed to make a successful parachute descent from a height of 5000 ft. at Glasgow lately, being the first woman to accomplish the feat m Sootland. Thirty thousand persons paid for the " privilege" of witnessing it. Widow Nolan (hotly): "That wor a foine eettin' of eggs ye sould me ! The half of them wor oraoked 1" Mr Hennesey : —"Ye should have watohed thim. They wor from my game hens and must have got to foightin' when ye worn't lookin'." "Amongst the spectators at {he football matoh between Eesendon and Melbourne on Saturday were two portly nitizens who as the game progressed became more wildly exoited. ' Mod 1* said one, ' It's a grawn game ; it's i braw battle. The awf u' excitement o' it Jamie. Why, it fair stirs me bluid 1' ' Aye 1 Wallie, 1 said the other with enthusiasm, ' the rush o' it and the ding o' it 1 Mon, for real doonreoht exercise and exoitement there's nee thin' beats it but oor am bonnie game o' bowls 1' "