BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 155, 25 June 1895, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

A fine drying breezi this morning. A flood was " mighty adjacent," bat the fates were kind. Rain was reported aa falling at moat telegraph Btationa in the colony at 9 a m. Weighty and inexpert ladies shouldn't play at cycling. Australia will be known by-and-by as a great dairy and poultry farm. Where's the political man who doeßn't like bis name going in the papers ? It is in the email hours of the morning, when those who prepare tho daily paper while the world is slumbering are silently bußy, that the soothing and sustaining qualities of the weed are most appreciated. The name of the brand will be inserted when a nice Bample comes to hand. A tramp may be awfully lazy, no doubt, Tet when he's confined in a gaol He'd work like a beaver to dig himself out, With only a tenpenny nail. Sheep-worrying doga don't pay for their keep. At Palmerston North an owner of a worrier was fined £100 through his dawg worrying 150 ewe?, and costs acoording to scale. The detective instinot ia stated to have gone with the advance of suoh aids as pbo« tomioograpby and oithoohromatio photography. " The roof which shelters a tender mother, a fair, pure young Bister, will never fail in volunteers to defend it."— Mrs Mary Lee. The blooka on the Timaru breakwater parapet Bbelf are breaking up rapidly, and there will soon be a good many gaps to fill. The Australasian Guards Band collected over £50 within four dayß at Feilding. Joseph Payne, a dwarf, four feet in height, well known about the streets in Sydney, fell down dead in the bar of a hotel the other night. He was about 35 yearß of age. The price of quinine has gone np in France in anticipation of the quantities whioh it is supposed will be consumed by the French army during their operations in Madagascar. At Eltham the other day a little ohild was nearly poisoned by reaohing a bottle of belladonna and drinking some of it. A little boy of nine at Stratford has lost hia life in consequence of injury received while playing football. A Spanish lady at Barcelona, being jealous of a servant girl, saturated the olothes the girl was wearing as well as her own clothes with spirits, and then applied fire to the dresses. Both were burned to death. Walter Dunlop, a well known humorous olergyman of Sootland, wbb talking to a brother of the oloth, who in a faoetious manner said, • Well, Walter, I believe, after all has been said, that my head could hold two of yours.' • Man* replied Walter, with a smile, 'I never thooht before that your heid was sae empty. 1 The Berlin War Office has determined to furnish artificial teeth gratis to such soldiers as may need them, as they can, of oourse, work better with teeth than without. A recent traveller in Tasmania, from Melbourne, has been fined £25 and costs for taking over a suit of olothes to oblige a Melbourne tailor and bis customer, The suit was also forfeited. Young man : •• Why does Mr Jinks have suoh a hangdog, no- aooount look? la it beoauEe he is in financial trouble ?" Old Man : " Oh, no. It is because he is the father of children of school age, and they have begun to ask him to help them with their arithmetic" Clergyman-" Well, Giles, I'm very pleased to see that my oourse of Bermons has been the means of bringing so many country folks to our church.'^ Countryman—" Aye, indeed, Bur. They were just a-talking o 1 it now at the Black Man." Clergyman— " And what did they say?" Countryman—" They said as 'ow we never knowed wot ein was until youcum'd among «s."