BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 159, 29 June 1895, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

+ " Up to Dick" weather— bright and crisp. Bain falling Christchurch way this morn* ing. Musioal social at the W.C.T.U. Booms to-night. Pleaa&nt gathering. Give jour tongm more holiday than your bands or your eyes, says a Turkish proverb. 1 " The land and its produots ought to be as common to men as are the eun, clouds, winds, elaep, stars, and moon."— St. Cyprian. Cecil Augastuj Viator Horttzzi de Cor* 1 tando Von Bliramberg, (" ye go la on.l little fishes" whit a name 1) 6ohoolaia9te*, io ?gain aekiog for an inquiry into bis grievances against tin Wanganui Board of Education. Ladies and others who are m the habit of ; attending auoiion sales or plioes where people congregate m numbers would do , well to be on their guard against pickpockets.— Dunedin paper. In Italy thirty persons out of 10,000 die by the assassin's knife. It is stated that 32,000 varieties of goods are manufactured from wool. la 1869 there wore m London only 500 miles of underground wires, whereas there are now 13,000 miles. There is a New York woman who is but forty years old, and has been married eight times during that period. The man who is no one's enemy but his own has a relemlcas foe. When tootbaohe comes m at the door philosophy flies out at the window. Do not drift with the stream, swim with it. It oosts from £3 to £i a week to keep a horse at Ooolgardie. The detective police of London are now weariDg " silent boots" and have effeated many arrests for burglary. Recently m Great Britain a coroner's jury brought m a verdiot on a man who was hanged of " Death by strangulation by suffocation." A German Btudent wrestling with the English language rendered a text as follows : "The ghost is willing, bat the meat is feeble." At Auckland a boy had been dismissed from school beoause he would not " stay m" as a punishment for "copying" from a fellow eobolar. Maori chief m elaborate European Buit sat down on a live oinder m a Native Land Court the other day. Farther details not to band. Bing off ! Mr Fletober Moult on, one of the finest mathematicians m England, and an intellectual giant generally, was recently blackballed at the Athenamm Club. Intellectual giants at a diEcount. Borne legislators tire of their duties early. One Legislative Councillor was so somnolent during the delivery of the Governor's speeob that he snored audibly. , Some person has sent as a circular referring to a certain brand of tobaooo. If he bad sent us a few pings of the fragrant weed tberfl would have been some sense m it, but we cannot smoke printed circulars. It is calculated that the whole industrial community or powers of production m Great Britain and Ireland— land and labour— earn something like £1,200,000 000 of wealth every year. Teaoher— What part of epeeoh is the wotd 'egg? 1 Boy (hesitatingly)— Noun, sir. Teaoher— ls it masculine, feminine or neuter ? Boy (looking sharp)— Can't aay —till it's hatched. 1 A private of Carbineers of York was tried for leaving his post when on sentry before being relieved, and sentenced to twenty-eight days very bard. A man mmzi Peter MoClaskie got off at Aston (England) with the very light sentence of three months for pouring oarbolio aoid over bis wife. Soene— Unemployed refuge. Two beds , and two oooupante. A sadden unearthly yell. " What's the matter with yer, mate ?" ; " Oh, I'm so glad I've woke up. I had a terrible nightmare." "Aye, what was it?' I dreamed that I was at work." i Curtain. A peculiarly sad inoident ooourred at a fire wbioh broke out at a hotel at La Boohe. A little boy and girl m an outhouse oould not be rescued, notwithstanding their orieß i for help, and were burned to death. The , mother, bearing the fate of her children, fell dead on the spot. An Irishman got out of the carriage at a railway station for refreshments, but unfortunately the bell rang, and the train left ' before he had finished his repast. " Hould on !" oried Pat, as be ran like a madman after the train—" hould on, ye murtherin 1 1 ould stame ingin — ye've got a passenger ! aboard that's left behind ! '