BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 185, 30 July 1895, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

» Hbot fall of enow in baok country yeaterday. The meroury in Blenheim at 9 a.m. was as low aa 38-. Bealy was 27\ There was snow thia morning at Lyttel* ton, Chriatchurch, Port Chalmers, Danedin, Queens town, Invercargill, Bnd Bluff. Babbiters on the Clarence runs country had to struggle through four feet of snow the other day. Complaints are made of the loose language used by boys in the Pioton streets. The heavy frosts ha9 completely rained the early potatoes planted by Tauranga gardeners. " I consider that life would be a failure without the women-"— E. M, Smith. Perth, in Western Außtralia, is suffering from a brick famine, the supply having been completely exhausted owing to the exttn* sive nature of building operations. A one-eyed horse was sold oat of the Featherston pound recently for half-a---orown. A thing worth doing is worth doing well. A thing worth advertising is worth advertising well. A large consignment of imported " cognac' ' from Sydney has been seized at Melbourne as unfit for human consumption. There is always a band of welcome ready to be offered to a strange umbrella. & teacher was explaining to a little girl how the trees developed their foliage in spring time. " Ah, yes ! ' said the wee mm, " I understand ; they keep their summet olothea in tbeir trunks." A " chip from the old block" sometimes destroys the symmetry of the family tree. The Editor of the Mt Ida Chronicle intends to keep that publication, so he says, in the front rank of " Truthful and Liberal journals." Ahem ! Btop that cough. It is rumored (says the Pahiatua Herald) that a gentleman in Wood ville not unknown in connection with football in the bush has been served with a writ for £500 for alleged breach of promise. A ton of diamonds is worth about seven million pounds. Kindly send U3 along half-a-ton. We haven't accommodation for any more. German eohoolboya study harder and play less than those of any other nation. The German boys don't know what a lot of fun they lose, 11 Well, Tommy, what are you goiog toba when you grow up ?" — "Ise going toba « soldier."—" But you may get killed. '— 11 Who by ?"— "Oh, the enemy !"— " Then I'll be the enemy." It is .said that in India the people bave no idea of time, but that they bave learned that trains do not wait for anyone, so that great crowds arn at the stations hour* before the time for a train to start. A Bill has been laid before tho Board of Chicago aldermen, aeking for a city or din. ance forbidding women from weating bloomer dress or leggings in the streets, and imposing a tine upon any wornoo whoue skirts are more than a certain number of inches from the ground. The ordinanoe ha9 been drawn up by the Women's Reform sooieties. Unfortunate.— Sympathetic Sister : " Say Gogy, what's the matter?" Gogy : " 80-o-o Aunty Ellen ain't coming after all." Sympa* thetic Siater: "Well, never mind; what's the good of crying?" Gogy: "I've had me □eok washed on purpose, and now it's all waßted." At a beauty factory in Bt. Louis repairs and alterations can be made in the human figure to ohanga it from plain to the seraphic, cherubimio and glorious fa&hion in whioh Adam and Eve, the first and moat perfect specimens of human mould, were shaped. How babies are announoed in South Africa!— The following quaint advertise ment is from a South African paper : — ••Birth.— lt was on Thursday, at !>.30 a.m., the Ith April, 1895, that in the passive retirement of C. M. de Tarnowsby's family, at Bonne Terre Pieaix, & lovely babe nam:d Eliaoin Milton Lubomir has drawn his first breath of life on this earthly world. All generous Christian friends, kindly pray our Heavenly Father to ptoteot this pony livino epring through time and for eternity 1"