BRIEF MENTION.

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BRIEF MENTION.

About £10,800, in specie, went down in the steamer Catterthun. Li the world there are 51,000 breweries nearly 26,000 of them beiog in Germany. The Premier's emrnded Licensing Bill il to provide if a prohibited person puts his no. ; e inside a licensed bouse " unless fof the purpoees of bu iaess or a3 a lodger," he is liable to pay £10. It is not gonerally known that M. Pasieui is an " unlicensed praotitioner," and can* not oven pat a lanoet ioto a man's arm. He has to keep a surgeon to do this foe him in order to comply with the law. A new Blow, wearing, subdued, yet brightly distinct smile has ooraa into fashion with American ladies. It i a eaid to have got out to Auckland, and may be expeoted South in due course. ♦*»»«*«» Mr Punch's definition of the New Woman r-Thry dress like men, they talk like men, they live like men, they don't lik« men. A curious cure for oolds is desoribed by • correspondent of • Science Siftings. 1 He writes :— «• The moment I feel & cold oomlug on. or have a chilly feeling, I lie down before a lire, with my face as dose to it ae I can, and inflate my lunga with the bet air for a minute or two, and repeat it several times, holding in the inhaled air a ibort time, then gradually exhaling it. Sinoa adopting this method I have never bad • cold settle in the throat or longs,"