BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 221, 21 September 1895, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

Rain Eucceede m holding off. Temperature at Taupo got op io 66' tbia morning. General Booth is expeoted io arrive m Wellington by the Siruutaka on October Bth. A great demonstration will be held to welcome him. Mr Q. Norton, boat builder, of Wellington, has purchased the ptent of the Oriental Boating Club. That telegram about the earthquake at Honduras is now oontradioted. What ho, there, oableorammer. Chicago's manufactured products for a year are valued at £140,000,000. At a sale m London the other day, £8000 was refused for three Sevres vases. The yearly egg product of America is estimated at £30,000,000 per annum. The eawmill operators of the United States numbeied 77,050 at the tenth oensus. One of the most curious trades extant is that of. a man m Berlin, who exists by breeding rats for vivieeotion purposes. An Amerioan enrgeon claims to have successfully treated a serieß of oases of sunstroke by plaoing the patient m a bath of ice. The men of eoience cay that the way for a man to secure sleep is to think of nothing. But they are wrong. The way to seoure fleep is to think it ib time to get up. Four female highway robbers were ar« rested lately m London. They attacked a married woman, threw her down, and secured her puree, which they discovered by tearing open the front of her dress. " Bridget, have you cracked those nuts for the dessert I want to make ? t " Tie, ma'am, all bat thim big walnuts, an' it'll take stronger jaws than mine to manage thim ; but I got troo with the others all right, ma'am." The girl of the period seems sorrowfully ignorant or ashamed of the good old fashions which made woman truly beautiful and honored, and through her render home what it should be — a happy piece where parents and ohildren, brothers and sisters, learn to love, know, and help one another. Querious : " What did ehe Bay ? " She said she'd file my proposal with all the j others and consider it when Bhe got down ! to it." A clergyman m Pennsylvania, aged 31, haa died of bloodpoieoning, caused by the prick of a girl's hat pin, given m jest by a member of his congregation. The young woman is said to be almost crazy with grief. He : " Her heart is as hard ac glass. I can't make any impression on it." She : " Have you tried a diamond ?" When Theebaw'a favourite wife lay sick unto death, his Majesty offered frantic prayers to his gods, and made extravagant promieea of endowment of the temple; when she died he maßeed his artillery m front of the temple and bombarded it without meroy. So runs the story. Smith. — " I say, just look how those confounded hens of yours have soratohel up my sead3." Brown — "And a jolly good thing for your seeds, I can tell you. They'd never come up at all if they weren't soratohed up 1" In a London County Court the other day a plaintiff sued for the return ofhalf-a--guinea paid by him for a new pair of shoes. Ha complained that the boots wera a bad fit ; but as be bad worn them out of dcors the judge said he must keep them, aodgave judgment for the shoemaker. " Dignity, my son, is a very proper sort of thing; but don't put on too much of it, or you may be taken for a footman." ' " One kiss," says a cautious suitor, '• is worth a dozen love-letters, and it cannot be introduced m a breach of promise euit." Briggs— •• Say, old man, what are ycu doing for that cold?" Grigga— '• Cough« ing." The general rule for all diets Ehould be an abundance of sweet fruits, fresb or dried, green vegetables— those growing above the ground reoeiving tbe preference— a email proportion of the oereals, brown bread, milk, rggs, and a little meat. Th 3 world's morality illu3trated. A South Australian publican ktely ' sacked' a barmaid because, m her joy at winning £5 on the races, ehe got drunk. The old Deuteoher m ' explaining* the matter, said : — ' I m-'nda it nat zo mooch ov a girl gits drunk on vine and help to make de poys shout it ; but yen she gets drunk on my own visk-y, den I dinks it vas disgraoeful. 1 Preaobing m the Abbey on a reoent Sunday afternoon, Canon Wilberforoa told a good Btory of the celebrated Welch preaoher, Christmas Evans, who dared publicly to express his thankfulness for Jenny Lind's beautiful singing. A member of his congregation, a straitlaoed Gaevinist, Btanding on the steps of tbe pulpit, asked the preaoher whether a man dying at one of Jenny Linda concerts would go to heaven. " Sir," replied Mr Evans, " a obrißtiao will go to Heaven wherever he dies, but a fool remains a fool even on the pulpit step 3." Even the sober Abbey congregation (says the Westminster Gazette) could hardly stifle its enjoyment of this repartee.