BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXII, Issue 87, 14 April 1897, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

♦ Fi.e weather throughout the colony this morning. Temperature on tha rise again. Moßt people are going to observe the Easter holidays from Good Friday to the Tuesday following. A white-haired man named Thomas Carr was found the other night sleeping between two graves m the Wellington cemetery. The man wclb m a finny condition, and had been dtickiog heavily. Ho was at one ticce a well-known and respeoted resident. Colonel Waki field, writing to England from Port Niok 26th February, 1811, said that thirty eoldiata sent there from Bay of Islands had luea withdrawn to Auckland, much to the satisfaction of the eellloip, to whom their drunken and disorderly conduct was a constant annoyance. In the oity of Brussels there is a olqck which ia wound up by the wind, and never by human hands. It cost Mr A. E. Pease £1429 19j 7d to win Cleveland, and Colonel hopner £1389 0j 8i to lose it, " What I Told My Wife" is the title of a new book. It ia almost needless to saj nis notion. " My definition of Protection is feeding a dog with its tail."— Mr Bobsor, of Tasmania, at the Federation Convention. A Oore man haß been blue-gumming tbe codlin moth, A Northern publican fined £2 for selling I'quorß to a boy under thirteen. Tbe evil that men do lives after them, The good is cf; interred with their bones. At Bribb&ne, the other night, Mary Arnold reoeived fatal injuries by falling out of bed. It 18 charaoleristio of many a woman that she will walk by a dead dog m too street wiih tearß m her eyeß and thiee stuffed wrens on ter bat. "1h.3 Prtmier of New Zealand would earn more respect m other countries if he were occasionally accurate m his facts."— Sydney Morning Herald. An experienced farmer asserts that if one-halt of the fruit of a heavily-laden tree is removed by picking, tha remainder will be of better quality. The produot will also be as many bushels as though all of the fruit had remained on the tree, Wi Pere wents ths Queen to send out tha Lord High Executioner to cut off tho heada of all who objeot to Bending Home tho Natives and the military. Urn. A useful charity, oallid the London Spectacle Mission, provides Epeotaoles for needlewomen and other deserving personßdependent upon their eyesight for a living, Last year 726 applicants were provided with speotaolee. A papier maohe trunk is ono of the latest ideas. It is taid to be praotioally cdeßtruotible. In Worcester tho glcvamaking trade is largely, if not entirely, dependent on femile labor, In the oity alone nearly 25,000 women ate employed by the various fl-ms. A return of pauperism m England and Wales for November, 1896, gives lha total number of paupers at the end of that period as 725,906. Ihe common belief that fine white bread contains lees nutriment thtffi ooarEe brown bread is a mistake. So soya M. Girard, ihe eminent Parisian chemist. Too Hon J. M'KeDzie referred gracefully to the Beveral littlo wars during the Record Rei;D, and it is said when doing co he was looking.bard at Mr Fish's teat, Grace Graham, who aohieved notoriety at tbe time of the Great Barrier murder, ten years ego, by voyaging to the Australian coact with Pcnn and Csffery, was Sued at Auckland for drunkenness. An efcent » minded Melbourne man dropped bis offering into tbe plate when the collection was taken up and couldn't make out what all the girls were giggling at. He looked again at the plate. His contribution was a "conversation lolly" with " will you marry me ?" m staring red letters on it. He reaohed for his bat and fcilently stole away. In the Colorado desert tbey have rain Etorms during which not a tingle drop of water touches the earth. The rain can be eeen falling from the clouds high above the desert, but when the water reaches the strata of high, dry air beneath the clouds it is entirely abeorbed brfore falling half tbe distance to tbe ground. A fine of 300dol imposed on tbe engineer belonging to the Russian man-o'-war Kurik, for trespassing on tho fortifications at Hongkong, bus been remitted by the Government, which considered that tbe man acted innocently, Tho Yellow River is styled tho " Sorrow of China." During tbe last century it bis changed its course 22 timep, and new fl >ws into tbe sea through a mouth 300 miles distant from that of 100 years ago. Anti-federal Sentiment m the Federation Convention,— Mr Lyne : "New South Wales legally owns the bed of the Murray, and pould prevent Viotoria taking a drop cf water from the river." Mr Sinaon Fraser : "It rises m Vio'.oria, and according to domooratio ideas the fountain head settles everything." (Langhtei)