BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXV, Issue 169, 24 July 1901, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

A.'sfkll of wintry weather.

.? A certain sect in E ussia considers hair sinful, and baldness a sign of sanctity.

Vienna has a bicycling female monkey at the Zoological Gardens in the Prater.

In Borneo there grows an insoeteating flower which lias the smell of carrion.

Much sympathy is expressed in England at the death of Mrs Kruger.

She is said to have exerted a womanly influence on the side of moderation.

The ox-President is said to be inconsolable at the death of his wife ; but ho Btiit has somewhere about £3,000,000 annexed in South Africa.

' A gentleman who persisted in walking about the streets in a delapidated pair of boots during the recent snow is mow undergoing treatment in the Dunedin hospital for frost bite.

A few days ago the Dnnedin S.M. had before him twenty claims for overdue calls in dredging companies. The claims totalled up to £872 3s Gd.

At the winter show in Dunedin, held ■while the DuVe was there and under his patronage, His Highness saw a very large cheese. He was looking at it earnestly, when someone remarked that being such a monster it ought to bo called "The Duke." ' ■ •^No," remarked the Duke, "being such a monster it ought to be christened after Mr Seddon." And the people thought and thought. The death is announced of Sew Hoy, the well-known Chinese merchant of Dunedin. Sew, who was generally liked in Dunedin, was a mining man of great experience, and his ventures with a dredge at Arthur's Point paved the way for latter day dredging. He is said to have laid out £15,000 in developing the industry of hydraulic elevating at Nokomai, where water is brought in a distance of twenty miles along mountain sides that seem inaccessible. . .

He always supported public charities, and acted the part of a good citizen, says a Dunedin correspondent.

They say it was very funny, when the Volunteers were arriving in Christchurch, to note one company which hailed from Westland. In that company it took five men to carry one officer's luggage, and as the man with the wire mattress came along ihere was a perfect roar and cries of " Where's the family ?"

Feed is abundant on the East Coast (N. 1.) runs, and stock is reported to be in prime condition.

For unconscious humor the following " takes the cake." It was received by a sheep-farmer in Waipawa from a Napier firm :—" Dear Sir,—Wo have much pleasured) in informing you that your wool shipped by the resulted in a loss of £36 5s 4d."

The Royal route on the day^ of the procession in honor of th<} King's coronation will be ten miles long.

Lambing on several farms has com menced in the Wairarapa district.

A large line of potatoes was sold at Balclutba this week at £6 per ton.

" 'Tis very fortunate," remarked Mr Grady, wisely, " thot hay be not as hivy as coal." "Forwhoy,Pat?" "Sure, a ton ay the sthuff would weigh so much that a poor man couldn't afford to kape a cow."

For using obscene language in Wanganui, Mr Kettle, S.M., lined a man £5 and costs (£1 125.)

It is said that serious irregularities hare been discovered in the affairs of a local body near Dannevirke.

The prices of cattle in the Adelaide market were very high on July 9. "Four prime bullocks hold for £105 10s, an average of £2G 7s Cd each.

She is a winsomo young M.D.;

He has a strange sensation. The symptoms show, tis plain to see,

Aortic inflammation. He calls her in. " Oh, doctor, I'm

One of your ailing pupils; What shall I take—oh, say in time,

How many grains or scruples?" She notes his symptoms— 'tis enough (A blush her charm quadruples); "Take me," she murmurs, " quan turn suf., And never mind the scruples."

Memmott, receiving a handicap of 2,500, had no difficulty in defeating John Roberts in a billiard match of 7000 up. Roberts scored 5246.

Miss Primrose: "Don't you ever give your dog any exercise?" Miss Hollyhock {fondling a fafc pug dog) : *' Of course ; I feed him with chocolates every few minutes just to make him wag his tail."

It is said of a certain learned man tiiat he spent half his lifetime acquiring fluency in ten different languages, and then went and married a wife who never gave him a chance to get a word in edgeways.

- At Perth, on the Ist instant, a man named George Thornton was prosecuted for ill-treating his three-year old son by shutting him in an outhouse at night in a nude state. He was convicted of " culpable negligence," and fined 40s and 24 s costs.

"How do you like the character of St. Paul?" asked a parson of his landlady one day during a conversation. *' Ah," replied the landlady, "he was a good, clever old soul, I know, for lie once said, you know, we must eat what is set before us, and ask no questions for conscience sake. I always thought I should like him for a boarder.