BRIEF ENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 40, 17 February 1902, Page 2

BRIEF ENTION.

Heavy sea running in the Straits.

Cape Campbell 88% highest tempera* ture afc 9 a.m.

We spend £1,900,000 a year on foreign gloves.

The Arctic whale never emigrates south. It could not live in the warm waters of the southern seas.

The Orange Biver, which forms the northern boundary of Cape Colony, is 1200 miles long.

The velocity of a bullet from the LeeMetford is very nearly half a mile in a second.

Mr Morgan, the Government attendant at the Priest's baths, is responsible for the statement that these waters will cure baldness.

Three years ago, when he came to Rotorua, his head was destitute ot hair.

Since then, morning, noon and night, he has laved the offending spot with the ecclesiastical liquid, and now he has a medium capillary growth.

A dozen Dunedin factory girls went to a seaside resort at New Year. They roomed together in a bunch, and 6utside their door they hung a large sien. 44 The Bachelors' Haul."

A Blenheim lass who is fearfully absent-minded; on telling her mother she had been out alone, looked foolish, when reminded that she took out an umbrella and brought home a walkingstick.

Quite a little indignation meetiDg was held in the vicinity of the Picton Post Office on Saturday evening, when the recepients of letters opened their correspondence in public.

There was a great flourishing of sheets of type-written paper, and % "great feast of languages." The innocent looking documents conveyed an intimation from the rulers of the Borough to the effect that the ratepayers would no longer be allowed to use the water supply for more than one hour in the evening, except for domestic purposes.

And so hereafter amateur horticulturists, derated water manufacturers, sausage makers, and "sich," may giver up their "biz" and retire on their laurels.

The late Mr John Gotch, of Gordon and Gotch, the well known publishing; firm, has left real estate in Victoria valued at £55,859, and personal afe £27,847.

- A Malvern (Vie.) policeman prosecuted but did not succeed in getting a conviction for "insulting language" against a woman who said that his billet was too easy, and that he wanted shaking up!

A Modest Request.—" Well," said Mrs Wiffles to the tramp, "I suppose you want something to eat this morning?" "No, kind lady," replied the wayfarer ; " I called to sco if you had a cast-off bicycle to give a deserving man."

A prominent public body official at Nelson on a recent Sunday called upon a church congregation to sing a hymn over again, as their rendering of the music had not pleased him. His employers have dispensed with his services, owing to various peculiarities of behavior.

Colorado and lowa have both restored the death penalty for murder. There are now only four States o£ America in which the death penalty is not inflicted—Wisconsin, Michigan, Maine, and Rhode Island.

The following notice appeared recently in the shop window of a seaside resort on the East Anglian coast, much beloved by the day-tripper from London :—" A good tea, sixpence; a regular gorge, ninepence."

Flossie: " Mamma, I want some water to christen my doll." Mamma,: "No, dear, it is wrong, you know.** Flossie: " Well then I want some wax to waxinate her. She's old enough now to have something done to her."

One young man in the Forty-mile Bush disposed of his farm, his stock, his all, and went to Masterton to join the Ninth Contingent for South Africa. He found, to his disgust, that he was a stone too heavy, and could not bo accepted.

The Premier kissing the Blarney Stone at Nelson: " While looking on the pageant I fancy myself back in St. James Street London, taking' part, as I was on that day, in the diamond Jubilee celebrations of our saintly Queen Victoria."

Little Madge was sitting on the floor, when the sun shone in her face. "Go 'wayd! go 'wayd!" she cried, striking out at it. " You move, dear, and it won't trouble you," said her mother. " I shan't! I dot here first!" was th& injured response.

At the close of a meeting ©? homestead owners at Wentworth>New South Wales, to consider the provisions of the new Land Bill, the following resolution was passed:—

" That the effigy of William Patrick Crick, Minister of Lands, be tarred, feathered, and burnt, for depriving the rising generation of their birthright, by bringing forward such provisions." The motion was duly put into effect, before a large number of people.

A Sunday school teacher in Cartilage, 111., has a class of little girls, and it is her custom to tell them each Sunday of one little incident that has happened in the week, and request the children to quote a verse in Scripture to illustrate the story. In this v*ay she hopes to impress the usefulness of Biblical knowledge upon ths little ones.

One Sunday she told ho* class of » cruel boy who would catch. oats and cub off their tails. " No*\ can any little girl tell me of an appropriate verse?" she asked. There was a pause for a few moments,, when one little girl arose and in a solemn voice said: '• Whatsoever God has joined together let no man put asunder."