BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 230, 2 October 1902, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

Heavy southerly weather in the Straits. The river fleet unable to leave Wellington.

A tightness of money in the American market.

The dying session dies hard. An all-night sitting in the Korerorium.

A dishonest man suspects every honest man he encounters.

A speaking countenance is moat expressive when the mouth is shut. Anything you get for nothing usually is not worth that much.

A little knowledge is dangerous, but the bulk of it wouldn't hurt a fly.

Enormous was a fairly impressive word until historical novels began to aucceed.

Never .put off till to-morrow the creditor who will waib till nest week.

Visitors to the British Museum last year numbered 718,614, of whom 48,895 were admitted on Sundays.

Among the patients in the fever ward at the Wellington Hospital just now is one of the children of the Medical Superintendent of the institution (Dr Ewart).

Dr Hector, assistant Medical Officer at the Wellington Hospital, who has ' been suffering from an attack o£ measles, is now convalescent* •" ,

The definition of residence under the Land Act, 1892, provoked from the Chief Justice in Wellington the remark that it was " like many another statute *—no one could make head or tail of it." ..

Charles Thwaines, the foreman of Harper's mills, Port Melbourne, was caught in some belting last week, and torn to pieces, his head, feet, and hands being severed.

In order to forecast the weather with a reasonable degree of accuracy all you have to do is to predict anything you dOn't expect.

Lady: " Poor little chap! You say my dog bit you ? Well, here is a sixpence." Boy: "Say, missis, let him bite me twice more, and call it a shilling."

A recent police and military carnival in Melbourne in aid of the unemployed realised the sum of £1400 after all expenses had been paid.

It is probable that at the next census the number of poultry in the colony will be ascertained as well as. those of other classes of farm stock.

Ping: "How did you come out on that stock deal last week?" Pong: ' • Lost £500.'' Ping : " But I thought you said a friend had given you a pointer ?'' Pong: "So I thought—but it turned out to be a disappointer."

Eight hundred tons of snails were sold in Paris during 1901.

A Chinese official in Shanghai recently entertained a number of foreign officials to a dinner of 126 courses.

Cyclists who ride with a paint-pot in front of them are, according to a decision of Mr Beetham, S.M., to be placed in the category of public nuisances.

" Thank you, my little man," said Miss Passay to the nice little boy who had given up his seat in the car, "and have you been taught to always give your seat to ladies." " No'm," replied the bright boy, " only to old ladies."

An English Court has decided that a passenger cannot travel by an excursion train, and then pay the excess fare to a station beyond. The Judge held that an excursionist is not entitled to continue his journey beyond the station to which the ticket related without paying the full ordinary fare for the whole journey.

There was no lack of comic relief in the various incidents in the vicinity of the Abbey. :

One of the peeresses, exhausted by long waiting for her carriage, sat down in despair on the ground in the court" yard with her velvet robes folded under her as a cushion, while her husband sought the erring coachman attired in his velvet and miniver.

Another peer rushed, coronet in hand, down the streets calling for a hansom, receiving an impromptu ovation from the crowd which disconcerted him a little.

The awkward question of the tip was solved by a big New Englander from the State of Maine who was dining in a London restaurant one evening recently.

Having paid his bill, he was informed by the waiter that what he had paid did " not include the waiter."

"Wai," said the stranger, "I ate no waiter, did I?" And as he looked quite ready to do so on any further provocation the subject was allowed to drop.

When a Chinaman consults a doctor he expects the prescribed medicine to take effect at once. Consequently many of the medical practitioners give their patients for a first dose some redhot mixture, such as tincture of cayenne, which makes the invalids feel as if a torchlight procession was coursing down their throats.

Absent-minded beggars! " Metropolitan Police.—Found, after Coronation ceremony, in Westminster Abbey, on 9th instant, a number of articles, including a valuable parasol, a hair ornament, set precious stones, a few fans, < cocked hats, shawls, operaglasses, and handkerchiefs. Apply, Cannon, N.W. Police Station, Westminster, S.W."

Medicine is engaged upon an endless combat with endless foes. One disease is banished from our midst, hydra-like another dread disorder rises in its place. Today it seems as though, while sanitation and bacteriology were defeating the enemies which preyed upon lung and alimentary canal, the ranks of disease are to be recruited from foes whose stress falls chiefly upon the brain and upon the spinal cord.—Lancet.

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