BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 120, 23 May 1903, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

Empire Day observed on Monday next. Keen frosts throughout the colony this morning.

Fire Brigade Social on next Wednesday.

Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature bo your teacher. —Wordsworth.

Tho King and Qneen have opened the Edward the Seventh Bridge at Kcw, built at a cost of a million pounds.

The London Times states that the promoters of the Antarctio Expedition have appealed to the Government for a grant of £40,000 to succour the expedition.

A rather pompous would-be member of Parliament rose on one occasion to make an extended speech at an electioneering meeting. He began :— " Mr Chairman, I have lived long enough "

" Hear, hear," yelled a member of the audience, and such a storm of laughter broke out that the aspirant for Parliamentary honors was forced to resume his seat.

Some days ago a farmer was seen in the Win ton district to be cutting wheat and stacking it as it came from the binder.

A child, aged three years, named Carmody, died at Cowra Hospital, N.S.W., from tfco c-ftccts of eating uncooked Ecushrootns. Lite is too short for mean anxieties, Soul! Thou must work, though blindfolded. —Chas. Kingsley. A love-letter of Robert Burns was sold in London a few days ago for £10. Hidden batteries of guns are being installed at the Forth Bridge, Scotland. Rates in Poplar, one of the poorest boroughs in London, lave now reached 10s in the pound. At Southeby £98 was paid for a letter by Savonarola, the famous Flo--1 rentine Dominican friar. He: "My views on bringing up a family—-" She: "Never mind your views ; I'll bricg up the family—you go and bring up the coal." The newest sVy-serapor in New York ii the EtDa building of thirty storeys, and 455 feet high from the pavement. This beats all records. All jealousy Must still be strangled in its birth; or time Will soon conspire to make it strong enough To overcome the truth. —Davenant. Tfc is a pifcy we do not give more heed <o the still small voice, but it must be admitted that Conscience is far from being a delightful conversationalist. A Wintry Jest.—Native: " Weallus has a West wind 'era." Stranger: "Bufc the wind is now right from the East." Native: "Oh! that's the West wind comin' back, you know." Stranger: "0—h!" A young musical student is bringing an action against a concert company in Paris for refusing to admib him to a concert after having bought a ticket. The defence is that he was one of a band who systematically hissed the pieces of a certain composer. The following words " inmemoriam" of Sir Hector Macdonald appear in the London Times:—

Leave him alone, The death forgotten, and the truth unknown.

Enough to know, Whate'er he feared, he never feared a foe,

Believe the best, 0! English hearts, and leave him to his rest.

" I do not know a single Scotch regiment with which I have not served," said Lord Roberts recently.

Many Sydney waitresses are reported to work ninety-hours a week for ten shillings. It is now proposed to organise these workers.

Aunt (ending an exciting story)And when she had said this the bad fairy disappeared ia a cloud of smoke and fUtue—" Niece (eagerly): "I know, auntie—in an automobile I"

A charwoman charged at Westminster with disorderly conduct, said that she was only shouting " Floreat Mona," and the constable thought it was obscene language.

Mr Seddoii made his maiden speech in the Houso on October 2nd, 1879, ' Mr Speaker," ho began, "I rise for the first timo to say a few words." The •' few words" filled nineteen coltmiHS of Hansard, and occupied au hour and threcquarters in delivery.

Mistress : " I don't want you to have so much company. You have more callers in a day than I have in a \v.?ek." Domestic: "Well, nium, perhaps if you'd try to bo a littlo more agmnb'.e you'd have as many friends as I have,"

YOU WANT IT"—So do we. You want your washiug to look we 11 wo like to see it so; wo wish, you wish, and everybody wishes, aud wished it all along, that Empire Company's Royal Blue had been discovered onga^Oi