BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 142, 19 June 1903, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

Keen frosts throughout the colony. Dig deep and let the soil have the benefit of the frost.

Get your gardens ready for the beautiful Springtime.

A child in the valley could not be made sick the other day on copious doses of salt and mustard. A visit to Havelock, however, worked the oracle, and saved its life! Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.—-Marcus Aurehus. Thursday was the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo—lßbh June, 1815. Advice has been received at Sydney of the death of Mr Thomas Hall, one of the original owners of the Mount Morgan mine. At the Flemington tCourt, 'Melbourne, Grace Barland wa3 fined £2 for calling an engine-driver engaged during the strike " a blackleg." On dit, that a local. baker intends going in for a motor service for the delivery of his bread. Five and three-quarter inches of rain fell last week in the Thames Valley, a record for forty-five years. Serious floods are reported in Essex. News has been received that the Eight Hon. A. J. Balfour's property at Winnipeg, Manitoba, has been burnt. The damage amounts to 80,000dols (£16,000). Owing to the nuisance caused by pigs straying on the roads, the Eketahuna County Council has instructed its ranger to shoot them down at sight. Mrs Mary M'Donald, one of the earliest settlers in Nelson, whoarrived in the ship Larkins in 1849, died last week. Strongest minds Are often those of whom the noisy world Hears least. —Wordsworth. After yawning without interruption for three days, Mrs William Henry Jenner, o£ Oahkosb, Wisconsin, died recently. She suffered from an obscure lesion of the brain, which produced the laryngeal spasms.

Beryl: Do the Smythes live within their income ? Sibyl: They don't live within it, yet they couldn't live without it.

The New Zealand Dairy Union's new faotory at Eketahuna is said by experts to be the most up-to date factory in the colony. The cost of same was about £6000.

The New Act Again!— Careful Publican to chimney sweep): "'Ere, I can't Eerve you! Go and waah yourself ; I can't see your face! 'Ow am I to know as yer not on the Black List?'

According to the Brisbane Worker, trades unions have during the' past 25 years spent on strikes and lock-outs the sum of £648,000, while in benefits —sick and funeral allowances, ont-of work pay, etc. — they disbursed £4,250,000.

She: I know some couples quarrel a good deal at first, but get along pretty well later on. He:- Oh, yes. Some people take matrimony like rheumatism —they get so accustomed to it that they don't complain much. The Dnke of Devonshire has in his possession a copy of Claude Lorrain's •'Book of Truth," the rare book in Europe. It is an heirloom in the family, and the duke's father on one occasion refused an offer of £20,000 for it.

Most of the mutton-birding parties that have be^n out in Southland have now returned to their homes, and report a very successful season, the birds being plentiful and in excellent condition. -

Heroic deeds of toil are to be done, And lofty palms of peace are to be won; Life may be followed by a fame that

rings With nobler music than the battle sings.; —Gerald Massey.

The pickling of eggs when they are plentiful and cheap in tha market appears to be a growing industry in Taranaki (says the Herald). It is reported that one farmer pickled no less than 1100 dozen, which he is now selling at Is Cd a dozen. The denizens of his poultry yard are a mixed lot, but brown Leghorns predominate.

A policeman of Philadelphia was seized with a sudden fit of sneezing, and while quickly drawing his handkerchief out of his pocket also accidentally pulled out his revolver, which fell to the ground and exploded, causing a bullet to enter his leg.

Girls in Norway must know how to sew, knit, and bake before their guardians will permit them to have lovers. Some of them are so eager to acquire these useful accomplishments that they are taught them before they can read and write.

Cause for G lee.—Drummer:" Everybody seems unusually merry and smiling to day. What is going on ?" Landlord Pettyville Tavsrn: "Oh, a life insurance agent is suing a dentist over in the courthouse; and nobody gives a dura which of 'em gats stuck."

■" His bands were too big for picking pockets," was the defence of a prisoner before the Salford (England) magistrate, who thought the man could get all the more on that account, but the man thought not, and was discharged.

A hybrid plant, which at the roots is putting forth potatoes ar.d above Kronn d well-developed tomatoes, is now in the office of Attorney-General Douglas at St. Paul, Minnesota. It was produced at the State experimental station by drafting a tomato vine to a potato plant. - __