BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 52, 2 March 1906, Page 4

BRIEF MENTION.

AjiliiE will travel round the world <while tfe# truth is putting; en its socks. -Before plnckiog a Tbwl dijp for a moment in boiling water,;., This makes the plucking muoh easier. "r

Aii^young man who aboab to be tttajjrled was very jx&pLnß^'atjd while asking for iafo.-maJion* as to how he musb act, pu.s the question : " I* it kis tomary bo cuss the bride ?"

To revive a faded carpet, sweep thoroughly, then wipe over with a clean c oth wreu*g out ofcwater to which half e-tea-poonful of ammonia has bean added. This,will clean acid brighten iC wonderfully.

Many of as want a God with a keen ear for our prajers and a dulleye for our practices.

During the year 1905, 2293 children atten^ag elemeetary schools in Nottiagba^^ere tftughfc the art of swimtniog. About 150 sc cured-the certificate for proficiency in life saving methods, presented by tv c Royal Lifesaving Society.

; The valuation for the borough of ?. Ashbartoa for the current year amounts l% £26,186; an increase of £1102 on the last year's valuatioa, and £2145 on the year before ibatv During the past yea? 27 new buiidiegs have been added to the roll.

Talking of loDg Sco'cb place-names, there are some in New Zealand wh'ch can hold their own for size and beauty. TaroafcauhakatmgiLangakoauau is close to Por^ngahau, in Hawke's Bay, and meaning of ib U " the rar.wj co the sound of the flute oa one brow of tha -b? lV ***" something like that.

The quiebne s at repartee of Mr Choate (late American Ambassador in England) is illustrated by the following :-Daring a week-end at an English country house his neighbour at breakfast one morning char cad to be a pretty American, wbo had come to misfortune in trying to manipulate her egg in the E glish fashion. With face full of dismay she turned to hioi : •• Oh, Mr Choate, what shall I do ? I've dropped an egg ! " " Cackle, madame, cackle," answered the Ambassador.

A London shareholder, speaking at annual meeting of the National Bank, said, •' You cannot buy a foot; of land at Paloierston North uader £100. It is ono of the Jargest centres ia New Zealand, and there is ro National Bank thare. I was therein 1866, wben bbere were only two or three bouses. The? 3is now a large town. The whole of the oceiii steamers go the^e to take tae whole of the matron and wool away, and there i* no National Bank there ! " Oh memory, sweet memory.

A ra'her gruesome di-overy was a few days ago made by a party of men engaged oa -the conduction of the LawienceKoxburgh railway line almost immediately ab the rear of the now prscuically demolished Chiaeie Camp neac Liwrenco. Waile exca vatin., a large tea tin, containing bbc decomposed body of an infant child, was coma upon. The tin and its gruesome oonteuts had been buried a few feet below ths nirfaoe, and its discovery naturally afforded ample .scope for speculation as to the probability of a one-time tragedy. The uneartbeal package WBS quietly and uncorenvuii ously restored to its former restingplace.

A CAEOIi FOR CHARITY,

Winter, friend of health and wealth,

HAiled of goodly gull and boys, Slays the poor by strength and stealtb.

Makes their lives his li'eless toyj. One bjy gjes galloping over the moorland. Wi'd with deUghb of the sunshine and speed, Lithe as a bird on his bleak bright foreland, Glad a.% tha wind or his own g!a 1 bteed. One, with darkness and toil fast bound— Bound in misery and iron fast— Drags his nakedness underground, Sees the mine as the world at last. Winter, lord of laughing Yule, Winter, weeping on bis dead, Bids us ease his iron rule, Bids uj bring his poor men bread. Algernon Chables Swinburne, November 21,1905. Thi3 poatn is Mr Swinburne's conbribubion to bbc ' Qaean's Carol,' the Christmas b)ok published on behalf of Her M-jasty's Fund fo? the Unemployed,

PEOPLE IHE WORLD NEEDS.

— The Women.— Women who are gentle, courteous, and kind. W men wh > have not Io ;b tho ancient arS of loviog. Woman in whom tha' maternal inst'nefc is nob rried up. Wtman who believe they bava a higher destiny than a life of idleness and luxury. Women who consider ib beneath their dignity either to drink or smoke. Womea who will never speak un charitably 'to the 1 ss ioi tuaate of their sex.

—The Men.—

Men who pub charac'jerabove wealfch. Men who will cot ioso their individuality in a crowd. Men w'ao will ba as hoaesfc in small things as in great things. Mea whose ambitions are not ooiQned to their own selfish desires.

Men who are true to their friends through goad report and evil report, in aiversity as well as in prosperity.

Men who do not believe that shrewdnesi, sharp less, canning, ancl long, headednejs are the bast qualities tot winnirg success.