BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 100, 26 April 1909, Page 5

BRIEF MENTION.

" A little nonsense now and then, is ryashed by the wisest men."

Mother Earth in the grip of Jack Frost.

Heavy fall of snow on the ranges on Satui'day. "

The early morning bather now shivers and shudders,: on the river bank.

Spiders live two years—when the housewife's broom is not about. "Bosh" is a Turkish word meaning nothing.

••The estimated number of cattle in the world is 160,000,000 head.

In Vienna, organ-grinders may only play between midday and sunset.

In London, lamps cause 500 fires every year( gas 219, and chimneys 179.

April 26—Born: Thomas Reid (moral philosophy) 1710; David Hume, philosopher and historian, 1711. Died: Ferdinand Magellan, Portu-~ guese navigator, killed 1521; John, Lord Somers, Lord High Chancellor of England, 1716,- Sir Eyre Coote, military commander, 1783.

Sunday sports authorised by ..Queen Elizabeth on April 26, 1569.

The games included shooting with standard and broad arrow, shooting at the Turk, shooting at the 12 score prick, leaping, running, wrestling, throwing the sledge, pitching the bar, etc. i

. Seven hundred thousandl milk* churns pass through the hands of the Great Eastern Railway Company, London, each month.

Judge (with a notorious scoundrel before him): What has become of associates in your early life of crime? Prisoner: They're all hanged, except your Honor' and myself.

"I have seen fifty carts pulled up outside this coffee house," a witness stated at the Marylebpne County Court. "Men prefer coffee-houses to public houses nowadays."

"Would you recognise 'II Trovatore'?" a policeman was asked at the Brentford Police Court by a great musician. "No, I don't know him," he replied, stolidly. Every man is enough of an optimist to look to the bright side of his wife's troubles the day after the cook leaves, but somehow his pessimism returns when she1 suggests that he help wipe the dishes.

Thei'e, is a man in Kansas City whose name is Burst. It is a misfortune that would not have attracted much attention if he had not called his two children Annie M*y and Ernest Will.

"I suppose you get a lot of honeymoon couples billing and cooing here?" asked the inquisitive stranger of the landlord of a hotel on the -promenade. "Well, ye-es," replied the man of experience; "plenty of cooing. I manage the rest."

From New York is flashed the astouncung news that a gas company is about to refund money to householders. America was ever the home of sensations.

Vicountess Helmsley's advice* "Love your trade, however humble,", is unnecessary, as most of us are already so attached to our work that we can't get away from it. ;

An old Quaker, not careful, of the teachings of the faith, was discovered by his wife kissing* <the cook behind the door.; But the Quaker was not disturbed.' "Wife," said he, gently, "if thee doesn't guit1' thy spying, thee will make .trouble in the family."

A student at Klausenberg, Germany, shot a fellow student because the latter failed to grasp his argument in a scientific discussion. He the"n committed suicide, explaining in & letter that he could not bear to live in a world where everyone except himself was stupid.

Mr William Harris Nnmber One, a son of the "Sausage King," explained in the Kingston County Court, London,, on March 5, that this was actually his real name. He said all his six brothers were also named William Harris, and that they were named "William Harris Number Two," ' "William Harris > Number three," etc.,. in order to distinguish them. -

'"Behold," whispered thfejjpiritualistic medium, "it is the spirit of your dead wife."

The man saf> still and said nothing. "Don't you understand?" whispered the medium again. "It is your dead wife. W Thy don't you speak to her?"

"Oh, she'll do the speaking if it's her."