BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 119, 18 May 1909, Page 5

BRIEF MENTION.

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

Some sound arguments consist mainly of loud talk.—Josh Wise.

Mafeking relieved, May 18, 1901 Duly celebrated in Blenheim.

May 18.—Died: Charles Perrault, miscellaneous writer, 1703; Ephraim Chambers, encyclopaedist, 1740.

The "Tales of Mother Goose," 'to wit, "Blue Beard," ;<Tomb Thumb," "Cinderella," etc.,/were a production of Perrault, the celebrated French author.

The Picton Press, in its exuberant joy over the fact that the "Liverpool of the South" has now a cab, all its very own, .says "Picton is growing more like London every day I"

The disruption of the Scottish. Church occurred on May 18, J843. It took its origin in a movement of zeal, in the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, mainly promoted by # Dr Chambers, and to which a stimulus was given by a movement in the Scotch dissenting bodies for putting an end. to the'connexion of Church and State. . V

O'Brien—Oh, but me daughter's the shmart girl. She set two mm ftghtin ilfdr 'her- handi . Landert—Ands '•she; ma#ied''tfie-'^viftfee*? ; ,O'Brien— Begorry, no!- She. married tie oneshe coi^ld: lick; aisie^t. ~,/.',-•■•/ '■•' " "Give woman the credit she1 deserves,' ' the suffragette ' cried, ' 'and where would man be?" "If she got all tne credit she wanted he'd be in the poor house," sneered a coarse person in the rear of the hall. Mrs Liza Hron, of Vienna", has petitioned for* a divorce because her husband accused her of sympathising with the English suffragists. ;A first-edition of Izaak Walton's "The Complete Angler" was sold Jor £1085 at Sotheby's recently, the buyer being Mr,,Quaritch. Old "La.dy: I've brought this porous plaster back. There are a1 lot of holes in it! ■ ~ Chemist's Assistant: Quite so, madame. They are to let the pain out! ■ • , -. Brer rabbit has apparently had a bad. time in Wairaj^apa of late; Farmers in iie, district state that .the past four or five months have been the most successful for; poisoning they, have ever known. Exit bunny 1 'fDo you know" why the chickensi cojne. out pi\ the; eggs, Robbie?" asked the benignant old lady visitor. , "I suppose they knew they'd get boiled if they stayed in," was the small boy's ,Teply v ..•..,■,.:,.■..•■ .. '„'.-■,;-, -.- '. ) '■'. : ""'Owing to 'tne : extraordinary good health- of the community, the trustees are now nearly bankrupt," declared Mr- Nott (secretary) at a meeting of the Cemetery' Boaa-d at Taita, near Wellington. !.*''• We' have had three months of extraordinary health." Judge: Why-did you strike this maaPj "•" ' '"■' •'■('• • ' ■ Prisoner: What would you do, judge, if you^kept a grocery store and a man came in and asked if he could take a moving picture of your cheese?; —Harper's Weekly. . .r There is ", a .report,that Amy Bock is to write the story of her stay at Nugget Bay and the circumstances leading; ,ur. to the wedding; the proceeds of the, sale :of the, pamphlet go^ ing- to mate up th^ £41 she borrowed from Miss Henderson; ; Officer I (to Fho has missed vevery L shot):;! Good; hekyens,; -man; where are your shots going? Recruit (tearfully): I don't know, sir; they<left here all right!— Punch. Mrs.Emily Park Requa, whose knee was so badly injured in a railway accident that she had since been unable to kneel in prayer, was awarded £2000 damages ao-ainst the New York Central Railroad..

A1 vote of thanks to the spirits who had. helped in the work during the past year was solemnly proposed, seconded, and carried at the meeting of the London Spiritualist Alliance on. March 19.

An old farmer recently visited a newly-married daughter in Dublin, and, seeing antimacassars on the backs of the parlour chairs, remark^ cd:— ■ .-.'•.'

"Well, Mary, you city folk hey a fanny way iv dry in' yer washin'."

■•"Children'have'- a faculty of identification," noted Mr Justice Chapman, in his summing up to the juryin a case in Wellington, in which the evidence of seve.ral children Had. been .heard. "They.", are observant, \ ,and remember faces? : very clearly, •'• probably- more accurately than adults. A face once seen by a child is Jiot easily forgotten."