BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 120, 19 May 1909, Page 5

BRIEF MENTION.

" A little nonsense now and then, is relished.by the wisest men." Keep the burrows full. The progeny- of a pair of rabbits in ten years, will number 70,000,000. Rain falls more frequently between 3 aim. and 8 a.m. than at any other time during the day. The wise man writeth a book, but it is the publisher that profiteth thereby. "-■'; .' ■ ' .•■''.■■/■.■ ' . "I have never understood an In-come-tax form to this hour," Judge Rentoul confessed at the Uld Bailey Court. . , Iveep moving. Things move so .fast these <uays that people' who say /'it can't be done", are interrupted by people who "do it." f May 19.—Born: Professor John Wilson, poet and miscellaneous writer, 1785. Died: Anne Boleyn, Queen of England,, beheaded, 1536; John Hales, "the ever memorable" scholar and critic: James Boswell, author of "Life of Dr: Johnson," 1795. Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, statesman, 1898.■■"■. : On the 19th May; 1681. the opening of 'the. famous canal or Languedoc, connecting the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, took place. The engineer, Riquetti,_,did not live to see his work completed. ■;■.;■.■ The effect of this canal in promoting agriculture, commerce, and the arts, in the South of France, has been\ very marked, and as universally admitted. ■ ■■ »'

The very corpulent suitor had just proposed on his- knees to his inamorata and she had coldly declined. "If you will not accept my offer," said he, in desperation, "at. least help me up. ';'

The Bishop of Moosonee presides over one of the largest dioceses in the world. It is 400,000 square miles in extent, and includes the North Pole.

"For what purpose," inquired a schoolmaster, "is the skin of the calf used?" "To contain the veal, sir!" was a bright pupil's, ready answer.

'-'A little money earned by your own exertion is worth aIL the legacies- that were ever bequeathed^" Judge. Willis: declared ait the Greenwich County Court. . 'y

■ "I agree with those who dislike long races for boys," said Mr C. B. Fry in distributing the prizes in a school. "The craze for Marathon races is absurd, and serves no good purpose/."

"Silas, we don't know nothin' about the -jsufferin' among the poor until we read the papers," said a Bradford .woman to her husband last Tuesday. "What have you found?" asked Silas.

"Why, right here they're advertising to sell undressed kids at so much a pair."

Rather than -disclose the fact that' she wore: a wig, a woman whose, hair caught fire accidentally at a friend's house in Marseilles allowed her face and neck io be; badly scorched .before she tried to extinguish the flames.

"How much do you charge for. a single bath?" asked a shabbily-dressed foreigner of the proprietor" of a-sub-urban bathing establishment., ; "Sixpence; but ' you may have a dozen tickets for five shillings." ;. >, ' "Twelve" tickets.' How do I know thai" I am going to live twelve years longer P" .•

,The War Office, says London Punch, is' stated td be seriously alarmed at the uncompromising ' attitude o^f Labour; towards the Army, and considers that the proposal that no battle, shall las:t>>more than eight hours may, if addp^tea, seriously handicap us in engagements with a less enlightened foe.

"Oh, me lady! me lady X I have lost little Master Algernon in the park." "Good Heavens ! Why didn't you tell apoliceman at once?" "But me lady, I—l was speaking { to one when Master Algernon was losing himself."

If,'a racegoer had backed all the winning horses at Lincoln on March. 23, starting with a capital of £1 and staking all'his; winnings onithetsuc^ ceedrag' races, he would have,,wort £5,888;914. '.; . ".■■ .■ . . '//''■ 'I:'-'

The sercet of success in modern business is to do perfectly the thing _you set out to do. .The Dresden Piano Company, Ltd., knows all about pianos. ; It has collected all sorts of curiqus and valuable .information about them. If your house has no piano, it is so much less a home. You can get.one so easily that you \yill Scarcely; realise that you are paying for it. Mr M. J. Brookes is manager i'or the North Island. If you communicate' with him, or with the Company's local representatives, Messrs Griffiths and Son, you will, be put in the right way. "&