BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 139, 10 June 1909, Page 5

BRIEF MENTION.

"A little nonsense now and then, ib> relished by the "wisest men. Sunny Marlborough! The hardest frost of the season this morning. Rotomahana terraces destroyed. June 10, 1886, It is stated that there are 200T Chinese at present in the Otaki district engaged in market gardening. Lots of buttons are now worn on ladies' gowns. Husbands are worn, as usual, on a string. There are said to be about two hundred members of the Seamen's Union in Wellington looking for ships and unable to find them. "Is the lake in the south side park artificial P." ' 'Oh, no; it's quite real. Our Johnny fell in, and got as wet as anything." . June 10.—Born: John Dollond, eminent optician, 1706: James Short, maker of reflecting telescopes. 1710.. ! Died: Thomas Hearne, antiquary, 173-5; James Smith, promoter of subsoil ploughing, 1850. A foreigner, watching a young kitten playing with, its mother, asked of his friend, "Vat you ze cat call veni he is a little pup?" "If I succeed in my object," said Mr McNab referring to the Universal Military Training, scheme,. "I will have accomplished more in private life than in all my political life rolled in one." Johnny: "They're makin' shingles out o' cement now'days.'' Dickey: "I don't mind that so much, but if maw ever gets a pair o' cement slippers I'm goin' to run away I" . . According to a message' from Singapore. the wireless operator on board the American transport ship Kilpatrick says that while in the Atrlantic a German liner, in reply to his. call, responded "Shut up 1" : Every child born, in Schoeneberg, which adjoins Berlin, henceforth will receive a savings book, and the sum of one mark will be entered in the infant's name and placed in £hosavings bank. Nursemaid: "I'm going to leave, mum." Mistress: "Why, what's tho matter? Don't you like the baby?" Nursemaid: "Yes'm, but he is that afraid of a policeman that I can't get near one." Speaking about advertising at the meeting of shareholders in Schweppes,, Ltd., Sir William Treloar said that a firm which had a good thing to sell and did not advertise it was like a. man winking in the dark at. a pretty girl- ■/' • /Two Japanese domestics arrived! ;by the Wimmera in Auckland. They; will enter the service of twoladiea who, according to the N.Z. , Herald,, have lived in the land of cherry-blos-som. . ..;.;■ Weary (lying under the apnle tree): "Say, mister, kin I have one of dem apples?" Farmer: "Why, them apples won't be ripe for four months yit." Weary: "Oh, dats all right! I ain't in no hurry. I'll wait!" At least one clergyman^ in theHutt Valley has a distinct vein of humour. In a sermon recently, the divine said that it was "fortunate St. Paul did not live -in these days, for instead of his; beautiful epistlesposterity would have nothing but a? collection oi"souvenir postcards!"

Bones (telling a story): /' 'Well, the evening wore on—" Jones: "It 'did, eh? What did it wear?" Bones:: "Well, if you must know* I believe it. was the close of a summer day." Returning from the Magistrate's Court at Tenui, N. 1., a motor-car held. besides chauffeur, the Magistrate (Mir iW. P. James), the Clerk of the Court, ! the Sergeant of Police and the lawyer. for the defence—and the car got safe home! From Rome comes the news, ®ay_* a London paper, that, after a law suit lasting for 100 years, Signor Caraciolo has been.awarded 23 titles, namely—Prince, marquis, three countships,.. 18 baronages. "I suppose," said the casual acquaintance, the day after the wedding, "it was hard to lose your daughter." "No," replied the bride'sfather. "It did seem•:as if ij> was going to be hard at one time, but she landed this fellow just as we were beginning to lose all hope."