BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 268, 13 November 1909, Page 5

BRIEF MENTION.

"A little nonsense how %id then, is relished by the wiae«fc men."

Blustering Boreas still with us. There's health in the plire moontain breeze. „

Don't hold your/head so high that you can't "see where your feet are going* , . To those who cannot go to universities, libraries should take their place, says an educationist. . Exclusive of allowances, an admiral of the fleet is paid £2190 a year.

For home consumption imported, in 1908, 2,167,280,000 eggs.

Nov. 13.—Born: St. Augustine, Bishop of- Hippo* and father of the Church, 354 j Pelagius, celebrated antagonist of St. Augu6tine 354. Died: Malcolm Canmore, King of Scotland, 1093; Wm. Etty, painter, 1849; Sir John Forbes, eminent physician and medical writer, 1861.

Strawberries are selling in Auckland at from Is 2d to Is Bsd.per Ib. Rather expensive yum-yum,

Beauteous bride: "Yes, that's Mara up there." Money-bag Bounder: "Ma's is it? 'Ow long 'as she ?ad it?

Started, in 1866, with the- trivial sum of £28, the "People's Bank," of Milan, now has a paid up capital of isoOjOOo. -.■■■■■ * : ..':':;■■

Advertisements were once taxed at 3s 6d eWhiri England, and 2s 6d in Ireland, but the tax was abolished in 1853.

;.'■ Guide: ' 'Come! Quick! Your Excellency. • , I. have spotted a leopard." Fanxqus Hunter: "Here! Here, no nature-faking goes"" on* this outfit. Leonards have always been spotted." - Ipi a fine flight of eloquence a lady speaker in Edinburgh. said recently,: "It; is hadly-oooked food that is sending ; bur men and, women, and even ourjchildren, to the public-house.'' ; Greeny: Oo's goiri' to win 'the -n'eit racf,Jmister? Bookie: I'll give yer the winner for a ,bob. Greeny: Well r that1 seems cheap, and I'd '»ye >im only % ain't got no stable'to keep 'iin iin. ,;■ ■ . ' ■ ' .• .

Sii* Victor HorsleyJ asserts ; that the habit of swinging the arms when walking is arshiivival ;i>f ;the time when we |walkißd ;<m ajfc fours 3 an* ha,d to Ul^b jotir.^rm^: as well asour legs, ' • '■'^flfckinal^'iri-^'T-hohghib':I'l' your dad wasn't going -to send you back to college?,". Clarence:. ''Yes, dad did kick at; the expense, but I tiujeatened to istiy at home and help run the busiliera, and he decided college would be ..che4Ber." ■~;■..:•. •:..:■-. •■;•.:■.

There are those who abuse every fprn) ,6f pleasure there is. But all pleasure \ should not on thai? account be prohibited. After all it is an eas^y. matter to prohibit the other fellow.'—Melbourne Pnnch.. • ' ;

Mrs S. Ciete (teaching her whist): "Have you any diamonds?" Mis Newriche: ''Well, I gUe&s. I've got nearly £5000 worth of *eln ;Upstairs."

AiMasterton. firm1 has received <an order for 8000 feet of white pine for Australia, ; The wood is t<> be-used for the .purpose, of making boys' criefcet bats. ■/. ..". .... ..■■-.•■

Tlie Girl: Mister Wiggins, parson's sent yer this basin o' soup, and -hopes as sow you'll- be at church next Sunday.'* • , ' 'Mr Wiggitis1: "You can jist run and tell parson as soup's all very well, bnt 'c don't git me inside his church undei' a hoUnce'6' shag an', a quartern o' gin-^6eoP" ,

The only London club .which the King honours with his presence nowadays is the Marlborough, probably the most exclusive social club in the, world.

A tough fowl was, responsible for the death o? a three-year-old Crewe boy who was scalded by the boiling water into .which his mother had to plunge the bird before she could pluck it.

> The following account of a funeral was published in a Yorkshire paper the -other day:'—"At the graveside the undertaker was seized with a fit, and, though medical assistance was hastily summoned, expired almost immediately." The careful reporter added: "This unhappy event cast quite- a gloom over the proceedings!"

"My dear sir," exclaimed the man whotjis painfally accurate in hiss use of language, that sign in" front of your shop is improperly punctuated.'" "You. don't ;tell ime!i J eiclaimed the old merchant. 1, \> '!v "■■';■:. (■ ' ■ ' "Yes,< sir. You "nave omitted a' comma .", ■~, ■. ,:..-, h ■■~■: ■:.:< ■ ~ ■''■

"Don't tell me any more. I can't bear to think: of it. Here I've made. only two op three paltrvuthousands out of this "business.; ...When'l think of the millions I might "have made if that comma had .been present I am, overwhelmed With remorse."