Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 23 April 1892, Page 2

Notes and Events.

How delicious 1 It now appears that the Americans are producing paper cigars as an article of oom* merce, and, what is more, are being backed up by connoisseurs of the fragrant weed. The cigars are prepared from sheets of paper which have been soaked in tobaoco jiu'oe, and then pressed and cut into the requisite shape by means of specially constructed machinery.

Mr Thomas Bateman, who is a member of the Primitive Methodist Conference Deed Poll, and is now 92 years of age, is still preaching special sermons with vigour and power.

Strange words are met with some* times, as note " columbarium." The General Cemetery Company, the owners of Kensal Grflen Cemetery, have decided to erect a columbarium for the reception of forty- two cinerary urns.

An English paper says the Jarva wood of Australia is hard and as durable as oak. It probably refers to the " Jarrah."

A Canadian correspondent tells a story of a novel method of avoiding the Sunday liquor traffic law, whioh was discovered in Montreal a short time ago. The proprietor of a candy store was arrainged in the Recorders Court, charged with " selling liquor on Sunday out of a whisky corset." The latter part of the charge astounded the dent of the court, until the chief of the police explained that after some months of effort to detect how liquor was sold on Sunday in the French quarter of the city, one of his men, while in a Cindy store, saw a man pass the

proprietor uc. The proprietor produced a small rubber tube from under his vest, one end of which the man put in his mouth and sucked. The officer pounced on the proprietor, and a search revealed that the man wore a pair of tin corsets, with doubled space between the inner and outer partitions, holding over a gallon of liquor. To this the tube was attached by a stop cock, The customers leaned over the counter, took the tube in their mouth, and sucked until the proprietor thought they had had the worth of their money, when the supply was turned off and the tube put back underneath the vest. The police discovered that many a buxom candy store woman wore similar tank corsets, and did a rushing bnainess with rubber tubes on Sundays.