NUGGETS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 29, Issue 1513, 29 October 1898, Page 4

NUGGETS.

A clergyman travelling in a workmen's train was somewhat shocked at the strong language of a fellowpassenger. Taking .advantage of a momentary pause .in the flow .of rhetoric, the parson mildly inquired; "My good man, please tell me where you learn the language you have just made, use of." • " Learn it-, guv!nor ?" replied the man affkblv, as if to a would-be disciple, " You can't learn it; it's a gift, that's what it is." It whs the first week at Chuckumout shed. Oily a couple had their hands in," and Dick had the thirdhighest tally. . Swelling with pride and magnanimity, he said tOiM'Kenzie: " Cut in Mac,-you can lick lots of these coves'ere. You'll be fourth anyway." Next day Mac was ahead, and said he to Dick : " Cut in, Dick, you can lick lots of these coves'ere. You'll be fifth, anyway." The yarn went round, and every man Jack was doing his level best. One after-another the others passed Dick's tally, till at List one shouted across the board " Cut in, Dick, you'll be last anyway ! Hori Grey (says the Bulletin) provoked more than one laugh at the expense of Vincent Pyke, another ;• veteran of M.L. politics: The; liiau from Tuapeka was once grumbling in • the Parliamentary refreshment room about his advancing years, and quenching a terrible thirst meanwhile. ." ~i ou ; know I have gone through a lot in my time, Sir George," quoth Pyke. Hori J gave a meaningful glance at the other veteran's empty glass, and quavered : " It isn't what you have gone through. Pyke, so much as what has gone - through you." Some genius, says the New Zealand: Times, has been going about among; the country settlers persuading them : to allow him to adopt heroic measures suggested by himself for eradicating scale blight and. fungi from their fruit ; trees. His modus was to concoct some awful compound in a bucket, then dip a fork into it and stab the 7 ; trunk of the tree. This he explainedi to the ; bucolics would have the : tendency of impregnating the rising i ; sap: with his mixture, and disseminate' it to the very .tips of the leaves. The result would be, he declared, that the insects would let go quick and disi appear for good. The result was that : a great deal of damage was inflicted-; : on the trees, many of Which. exuded' all Lheir sap and died, but not before the heroic person (who said he came from Yorkshire, where his method was in vogue) had skipped to fresh vine-, yards and orchards new with h larger amount of money-obtained on promise of a permanent cure. The following operations were witnessed (says a London paper) at St. I Paul's Cathedral the other day (1); A country bumpkin taking off his; •collar and tie and replacing them by new garments.;- (2) a young woman sewing buttons on her gloves; (3). another lady with her hair down using; a comb ; (4) a gentleman with a silk hat on his knees reading tit-bitty papers and maiking cutti.igs therefrom; (5) another gentleman munch-" ing a substantial srndwich. flow to see thß wind blow is told in the New England Druggist: "Take a polished metallic surface of two feet or more, with a straight edge ; a large hand saw will answer the purpose. Seh ct a wiruly day, whether hot or cold, clear or cloudy, only let it not rain or the air be murky—in other words, let the air be dry. Hold the metallic surface at right angles to the wind— i.e., if the wind is north, hold your surface east and west—and incline it at an angle of 45 degrees, so that the wind striking,' glances and flows over the edge. Now sight, carefully over the edge at some small but clearly defined object, and you will see the air flow over as water flows over a dam." j\lr Hider Haggard's house in Suffolk is painted a brilliant mustard colour. The printer unfortunately inquired of a facetious clerk the address to which Mr Haggard's proof-sheets were to be sent. The youth told him Mustard-Pot Hall, Bungay. Suspecting no evil, thither they were addressed. The author, who received them safely, called at the printers :ifierwards. and possibly con vinced the clerk that a too ready prelty wit wis not an enviable posses sion. An inventor in India has constructed an apparatus for cooking by the heat of the sun. It consists of )> box niade of wood and liiu d with re fleeting mirrors, at the bottom of tin box being a small copper boiler, covered with glass to retain the heat of tin rays c«nci titrated by mirrors upon tin buili-r. In this contrivance any sor of food may be quickly looked, th> result being a stew or boil if the stean is retained, or, if allowed to escape, i: is a b.-ike. The heat with this device may i,e augmented indt-finitely by in etea-sit.g ihe diameter of the box.