News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 235, 6 September 1883, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

The lates^ mode of, popping the question iwas' introduced by an Evansville >young .mam The cold snap' nerved him to asK his adored*? "Miranda^ do you w^ ,tp warm your telt against mj back this winter •?" AndlMif ind% blustfed and softly murmured : f It's iroing to be a terribld'cpld winter, John/ .-,r\ •'.'} ' The percentage of „fatalj acoidenbs m Tasminian pinea is by, no means a light one^eighi' miners having been killed last yeardttt; 'of^a total of employed, or ,;two. to every 200o v : r,\ j'.'. v ., .-.,,. i" ] ,Theii^renprable l! 'setiipr and presiding bishop of the American 1 Episcopal church, Dr Smith, may be said to have" been a citizen z under every - President of the United,, Statei. He was ; five years old when General Waßhington<dißd*i.:>'i | A company has been formediin Vienna j to undertake the general) business of washing' 1 windows. It is Ukejw|seL>pro» pared fo 1 execute ordera for the" scrubbing of house fronts and vestibules, and the; , clean syig of -mirrO ws ! and ' Bho Wi'cases, 1 aiid doubtreaaipr all kindred xjpa^ations. A Tanke^^^g^ask«d«to«describe-bis-"wtt^SiS3r she»d make a regular- fast, go-head steamer,, myv wife woutd, she has such a wonderful talent for blowing up." | „An unfortunate man!} who has failed several times, says he) wishes somebody would start a temperance movement that would keep money fromj getting tight. .. ?.' My son," said a stern father, *do you know the reason why 1 jam going to whip you V ,;.< Yes/ replied the young hopeful, ' t " J suppose it's because you're bigger than< .;..;,. j ' ; ii '''A ruatiCj entered a jeweller's shop to buy a watch. , f A good) big one, mind !" he said.' "None of your wretcheji .little! kioksna^s for me. They make 'the hours {aoSsmall/ihd Uiiieigo ao'fajs(t 4 " „ f ... na . " I was' a younig man," says ißillings,"!- was 'always m a hurry to, hold the big end of Ue lo'gfand do all the lifting;. now I am blderi I seize iola of" the small end aad do all the grunting." ' * The ,Que;en has oommusioned a firnH, to prepare, a, handsometigrey giranite: monu* , ment to b® erected .pjer Ithe ,gravo,of ; the/ late John t 4n Qrathie Oliuroh*!, y» ra » '"'v. :• '^"k i'j'ai-! i<s-- :: * ■-^■' ' The Arkansas , Legislatuf e. , passed, ,»'. Biir prohibiting 'the sale of liquor within two miles of any* church, j