News in a Nutshell,

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 258, 4 October 1883, Page 2

News m a Nutshell,

All the fun of the fair— Flirtation. Drawing it mild— Painles« dentistry. During the recent popular fete at a village near Lisbon, a dynamite bomb was explored with terrible results, four persons being killed and twenty wounded. * . Some Holland publishers have begun printing their publications m blue ink on a light green paper, which it is stated gives great relief to the eye of the reader. 1 Goodness I call the habit, the goodness of. nature the inclination/This, of all, I virtues and dignities of the' ? mind/' ! is r the greatest, being the character of the r|ejty : and without it man is a busyjmischieyous, wretched thing, no blatter than a kind of vermin. it is odd, and sometimes melancholy, .to see a man ' trying 'to make up his mind when he has no material on hand to work with. : ■-'' ' The source of weakness to every nation under. heaven,' said Joah. Billings,' ' comes j from the fact that Us women have so little to do and so much to siy.' There are nearly 6000 Americans residing m Paris. ' Out of 59 who went ' up for the last law examination, 19 failed. Working Men's Clubs are being successfully established m Melbourne. There are 2,000,000 hives of bees m the United States. There is every prospect of a brilliant season for the crops m all parts of South Australia. '' . , Sixty- men are temporarily out of employment m consequence of the fire m the mines at the Thames. r ThrLondon^tram way s itf the*year cf.rry forty millions ( ot passengers, and run between four and five millions of miles, y , It is estimated that there is £150,000,000 of British!' capital invested. -in f South America. * .. There are now being builfc>iny England' 784 iron or steel vessels the . estimated tounaga of which is over one million tons. A Western' gentleman says that if the farmers of the country would publish their miitakes as well as their success, there would be more information imparled than by the usual mode of 1 telling their success. There was a noticeable improvement at Messrs.' Nolan, Tonks and Co.'s last: stock stock sale at Hawers. There was; more enquiry for steers, and everything; yarded was sold. '..., . <' The 'next Bankruptcy Act comes into operation on the Ist of January .next. A French doctor has been sent 'to gaol for selling a tonic warranted to make a man live 200 years. :.'-••'■>■ For ! seeking out and punishing crimes : m France an army of 2 »0.000 individuals is engaged, costing 41,694,720 francs, while the amount expended- for primary ! nublic instruction is only 20,034,916 francs. It is related ,of Theodore Hook that, [ strolling along the strand one day, m i company with a friend, he observed, a dandy approaching them, dressed m the | first style of the fashion, and sailing down the street with the air of an emperor, j passing by the ordinary mortals who sur« rounded him with immeasurable disdain. Just as he came near, Hook. stepped up to the exquisite, and humbly enquired, • 1 beg your pardon sir, but are yon anybody m particular?' The disconoerted beau looked at the grave querist m utter amazement and walked away, without a particle of dignity left, , , .-.>... 'I don't waut no rubbish, no fine sentiments,.if you please,' said the widow.; who' was asked what kind of an epitaph' she desired for her late husband i's i temV stone. • ' Let it be short and . simple,, something like this : * William Johnston,' i aged 75 years* The good die young.'