GLEANINGS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 779, 4 February 1887, Page 4

GLEANINGS.

DRAWING THE LINELittle Nellie—What does your papa do ? Little Dot—My papa is a horse doctor. ‘ I guess I better not play with you ; I’m. afraid you do not belong in our set.’ ‘ Why, what does your papa do ?’ • My papa is a vet’rinary aurgecn.’

under very straitened circumstances. She tries to earn a living by selling cherry brandy, of which beverage the New k orkers are very fond. She has a number of autograph letters of the great novelist in her possession, which she absolutely refuses to sell, though handsome prices have been offered by collectors. An experienced poultry-raiser advises people to reduce the stock of fowls as soon as the year’s hatch is well provided for, but hold on to old turkeys and old geese ; they get used to the ways of the farm and are worth much more as breeders than young ones. Ducks also are good until three years old. A turkey is in her prime at five, a goose at twenty years of age. American publishers have lately found that they can get their work done cheaper in Europe. The . frequent straggles with printers in regard to wages are not known there, and a book can be contracted for a year or two ahead and still both printer and publisher be satisfied. Not only in London, but in Berlin this is done. A novel ballet produced at a London theatre illustrates by means; of costumes and accessories, the most beautiful specimens of Dresden ware. Statuesin imitation of caryatides bearing baskets of flowers, shepherdesses and groups of figures in Dresden and Saxony china, make a unique stage decoration. The streets and squares of Berlin contain upward of 45,000 trees, and the number is constantly increasing.