One Thing and Another.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 879, 4 January 1889, Page 6

One Thing and Another.

The use of ‘ we ’ instead of ‘I ’ by Sovereigns began in England with King John, 1199. Modern table etiquette requires that asparagus should always bo served as a course by itself. Salt and vinegar, applied hot, are good for oleaning brass, which should afterwards be polished with fine ashes. The . discovery of the pool of Bethesda is announced. Bouquet-throwing has been abolished in the London theatres. Electric light in cakes of ice is a novelty for the illumination of ball-rooms abroad, The Bulgarian crisis has ended. Prinoe Ferdinand and Stambuloff have arrangod their difficulties. •' The German Emperor, unlike either Kaiser Wilhelm I or Unser Fritz, is strongly prejudiced against Freemasonry and has in consequence never joined the-craft.

Thepin factories of the United States manufacture about 18,000,000,000 of these diminutive but useful articles every year. This is a pin a day for eaoh inhabitant. There are 87 tunnels of more than 1000 yards in England, the longest being that of the Severn—7664 yards. To test nutmegs, prick them with a pin, and if they are good the oil will instantly spread around the punoture. A physician recommends that ali the wood used in the interior construction of houses aud all plain surfaces of plaster should be thoroughly oiled or varnished, so that the power of abaorbtion of foul air aud gases should be destroyed.