Items of Interest.

Opunake Times, Volume VII, Issue 299, 20 July 1897, Page 4

Items of Interest.

Advice is a good thing in its place, but it isn't everyone who can hit the place. Although fortune knocks at every man's door once she doesn’t always give a loud tap. Old settlers declare that this is the best winter experienced in the Dane* virke district for many years. Owing to the mild nature of the weather feed is fairly plentiful. Haskell : “ What’s Bobby crying for ? Mrs Haskell: “Oh ! the poor boy caught his finger in the pantry door.” Haskell: “ H’m !he evidently didn’t get the jam he was looking for that time.” CHANGES SUIT. When one is still a bachelor, His mind runs all on hearts ; But after he’s a married man, To clubs he soon departs. A German lias invented a paper shirt bout, which consists of seven layers, each of which can be torn off as it gets dirty. The whole thing costs about threepence, and is typical of Teuton economy. More Matrimonial comment—Husband : “ There’s one thing I can say for myself, anyhow—l have risen by my own efforts.” "Wife : “ Never in the morning, John. It takes two alarum clocks and all the members of the household to get you up then.” The German Empress possesses a unique tea seivice. The teatray has been beaten out of an old Prussian half-penny, the teapot is made out of a. German farthing, and tiny cups are made from coins qf different German Principalities. Nearly all the Royal personages of Europe are cousins, and not very far removed, as it has been laid down by a German genealogist that every crowned head of Europe, excepting Turkey, is descendent from one or other of two sisters who lived 150 years ago. “ My mither sent me tae see if ye wad gie her a calender like the ane ye gied Mrs Mackay,” said a boy to grocer in the village. “ But, my little boy,” replied the grocer, “ Your mother does not get her groceries here.” “ No,” replied the boy, “ but she borrows them from Mrs Mackay, and Mrs Mackay gets them frae ye.” At Port Chalmers the Rev D. R. Fisher was charged with neglecting to vaccinate a child ten months old. Defendant set up the defence that he considered it would endanger the ciiild's health, and pointed out that a Royal Commission at Home recommended that when patents objected to vaccination the law should not be enfotced. The J.P.’s said they had only to deal with the law as they found it, and imposed a fine of 20s and costs. This is the second time Mr Fisher has been found.

The Sheriff (Mr Bloxam) received au official intimation at Christchurch on Thursday morning that the Cabinet would not interfere with the sentence on Sheehan, for the Amberley murder. He immediately went to the Lytteltsu gaol and communicated with Sheehan who appeared quite resigned to his fate. The Sheriff has fixed the hour of 8 a.m. bn Wednesday next as the date of execution, and has decided to exclude the Press representatives. A terrible disaster occurred on the 13th May on the railway between Dorpat and Rigs, Russia. A train conveying two battalions of the Krasnoyarsk Regiment was wrecked by : such a tempest of raiu and thunder that some of the soldiers not killed by the smashing together of the trucks were drowned in the flood. The railway track was washed away in a few minutes. Fifty-six men were killed and 43 seriously injured. Two of the guards were also killed and one injured. They built a fine church right by his door, He wasn’t in it. They brought him a scheme for relieving the poor, He wasn’t in it. “ Let them work for themselves, as I have dono ; They needn't ask work of anyone It they hadn’t wasted each golden minute.” He wasn’t in it. A carriage swept over the street one day, He was in it. The funeral procession made a display, Ho was in it. St. Peter received him with book and bell; “My friend, vou’ve purchased a ticket to —well, Your elevator goes down in a minute,” He was in it. When most needed it is not unusual for your physician to be away from home. Such was the experience of Mr J. Y. Schenck, editor of the Caddo, Ind- Ter., Banner, when his little git], two years of age, was threatened with a severe attack of croup. He says ” My wife insisted that I go for the doctor, but as our family physician was out of town, I put chased a bottle of Chamberlains Cough llemedy, which relieved her immediately. I I will not be without it in future.” For sale by Newman Bros. In 1892 Mr A. L. Goldwater, who owns three retail drug stores in New York city, having learned of the great value of Chamberlain’s Cough llemedy for colds, croup and whooping cough, ordered a supply for his customers. It met with so much favor that he soon found it necessary to order more, and during the winter sold over two gross of the remedy. He says it gives the best satisfaction of any cough cure he has ever handled. For sale by Newman Bros. Take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds ; Is 5d and 2s 6d. All stores and chemists.