To the Editor of the Otago Witness.

Otago Witness, Issue 299, 22 August 1857, Page 3

To the Editor of the Otago Witness.

Mr. Editor— l say, Sir, I seed a letter o' the Prowyncial Solicitur's in your last paper. I readed it through, and I aint feeled sich a funny sensashun since I vos a boy, and rid 'pon a roundabout at Chisseler's Fair. I don't know'd where I beginn'd or where I left off. He says as how the Executive is the people ! and the people is the Executive ! and the Executive is the Government ! and the Government is the Executive ! and the Government and the people, and the people and the Government is all one — and so we ought to be 'appy and contented ! And so I is, sir, for I can't make nothin' on it. — I am, Sir, An Unqualified Elector.

Good News foe Colonial Ladies. — The wife of an American agriculturist has been experimenting on soaps, and finds that the addition of three quarters of an'ounce of borax to a pound of soap, melted in without boiling, makes a saving one-half in cost of soaps, and threefourths the labour of washing, and improves; the whiteness of the fabrics ; besides, the usual caustic effect is removed, and the hands are left with a peculiar soft and silky feeling, leaving nothing more to be desired by the most ambitious washerwoman. — Scottish Press. Magnitude op the Earth. — Dr. Lardner calculates that if the materials which form the globe were built up in the form of a column, having a pedestal of the magnitude of England and Wales, the height of the column would be four and a half millions of miles. A tunnel through the earth from England to New Zealand would be nearly 8,000 miles long. - A Model Public-house. — The following Bill is a curiosity in its way. The person who sends it says the landlord lives by farming : — "Rules to be observed at this house. — ' On" the Lord's day 1. No ale whatever to be drunk on the premises. 2. Families may be supplied with ale to drink with their meals at home. — On the week days. 1. On no account to allow oaths, profane language, or .cards. 2. No ale to be filled for any one if he appears to have had enough, or if he comes in having been drinking elsewhere. 3. Never to furnish more than two glasses of spirits at a time. 4. No ale to be filled after nine o'clock, and the house to close at half- past nine. 5. As this house is kept open for the accommodation of travellers, and those transacting business in the parish, parties are not allowed to frequent the house for the mere purpose of drinking. It is particularly requested that every one frequenting this house will to the utmost of his power, assist the landlord in maintaining the observance of the above rules, and preserving at all times peace and good order.'" Vanity or Rank. — Alexander the . Great seeing Diogenes looking attentively at a large collection of human bones, piled ,one upon another,, asked the philosopher what he was looking for. "I am searching," replied Diogenes; " for the bones ' of your father, but I cannot distinguish them' from those of his slaves." ' .'■''' At what age are ladies most- happy f— Marri-