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Otago Witness, Issue 2287, 30 December 1897, Page 36

— The offensive weapon of tbe ostrich is his leg. He can kick as hard as a mule, and it is a remarkable fact that hie kick is forward, never backward. — Recent insurance statistics show that if the wife dies first the husband on aa average survives nine years, while if the husband dies first the wife survives eleven years. — A Boulogne correspondent states that one of the sisters at the Ursuline Convent at Boulogne will in a manth or bwo abtain her hundredth birthday. It is 80 years since she took the vows, and since then she has not lsft the convent. Sister Butor, the lady in question, belongs to the village of Hermelinghen. — According to the strict creed of the epicure, even the appropriate colour of a dish is a matter for consideration. For instance, during the warm weather a' soup should be either white, pale amber, or of a delicate green like the early leaves. After a white soup a salmou, a lobster, or a white fish, with coral or emerald sauce, should invariably follow. The succession of such harmonising courses is a rpgular matter of study with the true gourmobo