EGGS AND OLIVES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 40

EGGS AND OLIVES.

1889-91. Necdum omnis abaota Pauperies epulia regum; nam vilibus ovis Nigrisque est oleis hodie locus. Hor. Sat. IT, 3, UU-6. THE MEASUBB OF A MAN. Whom call I brave? — Who sleepeth with one row Of thin planks 'twixt him and the awful sea? Who, all afire with lust of victory, Hurls him in hot impatience on the foe, Reckless of ball or sabre? Who may go Thro' forest or dense jungle, momently In peril of his life from brake or tree? Who for his friend in death has laid him low?— Nay, verily ! But who dare sweep all thought Of men's regard out from him, as a wave Sweeps the light foambell, its own inrush wrought Of glittering empty beauty, to its grave In the profound : who holds his life unbought By smile, or sigh, or jibe, — him call I brave. Mahstas.

— In India there is a species of butterfly in which the male has the iefl wing yellow and the right one red. The colours of the female are exactly opposite. — Kid is not the only material from which gloves are made, although the name is long associated with them. Iron gauntlets were used in the Middle Ages; later, embroidered leather and jewel-set gloves, gloves of hair, linen, velvet, saliii, and taffeta