ODDS AND ENDS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 599, 14 January 1879, Page 2

ODDS AND ENDS.

Fearing that socialism may take root among the Poles, the Russian Govern* ment intends to adopt a more conciliatory attitude towards them. It is also their intention to improve the condition of the Jews. A litle Cincinnati girl when asked what God had made her for replied: " To wear a red fedder m my hat." Many an old person of her sex has, to all appearance, pretty much the same conception of Heaven's designs. A woman, when she was called as a witness m an assault case tried m the Edinburgh Borough Court on being asked by the magistrate what was the profession of her husband, answered very promptly, "My husband is a bankrupt, sir." A travelling fortress, consisting m a well-guarded, ironclad coach, made of boiler plate iron, bullet proof , and having port holes, is now running on the Cheyenne and Black Hills stage path. Lessons m composition, m the use of capitals, m letter writing, and m the arrangmentß of sentences, have taken the place of the formal study of grammer m the Boston schools. . The London gas companies have, resolved, if the electric light comes to anything, to endeavour to obtain Parlia mentary sanction to apply it to London to the exclusion of comers.