FACTS AND SCRAPS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1063, 5 April 1880, Page 2

FACTS AND SCRAPS.

The Waikato paper says :— The other day two little boys wer^playing together: After a while they begun to quarrel, aad—«. either ignorant or f oblivous of Dr. Watt's injunction " let their angry passions rise." At last one of them said, " I hate you." " I wish you were dead." replied the other. The first boy then said " I wish you were hung, and that I was sitting at the foot of the gallows looking up at you, and^ » eating ham and e^gs." This was tod" 1 much for the other boy, so he threw a ; stove at his quondam friend and decamped. A good story conies from the South.* & *? Dr. X was summoned to see a*ladjf . ,** wh© had been taken suddenly ill. Now.it' was after dinner, and the doctor loYedi s(J his wine, and he whs not just then irtr quite the trim for giviag a prescription. However, the lady was a good patient, and so he "pulled himself together)'**^ and drove to her house. Arrived there, he found the invalid in bed. He looked solemnly for a minute, a3 his hea&fsj seemed to swim round. He felt he was; not equal to the occasion, and groaned out ''Drunk, by Jove!" He astounded when his patient suddahly responded, "Oh, don't tell my husbandy or he will kill me." Taking in t^tcf) situation at a glance the doctor promised , secresy. "However did you find out so quickly that I had drunk too much, doctor ?" asked the lady next day,, and he muttered something about. fflfr&Q perience. - • ,O The New Zealand Accident Insurance Company had their first claim lh iftSSCL person of Thomas Brown, who was jjj-» jured at the Wharema mills. Wjthma few hours after arrival in Auckland, he i was in possession of the Company's cheque as compensation for injury. , Wonders will never cease, says the* Rangiora Standard. Not at all even/ty if Sir Julius Yogel can help them tor never see the broad light of day. Ajf New Zealand is convulsed at the present moment with what 13 called the " Teosiute plant." Sir Julius has sent Jtf : K package of its seed to the New Zealand Inspector of the Bank of New Zealand ; ominous sounds, bye-the-bye. This' is a wonderful forage plant. Sir Julius j says, it will grow again at the rate of a foot in four days 1 It is rioh in ■? saccharine matter and is highly nutriti- '' ous. It ia a grass of enormous size requiring somewhat a warm climate, but Sir Julius is of opinion that New Zealand ' climate will suit it famously. It is said to bg grand food fqr. jca^tla, Jtaaswe, <«, sheep, and as it grows so rapidly ana attains in a very few weeks a height of : ? some 12 feet, surely the millenium haft arrived in this hard pressed oolony. Let the results be realised as anticipated .„ and surely every farmer in New Zealand"will bless Sir Julius Yogel for ever and a day. In New York, a member of the Roman Catholic Church, who subsequently joined the order of Masons, purchased a family burial plot in the Oatholio cemetary, wherein several members of his family were interred. .v At his decease it was desired to bury his re- ' mains in the same plot, but the Church resisted, and a law suit ensued. The Court decided that the plot had been soldfor burial purposes, and paid for, ' and that deceased, as purchaser, was entitled to interment. The fact of consecration of ground not being recognised by the common law, could not be taken into consideration. This, decision, therefore, satisfactorily settles a long mooted point. A controversy is going on in the correspondence columns of the Sydney Morning Herald on the quality of tea imported into the colonies. It is asserted that large qaantities which have been adulterated with other leaves find its way to the colonies from China, the 1 ■ Adulteration Act in England having had the effect of keeping it out of the English market. The use of Indian teas is advocated. <