ODDMENTS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11248, 11 April 1908, Page 4 (Supplement)

ODDMENTS.

When the new harbor works at Dover arc completed m 1910 they will accommodate fifty men-of-war. Glass bath-tubs are coming into general use m Germany. They are cheaper and more sightly than those of porcelain. "Do you believe that men and wr-men should have equal rights?" "Well, 1 used to, but since I've been married I don't daro to say so. " Grocery Clerk : And how do you girls vound at 12i9, like your new niistressThe waitress : Shuie an' .she's a perfect lady — just like wan of oursilves. — Brooklyn Life. "Now," said the physician, "you will have to eat plain food and not stay, out late at night." "Yes," replied the patient, "that is what I have been thinking cwr pince you sent m your bill."— The Catholic News. Musical Manager : Now, candidly, talking of the performance of Wagnerian opera, what <Io you think of our company's execution? Candid Critic: It is not execution, my friend; it is assassination. — Baltimore American. As an incentive to matrimony the next census should show how many women there arc' m this country who faithfully an A diligently labor to support their husbands.— Post, Washing-' ton. :*. • , . "Officer," said tho police magistrate, "what is the charge against the prisoner ?" "Haying .an internal machine m his" possession, your honor," replied th*'« policeman. "Anarchist .or chauffeuv?'' queried tho magistrate. Mrs Gadsby (hugging- dog)— l don't know' what we're going to do about jpobr, 'darling F.'do. Mr Oadsby : Humphh! What ails him? Mrs Garlsby" (hi surprise). :Why, . haven't you noticed how irritated ho becomes wli;-!i ever the baby cries. '■' Three hundred streets m Berlin are planted With 44,000 trees, which represent;' a value of £33,000. The care , of the municipal parks and gardens requites 250 gardeners and 700 assistants, male and female— principally the latter. i ;"' ; .-' ;■:..■■■•■ - - ' An. order has been issued by tho French Naval Department that all the ships of war !?halr m future be painted the color of "wetted canvas," winch, by an experiment with the Pbthuan, proves to render them invisible at a less disjtahce than with other colors. . ; Oklahama, tie latest State admitted to the : Union, is the most advanced, in its legislation. It has just, passed a j law providing that no hotel shall use sheets less than 9ft m length, and 'shall use "no cup, dish, vessel, or receptae'e for food that has a crack visible to the naked eye. ' j "Yes;" said Miss. Jiltham, "he was an old flame of nune. And when you told | him I was to be married next week, did he seem sorry?" "Yes, he admitted j that: he felt very sorry," replied Miss Gabbie. "Did he, really?" "Yes, although he said he didn't know your fiance personally " . Mr Ryley : Why are yes decoratin' Mrs Murphy? Mrs Murphy: Me by Denny is comin' home the day. Mr llyley : I fought it wuz for foive years he wuz sint up? Mrs Murphy :He wuz; but he got a year off for good behayvure. Mr Ryley : An sure, it must ' be. a - great comfort for ye to have a goood b'v, like that. From an Eastern city comes a sad story of a -pawnbroker'**.-' He was enjoy--irig a beauty sleep when a furious knocking at the street door; brought him to the window with <a. jerk. ':Wliat's the matter?" ha shouted. "Come down,'' demanded the knepker. "But— — " "Coin* douoi !" The man of many'nephews hastened downstairs and peeped around the door. "Now, sir?" lie demanded. . "I wan'sh know the time,?' .said 'the reveler." "Do you mean to say you knocked me up for that? How dare you?" The midnight visitdr looked injured. "Well, you've got my watch," lie said. .■■ ; ■ The parcel-tying string of the future is to be made of paper. Rccjirding; it- a writer m the Home jounial Tirom. which the .foregoing interesting piece of-infor-mation is derived 1 says : "I liave- just been, examining ; string of this- cha racter on the pranises of Messrs Hunter; Ltd., o<f Poppin's court, near FleeJ. ytreet. I tried to break the string. Though' l told myself-— nio Delilah being on hand to> do the telling— that the Philistines were upon me, and called myself 'Samson' till I; was black iii the face, I could t no.t-7 break the string. There is a. slight hamp thread m tlie centre of iii© string, anid it is surrounded with twists of papeW II .-saw'- at. Messrs Hunter's not only a single strand, but a- stout cord' ni&de by tliie union of d number of such pieces as that I first vainly tried to snap." The steamer Norman Isles arrived at Newcastle last week from Manila. The vessel Ifft^ Manila on the 2nd inst. Early ,on the morning of the 16th, when steaan ing /past Little Reef, m latitude Ssdeg. south, the tail shaft 'broke at the boss, and the propeller dropped off into deep -water. Fortunately the steamer carried a spare shaft and screw, and' the | engineers at one© set to work to fix the new gear m position. Though there w<as a long 1 swell prevailing, the engineers .<->ueoeeded m getting tEe shaft and •propeller into position by the evening of tlie 20th inst. The- locality abounds m ooral reefs', but the steamer never got inito any real danger, except on one occasion, when, she seemed to be making for an atoll, but when about three .miles off a fresh current was encountered, which carried her. clear of the island. The Norman Isles proceeds to Sydney to dock.

A scene occurred at Bendigo (Vie.) City Council last week, w.hen a letter '"was read from Mr Glass, M.L.A., complaining of some TOmarks mad© by the Mayor. As soon as tho letter was lead., Mr Glass gob up from a seat m the cliamber reserved for strangers, and said he, wished to make an explanation. The Mayor ordered him to desist, but on Mr Glass persisting, the Mayor ordered the caretaker to remove him. As Mr Glass refused to leave 'when the caretaker requested- Win, a telephone message was sent to the police ; and amidst much disorder the Council adjourned' for five minutes. On the appearance of two plainclotlies policemen, Mr Glass refused to quit, and was eventually carried out by the policemen and a Council- employe.. When released 1 he rushed; buck /to th© and' hammered: for' ad!mission., but on- finding his efforts vain, left, the building- .'.'/■', ;-■■ "I guess^ Hinnissy, whin ye .come to think uv it they ain't army such thing as luxury m thravel. We.wa s meant-to stay where we found oursilve s first, an' thravellin 1 is conthry to nature. I can go fr'm Chicago to New York m twinty hours, but what's th' matter with Chicago? I can ; 'injoy places bettber be not goin* to thiin. I think ay Italy as th' home iv th' Pope, but Hogan, who -has. been there, thinks iv it as th' home iv th' flea. • I can see th' dome iv St. tether's risin' again' th' sky,' but he can ori'y see th' cabman that charged him eighty liars, or thirty cints iv our money, to carry him, around th' block. 1 think iv N'cvv York as a placs where people set shinin' their diamonds with satin napkins at th' Waldorf an 1 dlirinkin' champagne out iv goold coal-scuttles with Jawn W. Gates, but T know a man down there " that dhrives a dray. I've ahvuy s wanted to see th' Rocky Mountains, but they don't look as tall nearby as they do far away. — Mr Dooiey. * • ' The t>resent condition of the Jewish world is thus described by the editor of the Jewish Year Book: " "In a' year which lias been marked' b T social disturbances m nearly every .country m the world, it was only to be expected ,tliat the Jewish question would reflect the prevailing feeling of unsettlemcnt. Tlie Judenschmerz, which is always with us, has been much intensified during tho' past 12. months. .So fai* from lifting, the clouds have descended m an ever-thicken-ing" gloom. It is no- exaggeration, to ray that m this twentieth century the. condition of the majority of the Jew s presents * picture of abiect misery such as even the 'worst periods of the Middle '-Ages could not . hatve exceeded.' With " the • whole of Eastern Europe bent upon their extermination or expulsion, ar?d the civiliVtvl countries nf t';e West" k-ss inclin- <] tliiin ever U> 'receive tlient.. the outline fm- (lie tame lx-ing s^vnis alnunst lui|vless."