HERE AND THERE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4981, 13 April 1889, Page 2

HERE AND THERE.

The members of the medical profession are about to consider what steps should be taken in the matter of enforcing the pains and penalties of the Dental Act on all unregistered praclilion era. If these are equal to the pains and penalties of the Dental Operation, they ought to be given the option of a fine.

Have you over read that intensely funny book, “ Through the Looking-Glass, ” —a children’s story book in which a little girl is carried through a mirror and sees most remarkable things and has queer adventures on the other side ? There are some verses in it concerning two friends, a walrus and a carpenter, who take a quiet stroll along the sea shore, which irrestibly remind one of the attitude of a certain member of the Harbour Board towards the shingle at the breakwater, and the emotions it excites in him. The application is quite easy. Here they are :

The walrus and the carpenter Were walking close at hand ; They wept like anything to see Such quantities of sand. “ If this were only cleared away,” They said, “ it would be grand.”

If seven maids with seven mops, Swept it for half a year, Do you suppose,” the walrus said, “ That they could get it clear ?” ” I doubt it," said the carpenter, And shed a bitter tear.

A Wellington paper tells a story o£ Wellington boys, which a wise discretion would have kept out of print, as it is calculated to give a stranger a low opinion of the average intelligence of Wellington boys. The New Zealand Times says:—“The boys of this city are taking great interest in the progress of the work in connnection with the electric light. Groups of them follow with eager 1 eyes the men engaged fixing the lanterns and wires to the posts. Should one of the men let fall or throw away a small surplus pieceof the insulated wire the precious prize is at once seized by the inquisitive youngsters, who retire to a sheltered spot, and with a great waste of matches endeavour to ignite the wire, fondly imagining that the application of a match will set free the latent electricity. A group of seven youngsters were seen yesterday, hard at work with their matches and a piece of wire, and when both matches and patience were exhausted, the biggest of the group, with an extraordinary look of wisdom in his face, said as knowingly as a newlymade M H.R., “ Look here, this blessed electric wire is a fraud, I’ve used a whole box of matches, and it won’t light a bit.”

The Oamaru Mail has drawn attention to a proyision of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, which it is as well the public should be aware of and beware of. It is that cats are declared to be natural enemies of the rabbits, and that any one killing, selling, disposing of, or capturing a cat, or allowing one to be found in his possession by a rabbit inspector or a constable (unless he can prove that it was lawfully in his possession or on his premises without his knowledge or consent) is liable to a fine not less than five nor more than twenty pounds. There is no mistake about it. There’s the law 1 And if one wants to drown a batch of kittens, or smash a full-grown howler on the roof with a boot jack, he must hunt up a rabbit inspector and get a written permit, He may not “ dispose of ” a cat or a kitten, in any way. Must not capture one, oven if he wants to got it out of his meat safe, without the inspector’s permit in writing. There’s lots of fun for the police if they want any, in carrying out this Cab Preservation Act.

Fifty years ago we could speak of the educated and the uneducated; we must now call a person who has betn at a primary school “ educated j ” a person who has been at a sccondaary or high school, would be “more educated,” or, as we would say of them, they had received a superior education. Those who, had been at a university, and had or had not received a 8.A., M.A., L.L.D., would be called “ highly educated,” and then there is a numerous class of self-educated people who when superior to the third must be " most highly educated.”

A Wellington paper wants to know whether the “ ugly, yellow and black, snake ” captured by Sir George Whitmore on his run at Poverty Bay, came in the straw packing of wine from Australia, or inside the bottles!

“Did God make the baby pa?” “Yes. Willie.” “ About what does he charge for a kid like Jimmy P”

An accommodating husband,—Jonrs: “Do you teU your wife where you spend your evenings ?” Smith : “ Yes, when 1 know.”

Editor: “Have you any letters or other testimonials to show that you are a literary worker by profession ?” Applicant ; “If you will look at my pants, sir, you will find that they bag badly at the km.es ; and, if you will pardon me for turning round, you will see that they are worn shiny in the rear. Yes, sir, I am a literary man,”