Notabilia

Observer, Volume 2, Issue 37, 28 May 1881, Page 402

Notabilia

— At a Tonga Church one of the colored divines said to his congregation : " I will preach from dat portion of the Scripture this evening where de Postle Paiil pints his Pistle at de Phasians."

—How many deaths are attributable to consumption, brought on by colds, in consequence of neglecting to keep the feet dry. Congestion of the brain, epilepsy, lung disease, all may be laid at the door of cold feet, and could be avoided by a little ordinary care. Have your boots aad shoes made at Garrett Bros. Factory in Wakefleld-street, who use leather prepared solely by themselves, and therefore guaranteed.

— Sarah Bernhardt is to visit Holland on her return from America. She is to appear thrice at the Hague, and thrice at Amsterdam, receiving £1000 for the series.

— Birds are truly beautiful. What can he more beautiful than the peacock, with its magnificent tail ? what more enchanting than the glorious plumage of the golden pheasant, or the brilliant feathers of the humming bird ? what is more beautiful ?— why, the renowned " Yellow Bird Tobacco," sold only by Partridge and Woollains, at their tobacco warehouse, Queenstreet. Try a packet of it.

— The Germans examine every American pig to_ detect its trichinosis. Do they adopt a similar plan with the unoffending- Jews, and x'erseeute the race on account of its striking noses ?

— Now the cold weather is coming on a good double-breasted overcoat is very desirable, made with wide loose fronts, and narrow partially fitting back. Mi-. Pord, tailor, Queen-street, can produce one in this or any other pattern, as cheap and well as anyone in Auckland.

— Mr. David Plimket, speaking in the House of Commons on the Coercion Bill, said a very good thing-. " Some parts of Ireland are so damp that even the snipe have neuralgia and nothing can live there but green plover and a dispensary doctor!" This is even better than Lord Beaconsficld's " damp isle, surrounded by a melancholy ocean."

— The Justine Princess dress is suitable for house wear, made of any dress fabric, to wear with an overdress of contrasting material. It is tight-fitting with two darts in the usual position in each front, and. a deep dart taken out tinder the arm, having side forms in the back carried to the shoulders. Dress materials of every kind at Mnnro and Mulligan's, Karangahape Road.

— You may go, father, and fare worse,' as the undutif ill son said to his parent. But the parent was up to his work, and replied : " Feat experimentum in coi-porofdi,; and it was ; and the son not finding sitting down a profitable undertaking- for some clays afterwards.

—The alteration going on at the Nevada Hotel, will, when completed, make the house one the best rendezvous in Auckland, and Harry Richmond one of the jolliest bonifaces. The dear old boy is becoming good. The other day a pious young man brought in a small account ; and the beautiful language in which. Harry expressed his opinion of tbat youiig man brought tears in his eyes. He said it r&minded him of his Sun-day-school clays ; and when that young man rolled home with a skinful of Harry Eichmbnd's Bourbon, his employer said .- " Bless him," and -lie meant it.

—A NeAV York factory is engaged in makingcheese out of lard, a substance which appears to be particularly adapted to the production of brie and kindred cheese. Orders for the new lard cheese outrun the supply, and, the label off, no one can tell this variation iv oleomargarine from genuine cheese.

— A young man last week, having been crossed in love at Parnell, walked to the end of the Railway Wharf, took off his clothes, gave one lingering look at the water, and then put on his clothes, walked down to Sinsrleton's jewellery shop, in Victoria-street, bought a splendid ring, gave it to another girl, and started making love afresh.

— A. was telling a story in the club. 8., when it was finished, said: "That reminds mo of another anecdote," and he related it. A. theiwpon remarked ; " I don't see how what you have told us was recalled by my story." "It was," replied 8., " because mine was on the same pag-e of ' Joe Miller ' as yours."

— At the 'YVhau Lunatic Asylum the other day one of the inmates, whose hypochondria consisted in fancying himself a balloon, was asked by Dr. Young how the delusion originated ? " Oh," he replied, "from the time my mother started using Hudson's baking powder in her bread ; that makes everything light."

— Some of Drake's friends describe a betting office as a place where (on a settling day) it is hard to meet you betters.

— What's in a name. A rose by any name would smell as sweet. So it is with the "Grape Saline," which is only to be procured from T. B. Hill, chemist, Queen-street, Auckland. Try it, judge it, on its own merits, and see if it don't beat " Eno's Fruit Salt," not only as regards efficacy, but cheapness. Go at once and get a bottle.

— A young Scotch curate of primitive ha"bits ancT unaccustomed to fashionable hours, was asked by a neighbouring gentleman to stay with him. He arrived when the ladies were assembled at five o'clock tea, of which he partook freely, thinking- it was the principal meal of the evening-. After a time he heard a bell ring ; ho was given a candle and shown to his bed-room. Thinking that the day wus now ended, he undressed, and in a short time went to sleep, from which he was awoke, in what to him seemed the middle of the night, by the loud sound of a gong and the rushing of feet in the passage. He was niuch puzzled, but at last it dawned on him that the house must be on fire, so not waiting to dress, he rushed as he was downstairs, to the astonishment of his host and fellow-guests, who were assembled in the drawing-room before dinner.

— Courage and coolness are rare things in women, and should be appreciated. Some time since a lady from London went to stop with some friends at an old-fashioned manor house in a lonely part of Yorkshire. She was of the masculine order of femininity, and never travelled without a revolver. Her sleeping apartment was a ghostly-looking chamber, hung round with ancestral portraits. Ono night, when preparing to " lie down in her loveliness," our strong-minded friend distinctly saw the eye of a full-length ancestor, temp: Chillies 1., wink at her. She had heard of burglars hiding behind pictures in old houses, but she did not scream nor faint. Opening a drawer as if to put her purse away, she drew out her trusty firingiron and coolly discharged six shots full in the face of the audacious portrait. Her host, rushing into the room, was rewarded by a view of his good-looking guest in a becoming deshabille, and of his only genuine Vandyek completely ruined — but nary a burglar. Never since then has he encouraged his lady guests to drink that fine old port of his on the tox) of champagne.