NOTABILIA

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 161, 13 October 1883, Page 7

NOTABILIA

A Lady's Wisit. — "Oh, how I do y;isli my slnri was as clear and soft as yours !" said a lady to a friend. "You can easily make it so," answered the friend.. ."How?" inquired the first lady. "By using Hop Bitters, that makes pure rich blood and blooming ■Jhealth. It did it for me, as you observe." Read. Professor J. Bernard, of Devonshire House, Ho bson- street, notifies that he continues to give lessons in Dancing and Calisthenics, recsiving pupils at his private residence, "and attending classes at Remuera and Ponsonby,, We understand the Professor intends •taking a well-earned holiday shortty, and will probably be absent from Auckland for about three months. After a careful investigation of the manufacture or cigarettes, the New York "faculty" fiitds :— " The ■^nildest cigarettes are benevolently made from fine- cut tobacco, out of which the injurious strength has been mlready chewed byg«ntlemen of leisure." Thank goodness we can't nfford to smoke the mildest cigarettes. Poverty is a blessing sometimes. A lady, who made some purchases at a fashionable drapery establishment, "complained that there was something wrong with her change. " Was it that young ■genttewan with; the lighfchair who served you ?" inquired the£uo§s. . ."Oh, no," she replied, "it was an elderly .nobleman with a bald head." ■4§Ch artels Towers 'paper calls one of the cancli•dates'"in an election " a lying, evil-minded, slanderous, jpeace-disturbing, virtue-killing member of society, a being hearing the semblancp of a man, but having all the despicable instincts of a fiend." And yet they say ■fche Observer's language is too strong. "Warinclen, Secretary to the London River Plate 'Bank, has slid with £110,000. A good many .people, who wouldn't rob a church of the electro coinanuniou plate, would like to be in Warinden's place, and •take their chance of going to a warm den in the next •world. In answer to many kind and anxious inquirers 2*Feuad wishes to state that he is filling rapidly, and •expects the full complement of subscribers. Those •jfriends who have shared ill-luck in other consultations are. invited to remit a single 10s with a chance of -scooping £850. The next event of public intertest after •the- Melbourne Cup will be the Auckland Cup and .Steeplechase.