ONE OF THE SEMI-PRIVATES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 70, 4 August 1868, Page 3

ONE OF THE SEMI-PRIVATES.

A Pun ok lUun noons DisQUAi.iKiun.— \V*o notice that tho reporter to Iho Star has bean rather funny at the notion of tho exhibitor*, at the .Poultry Show having per* mi-jslon to put a "fanoy prico" on tlicir •' barndoors," as ho says "In somo oases bordering on tho absurd," N>w it's a well acknowledged sxlom that everyone Is tho liotit judge of their own valuo, consequently, thi** would apply alio lo n person's fowls • and If tho reporter has not discovered tbis, It Is probably because ho has not valued himself, but boon content with what others couolder Iho mar/iet value of bat ndoors gonorally, which varies both In lhe feathered and biped, according to hrcedlni*. SorKNTtfio ano IJmkpi****/— According lo tbo Press our Acolimatl/,rillon Soeiely is not only doing somo uneful, but ihoy aro also flaying some elrango thlngn. At tlicir Inat uivetlii^ tho cliairiiiau mild it would "bo advantageous to introdiico hedgehogs, which, alihough thoy discharged eggs, were extremely ufloful In destroying grubs," Now. wo Hhould imagine that the find would Ikj nvlher a rotiomiuendatlon, alihough wo havo never hoard that hcdgohogH woro what might be called " good layors," Had J)r Ilauut been prcsont, ho would have thrown somo light on tho mailer > probably ho would nay thoy wero too far (tufa) layers. Examination Pai'ukh Hat Class).— Who was Alexander ? Alexander, surnamed tho Groat, was tho hoii of Philip, and founder, ihoi'ol'oro, of tbo modern family of tbo PhlUpsons, Ho went to war when ho was fifteen, from which it U evident that com, missions were given to hoyu in thoso day« Just as tlioy aro at prosont, His first exploit was taming tho homo Uucophnlus after all the courtiers had boon thrown in the attempt, upon whioh -Philip burst into loiim, and predicted Hint bin sou would conquer distant king loins, a prophecy that might as woli bo mado ln reference to Master Foley, or nny olher juvonllo equestrian prodigy, Uo built a town on tho Nile called Alexandria, and aimed at Indian o.onque-'t, and attacked Porus, an Indian King, whom ho rendorod literally porous by drilling holes with hie ancarull ovor tho unfortunate pel on talc. He dlod at tho oarly ngo of thirty-two, of delirium tremens, universally regretted by, all who did not know him, Anothkk Lkotuiih on MusMnnißsr.— • Magnetism Is said by Its friends to bo particularly efllcaolouH in seconding thoso cases which nature has commenced, Mesmerism, aooordlng to its advocates, booh haud-iu-haud with nature in drawing disease to a oonclunion | while its opponents compare It to the exhausted and uholcsh haolt harncHsod by the side of the strongand sorvlcoabloliorao, merely " to make bollovo thero wan a pslr of 'em." Thero ls a curious caso recorded of a younff man who hud a coup-dc-sotuil extracted from the top of, his head iuto a glass of magnetised water i after that, the scrip in tho company established for extracting sunbeams from cucumbers ou.bt to begin to look up a bit. What became of tho eoupde.solcit aftor Its extraction wo arc not told, but it certainly ought to havo been placed under a glass case mid lienl lo the L'hllosophical Society. Had It turned nut to bo mere moonshine, it would have told in amazingly well with a few other of the discoveries of the highly respcciablo body alluded to, G-501) Advioh hy a Micmihcr ok tub Oantuiijh/iit am.ianch.— "Tako earn of your « poor fool' this oold weather," A gentleman holding ono of the highest positions In Lyttolton Hiiysi "If I feol chilly atall beforo iming to bed, I do not tako two or three f-iiissus of warm grog, as I used to do, but a dozen of llolloway'n pills • and thoy do mo much more good, and aro infinitely less expoindvo, I hiivo £27 by these pills every year." UWIHMIIIMUIIiI —mm - '11 imiiiiiii i i i»m*,wmmi«l«<l«MM