GENERAL NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1180, 16 September 1885, Page 5

GENERAL NEWS.

The Thames " Star" is responsible for this item. A curious case is puzzling the doctors at Kihikihi. Che other day a little girl of eight years was kicked by a horse. Part of her skull was broken, and some o f her brains knocked out. The child is alive, conscious and able to speak. She appears to be doing well, and there is some chance of her recovery.

Mr Ashmead-Bartlett, whose asperity even victory does not seem to soften, celebrated his success at Eye by calling Mr Gladstone a "curse." The defeated Liberals console themselves with the belief that at the general election this particular "curse" (though by no means a chicken) will again "come home" to rule the Parliamentary " roost." — "Punch."

Another case under the Municipal Corporation Act, from Palmersfcon North, will shortly be hoard. According to the Wellington "Post" a gentleman some time ago formed a footpath for the council, paying half the cost himself. Before he got paid by the council, which was 12 months after the work was done, he was elected councillor, and sat for six months before the account was passed. For giving the council 12 months' credit he has been sued for £100 penalties.

| Two ministers on a pededestrian tour went into a country public house and ordered a gill of whiskey. The refreshment was produced and duly measured out in two glasses. One of the brethern, reverently putting his hand over his eyes, asked a blessing on the grog, while the other tossed off the both glasses. With a look of wonder the other enquired, " Where's my share ?" " Ah," responded his companion, " you should have remembered the whole of the Scriptural injunction, that ye should both watch and pray ; for, ye see, ye was prayin', but ye wasna watchinV In these days of athletics it is worth while knowing what an authority says upon the art of getting strong. He says : — " The secret of muscular recuperation is in stopping when fatigue begins. He or she who is not the fresher in body and mind for the exercise taken has had an overdose of what in proper measure would have been a benefif . Tho gain in strength is Bhown and felt in the increasing ability to do more and more without exhaustion. The measure of success is not in the greatness of the feat accomplished, but the ease with which the exercise is indulged in, and in the absence of exhaustion after it. There are occasions frequent enough in which people in the struggle of life are forced beyond their powers of endurance, and there is no need to carry into the pursuits of recreation the fatigue which exacting work imposes." A "loan exhibition." — The pawnproker's window.

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