A Social Female Duel.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1890, 23 April 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

A Social Female Duel.

They met in a horse-car, two young women whose tawny faces mowed that they wero just back from the eecehore, and when they had kissed and embraced and been through all tho preliminary nonsense neceitary to the occasion, one said to the other ; " Ob, you dear darling 1 I had Buoh & flirtation with your huaband while you were away. Ha came down to see me almost every night." 11 Ye 3, ho wrote me about it," the other re» turned, sweetly. "Ha said you didn't seera so know anybody, and were so lonely he quica pitird you." "He was always co kin& to neglected girle," the first speaker murmured. "■You know they B&ia «hon yon wero married that he would hava taken all tho vtlk Sowers if h<» «aa&. bs so nenesoaa."

AKTiFrciAL b'acklead pencils) were made by an ingenious* Fiencbman named Conte so far beck aB 3795, and the inventor afterwards turning bis attention to the fabrication of chalk for drawing purpofeß, produced those 11 Conte crayons " of different shades which are known throupbout tho civilized world, and which still hold their own in the shop of every English artist colorman.

A medical student of Vienna lately telegraphed to his father, a well-to-do farmer, to forward him 50 gulden or more to purchase, as he said, a cow, to enable him to further bis studies as an inooulator. The indulgent father, who considered himoelf a very go' d judge of cows, baEtened to Vienna and purchased a splendid specimen. It now appears that the prompt arrival at the son's residence of his father and of the cow very muoh startled the impeounious young wan,

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risctTir.rhs were first prccuied ia X. 1 gl&ndin 180-,

Pepper ccsii LIJ an our.cc in Henry Vl l. 'a reign.

In 18S9 Canada had 2,389 miles of csnals — ranking, in thia respect, bc-loie any country in the world.

To neglect a farm in nncknt Italy was an cfl cos cognisable by thecenEcr.

A railroad in tha Argentine Republic ta'J ono stretch of 211 miles without; a curva or bridge. Japan eoritemplates doubling its navy in the na! cix years.

Berlin's euioida epidemic thowa no si^na of abatement. No fewer than 2.;0 peiisons died there by their own hand in July.

A wonderful ease cf longevity is reported from Augustß, Me. It is that of Airs. Nancy Kennedy, who is alleged to be 118 years old, and still vigorous,

From obeervations on the transit of Mercury recently taken at the Lick Observatory, the diameter of teat placet ia given as 2 9GO miles. '

From the Bumrnit of Mount Base, in Nevada, 10.800 feet above tho sea-level, the waters of 21 lakes may be Been glistenir>g among the forests of the Sierr?s.

_ A flea will jump over an obstacle 500 t:mrs its o^n height, To show the EP.ma muscular power n man would have to juzed over a w all nearly h mile high.

Archdeacon Psrrp.r maintains that it is ocly aa ignorant theology that can assume eeieace to be hostile to religion.

The amount cf beer -at present consumed in France does not exceed 220 000,000 gallons. England's anr.nr.l production ia from 990.000,000 to 1,100 OOO.OCO.

Is is not generally known that it was rV J till after the restoration that two bapt ; gE:a' n -.mcs were given to the same persou.

The Women's Tcmpa-SKce Union in Canaaa ha 3 a section compcGed of thr^e who promise to deal only with temperance grccerp.

In 10 years, says MajV Con der, tho Bum-oc-r cf Jews in Palescinp lias increased from 8 000 to more then 100 000.

Adv:eca from the town cf Zomcrra, in th c Un'ted States of Colombia, under date July 25 1891, says that Molina Peon, aßeisled by hi-i wife end daugh'er, had been found guilty of murdering 13 infante.

A philological statistician calculates (h^ in the year 2000 there will be 1 700,000 000 pmple who speak Ecglisb, and thot the other European languages will be spoken b^ only 500.000,000 people.

The dahlia derived its name from the Swedish botanist, Professor Dahl, who firet cultivated it. This beautiful flower was brought from Mexico, of whioh it iB a native, in the present century.

Jupiter is larger than all the other planets and satellites of the solar system. Th 6 eun is a little more f ban 1 OGO times larger than Jupiter. But Arclurus is GjO 000 times larger than the euu.-

An excellent drink for warm weather is made of lemonade to which a hal'-teappoon-ful of bicarbonate of coda has been added. The soda alters the taste very little, but it makes the liquid foamy and delicious.

No tea is now allowed to be brought into Great Britain unlees a fair sample has been submitted to the Government analyst at the Custom House, and is certified by him to be wholesomo,

Oatmeal is particularly valuable as a food. It contains more nitrogen than any other cereal, with a very large percentage of starch and sugar. Is contains more tfcan 90 per cent of nutriment. The coarsely-ground meal is the beet.

The oldest church in Europe ia said to be St. Martin'?, Cauierbury, which was built aa a church before the end of the fourth century. St. Mary-in-the-CKetle, Dover, was built aoout this time, but for nearly 200 years it was used as a garrison fuel depot.

An ingenious advertising sell has lately victimised a good many Americans. Some charitable individual effered to supply a eswing machine for 2a. in stamps, and the money poured v upon him. He strictly fulfilled his engagement by Bending a goodsized needle.

Miss Jennio Anderson, of Galveston, Texas, early one morning diecoveied a negro in her room. She seized a revolver, and, in her excitement, shot hereelf through the thigh. The negro flsd, but the women, in spite of her wound, followed and killed him.

Antiquarians will ba interested in hearing that an interesting discovery has been made in the village of Twyford, near Winchester In digging the foundations lor a new lesidence, the woskmen oame across the remains of a large Roman villa.

Is is authoritatively announced that tho Indian Government has finally decided not So annex Manipur." The deepatch of Lord Gross to the Viceroy with respect to the events which resulted in the recent outrages has been issued as a parliamentary paper.

The Sultan of Zanzibar has agreed to place the army and police under the command of a British olßcer. The organisation of the new harbor police and the oharge of the lighthouses aro also to be under the superintendence of a British officer.

Rain-making experiments have been tried in Texas, and with such success that, although when the operations commenced the sky was cloudless, rain soon afterwards fell in torrents. The downpour was caused by the explosion at a great height of 'oxyhydrogen balloonp, raclsarook powder, and dynamite.

The jelly-fish hapn't any teeth, but uses himself just as if he were a piece of paper when he is hungry, getting his food, and then wrapping himself b bout it. The starfleh, on the oontrary, turns himself inside out, and wraps bis food Rround him, Bnd stays that way until he has had enough. The prongs of the star-fish look like teeth, but in reality they are not, being nothing but ornaments to his person.

A snpr-retition tb3t is universally shared is the dread of spilling salt, and it is one whioh dates from t.'e most distant antiquity. Salt tha incorruptible and the preserver from corluption, the holy eubejance which waß used m sacrifice, could rot be rudely spilt or wasted without incurring the anger of all good spirits, and giving an opportunity to ihe evil onea.

The rate of growth of oorals is difficult to estimate. At the meeliDg cf the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Professor Heilprin exhibited a specimen of Porites asticG ..ides which bad been taken from Bn anchor caet in the nuturnn of 1885. He estimated that the annual amount of increase was scarcely one-twentieth of an inoh.

At the Geographical Congress at Bmie tho production, by irriTnpt'onei co operation or othtrwise, of a complete map of the world on a scale cf about 10 miles to> the inch, haa been discussed. Ttiis map, if printed on sheets of the size of an ordinary atlas, would require more than 3 000 suoh sheets to represent completely the land and sea surface oi the globe.

According to a correspondent, a young widow has Eold four or five square inches of her skin for L2O. A strip of ekin was cvi from her body by Burpeon3 and grafted into the leg of a maD. The female skin took kindly to him ; he is now whole again, It opess a visw to a new kind of commerce, which dcubtlef b Mr Goechen will Bee his wav to tax. — Court Journal.

The Italian Government has adopted a repeating rifle, which is tho Maunlioher modified. But the Italian cartridge is to be of six and a half millimetres calibre, whereas that of Austria and Germany is of eight millimetres. As a result, the Italians will be able to carry 140 cartridges to every 100 carried by Germans and Austrians,