ODDS AND ENDS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1905, 18 June 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

ODDS AND ENDS.

Recollection.

As when a player, weary of the day. Takes up hi 3 instrument and plays along, First aimlessly, until unto some song, Heard long sgo bis fingers find the way— The old tune bringing memories which lay Deep buried in the past, once glad and strong — He feels egain those joyß around him throng, And weeps erewhile to think they cannot

stay; So I, aweary with the passing hours, In musing fell upon the name of one, Now dead and pone, who was once dear to

me, And reoolleotions, sweet as summer Bhowers Came back, swift as the fudfc, faint gleams that run. At dawn, across a great, pray waste of sea. — William Bartlelt Tyler.

Fourteen thousand openly professed Protestants bciong to the sixty Protestant organizatins in Spain. It i 3 jnat eighteen yeara since tha first Protestant chapel web opened in Madrid.

According to oflbh! statistics Paris last year consu^td -1.000 000, egg?. It also drank 87 500,000 gallons of whie, 3,217 000 gallons of spirits and liquora and something over 12,000.000 gallons of cider and beer.

_ The Palestine sooioty of German Catholics has bought a tract of 150 seres on tho northern shore of the lake of G^nnesaretfa. Taey are also building a church at Cana of Gililee in honor of St. Bartholomew, a native of Cana.

A British sea captain Eay3 that whales are increasing in number so fast that accidenta to ships from running into them wiU soon be of frequent occurrence. A sailing ship under a five knot breeze might as well strike a tree aa an old bull shal9.

The following advertisement appaered recently in a Liverpool daily paper : " A lady who loves Christ wishes to meet a gentleman who sincerely loves Htm too." Address F., 53., Mercunj office.

A traveller in Holland noticed two heavy brass handles pending from a high chimney board in a country hous?. " What are they for?" he asked, and the Hollander explained : "Why, for old gentlen^n to hold by when lifting up one foot to warm their toes. Our ancestors were heavy and could not stand lorg on one leg without support."