Brief Mention.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3102, 21 July 1894, Page 3

Brief Mention.

j Ships aro now made of iron ; but they I keep a log all the same. I Having buried all evil habit, beware of I visiting the grave too often. It is when coining golden sentiments I that a lady ought to purse her lips. Little Girl : You bad cat, whore’s my bird ? Cal : Oh, he’s just gone inside. , [ Cupid is always represented as a baby, because Love seldom lives to grow old. So long a 3 a woman retains hor maiden name it is her maiden aim to change it. I Most people will stand by you to the I last shilling, but it must be your shilling. I There’s this to say in favor of the ere I mationists. None of them want the earth I One of tho commonest mistakes is to I

I look at people through the wrong end of I the telescope. I The scales used in the London Mint can I show a difference in the weight of a card I after a name has been written upon it. I It would take 1,800 thicknesses of a spider’s web to equal tho thickness of a I single hair of a man’s beard. A man in Chicago stole bis wife’s false I teeth, and applied for a divorce on the j ground of physical defects. He is looked i I upon as the meanest man in the world.

' I Don’t forget to carefully look a fellow j 3 I over before you call him a liar. If you 1 j cannot look over him don’t call him one, I or you’ll regret it. I The largest audience ever addressed in I - J one building was 23,654. This number I I assembled in tho Central Transept of the I I Crystal Palace, on tho 7th October, 1857, I to hear the Rev C. H. Spurgeon. I Eight prisoners aro employed by the I I Invercargill Corporation, who pay 2s 6d I I per day ; and thirty-four are employed on I I the New Plymouth breakwater, but for I I them tho Harbor Board pay nothing. I The London Times of tho 19th of May I I consisted of 24 pages, or 144 columns, of I which 82 were advertisements and 62 I j news. In the 105 years’ existence of the I I paper, it is the 50th number which has I I reached this size, and tho twelfth in which I I the .advertisements have exceeded 80 I columns. I The Prince of Wales and Duke of York I I are now constantly shadowed by detectives I lin consequence of the activity of the I I Anarchists. In return of Land for Settlement Report I out of se venfy-seven settlements on land, I three aro returned as having a settler I resident on them with his wife. It is said that Mrs Wolsteuholme, I president of tho Woman’s Suffrage League ( is to edit the newest Sydney paper. It is I to bo called Tlie Woman's Voice. It j f should make itself heard in the land. Two Tasmanian ladies—mother and I daughter—recently organised a concert in i their village to raise a fund to give work I to tho local unemployed by putting in ra I £ pair a very bad bit of road. Affair a great c success.

A record in preaching has recently been accomplished by the Rev W. Morley, President of the Austrulasian Wesleyan Conference. On five successive Sundays he occupied pulpifcj in five different colo-

nies, tho towns in which ho preached being : Adelaide, Ballarat, Sydney, Brisbane, and Auckland. A Mr G. W. Banbury is the swiftest short hand writer in tho world. Ho has

written 320 words a minute, thus showing, saj's the Reporters Magazine , that (Sir Isaac) Pitman’s phonography is capable of performing anything which the human hand can accomplish. Mr Banbury says “repetition is the only means of getting up epeod.” lie is an Irishman by birth, and was educated in Dublin.

A soldier, aged 19, was executed in I Winchester Gaol for the murder of his officer, whom he shot when at target practice, out of revenge. Tho culprit was baptized and confirmed by Bishop Thorold while awaiting his execution. A novel cure for insomnia has been proposed by an English doctor, named Dr Huxley. Ho says : “ When you find the ! prospect of a sleepless night looming con vinciugly up, cover your head with tho j bod clothes, and breathe and re breathe only the respired air. There is no danger, for when asleep you aro sure to disturb the coverings, and get os much fresh uir as you require.” A young artisan of Prussian Silesia was

returning, with his bride, to his home, from tho Registrar’s office, where the civil contract of marriage bad been carried out, when an officer of justice suddenly took possession of the lady. The reason was that while the wedding was being solemnised she had removed a watch from the possession of one of tho witnesses to the marriage contract. A recent London sensation is Arniotis, a girl of marvellous skill, fine faco, and trim figure, who, after carrying a table, a barrel, aud two chairs in her mouth round the stage, astonishes spectators by bearing round the barrel in the same way with first ono man and theu two astride it. Among the latest inventions is an elec- j trical thief-photographing process, by which anyone who attempts to open a drawer, or box, or room, where ho has no business, will get himself photographed for his pains without his knowledge, bo that he may bo afterwards identified.

The humming of telegraph wires is a phenomenon which has not yet beeD satisfactorily explained. It is not caused by wind, for it is hoard during perfect calms. It has been conjecturod that changes of temperature, which tighten or loosen the wires probably produces tho sound.