Brief Mention.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3106, 31 July 1894, Page 3

Brief Mention.

Tho were 188 cases of twins registered in New Zealand iu 1893. A silver tongue may be tipped with brass, and so may its owner. When money talks even the purist does not stop to criticise its grammar.

There is nothing else quite so interest ing ia this world as other people’s affairs. Rico was known in China two thousand eight hundred years before Christ. It is said that the ape and the camel are the only quadrupeds which cannot swim. ‘ I am the man that cau aud will deal with the unemployed question.’—Mr E. M Smith, M.H.R. The Wellington Technical School propose to add to their branches of instruction that of wood carving. The Emperor of Russia plays the

cornet. Can this be the real secret of Nihilistic activity ? It is expected that Dr Edward Nettieehip will receive 2000 guineas for th 9 operation lie performed ol Mr Gladstone’s eye. If ignorance is blis?, the wonder is why so many people complain of being miserable. When marriage is a failure tho chief bankrupt usually puts it ail in his wife’s name. “ If Chicago came to Mr W. T. Sioad ” it would probably bring a horsewhip or a six-shooter. The man who makes loud claims to good character ought to be careful and have it always with him. Tho enthusiast is a man who feels perfectly sure of a good many tkings that ho is mistaken about. Every man should know something of law ; if he knows enough to keep out of it he is a pretty good lawyer. We may strive to know ourselves ; but no man can find out personally that he is afflicted with the habit of snoring. Harrow has a record which no other pablic school can boast, in that it has produced five Prime Ministers during the present century. To relievo toothache, chew ciunamon bark. It destroys the sensibility of the nerves and suspends pain immediately, besides being pleasant to the taste. A little boy’s composition on the zebra : —“The zebra is like a horse, only striped. It is chiefly used to illustrate the letter Z.”

What a world this would be if a woman ad as much confidence in her husband’s ord ae she usually has iu tho word of a eddler.

It is easy enough to say that you wish your enemy no evil, but wait until something happens to him and see if you can help feeling glad. The richest man in Germany is Herr Krupp, the great gun maker. He pays taxes on an annual income of 6,000,000 marks.

During the last two or three years or so seven New Zealand owned vessels have fouudered on and around the New Zealaud coast loaviug not a soul to tell the tale. The Government have thoroughly restored the graves of the sailors aud soldiers buried at Rangiriri on the Wai kato, and have renovated the cemetery. The last pure-blooded Iroquois Indian, named Teiratassriake, recently died in Canada. The Iroquois were a great race, but their tasle in nomenclature was not msthotic.

Governors of gaols and workhouses frequently say that among the severest punishments inflicted upon the class with whom they deal is tho unsatisfied yearning for tobacco. A trust woi thy authority gives a very simple remedy for hiccough—a lump of sugar saturated witn vinegar, in ten cases tried as an experiment, it stopped hiccough in nine. A temperance lecturer sail that, among other things, porter, taken in largo quantities, makes a man fat. Surely he was wroug. It is more lik-ly to make him lean—against a lamp post. In India 25,000.000 acres are made fruitful by irrigation. Iu Egypt there are about 6,000,000 acres, aud in Europe about 5,000,000. The United States has about 4,000,000 acres of irrigated laud. • There are said to bo 80,000 stuttering children in tho schools of Germany. The increase has been so great during tho past four years that the defect is considered to be transmitted from the stuttering scholars to the others. Talk about franknGss in advertisement! Tnis, from a Manchester paper, will take some beating : “ Holiness meetings, Star Hall, Aucoats. To-day, at 3 and 8, ‘ I will . . . purely purge away thy dross and take aivay all thy tin? —ls. i., 28).”

A man, described as a human ostrich, who gained his livelihood by swallowing all kinds of things in London publichouses, eventually died from an obstruction. After death his stomach was found to contain, amongst other things, corks, pipe stems, eight pennies, and pieces of tin.

Professor Anderson Stuart has been telling tho Royal Society that sugar produces great muscular energy. Anyone who has seen the guilty small boy flying from tho pantry on hearing tho maternal footstep requires no better illustration of tho truth of the proposition. A son of the late Colonel Maude, Crown Equerry to the Queen, aud grandson of the late Lord Hawarden, makes a “ living wage” by palmistry. lie is weirdly clever at his craft, and dresses like a “ bucca bashaw,” in gold embroideries, jewellery, and all tho rest of it. It pays, he says. Probably the largest piece of cut glass ever made in America is at present on exhibition in Now York city. It weighed 70 pounds before it was decorated, and lost about 20 pounds in the cutting. The piece is a punch bowl, 18 inches high and 24 inches in diameter. The actual cost of production was nearly £BO.