Brief Mention.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3107, 2 August 1894, Page 3

Brief Mention.

In New York no fewer than 27,000 wives maintain their husbands. The Victorian Budget shows a deficiency for the year ©f £665,000. An absolutely fireproof chimney, 50ft high, has been built of paper at Breslau. It is the only one of the kind. A Wellington resident has invented a machine for dressing flax which he claims will the industry. A number of free laborers havo been taken from a shed and held prisoners by tho unionists in the Wilcannia district. During tho year 1892 no fewer than 8216 persons wore successfully vaccinated in this Colony, the proportion to the births being 45*006. The latest London County Council going to establish municipal pawnshops. A Lint for the ‘Liberal’ Government of this colony. A zealous policeman at Addington it Was who discovered it required four men to manage a traction ©Dgine, and it’s now the law of this enlightened land. The Premier at Gore ( Otago Times; November 22). One out of a thousand ntterances : “ He hoped that never again in this colony would we go in for a borrowing and squandering policy.” The oldest tree in the world is still growing in California. A section of the trunk recently reached the British Museum a nd experts declare that it has existed for 1380 years. Parisian belles have their teeth jewelled now. This sort of jewelling is all glitter and no gore, like another sort which wb commonly associate with the journalists tod politicians of 6unny France. Miowera, which is now on an excursion trip in the north of Europe, ran ground at Aekervold on the coast of Norway, and tho passengers had to be Dnded on an uninhabited island. A scene occurred in tho Tasmanian AspemHy last night. A member named “cDooMd made some remarks which Were interpreted by another member Jamcd Gilmore to mean that he came ‘0 the colony as a con ?ict. Gilmore ®hock McDon.i'd in th) face, for which e was suspended for the remainder of flitting.

A clay pipe is about tho ODly thing that Homo artists can draw well.

It is not generally understood that a Magistrate has power to impose a fine of £SO or give six months’ imprisonment for disobedience of a maintenance order of the Court.

The treasurer of Tasmania proposes a duty of 10 per cent on books. In no other part of the Queen’s dominions ia a tax levied upon knowledge. Tasmania will therefore be unique in this regard. Some of the ocean steamers now carry air-tight steel caskets, for tho reception of the bodies of passengers who die in transit. They are nsod to convey tho bodies to the relatives, and to avoid burial at sea.

Some Scotchmen think that the person who cannot dance ought to die. The public schools of Dundee will hereafter teach their pupils to dance the Highland fling, the Strathspey, and other national daneee.

The largest telegraph office in tho world is in London, in the post office. In it there are over three thousand operators, constantly employed, about one-third of whom are women.

The writer who, in a woman’s weekly, speaks of a certain lady novelist rs ‘fixing her faith’ upon a certain creed, strays far from the path of verisimilitude. Did any one ever hear of a woman who ‘ fixed ’ her faith ? She pins it, of course ! The following advertisement adorns all the tramcars of Chicago : The person sitting under this card is one of our customers. He is very cranky and hard to please, hut as a dresser isn’t he a daisy ? Plymouth Rock Pants Co. The seven Raphael cartoons in South Kensington Museum, hitherto supposed to be the originals, owing to a find of similar cartoons in Russia, are now thought to bo merely copies. According to the estimates made for the current half-year, there will be by tho ond of next June a population in the 33 threat centres of England and Wales amounting to something like 10,500,000 persons, including tho inhabitants of London.

A man who had no home attempted to obtain shelter in a blacksmith’s shop at No wC’ißtle-on-Tyne recently by descending tho chimney. Ho got stuck fast in the middle, and next morning the chimney bad to bo pulled down to extricate him. Cockroaches are never wittingly killed by Chinamen. They consul r thorn sacred insects, and think It portends ill luck to stop os> thvm. As they never make noy effort to exterminate them, tho Chinese quarters arc usuafi\ : overrun with these pests.

In last three months 2000 persons set out to see if: marriage is a failure, 3600 made tracks for another place, and 10,000 emigrants came into tho world to see if life is worth living. According to tho Sydney Bulletin, among tho most inveterate gamblers in Sydney are a couple of blind men in a public institution. These men know every horse that runs at Raudwick or Rosebiil, his pedigree, his age, and his performances, though they lost their sight beforo any of tho quadrupeds began to run.