Brief Mention.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3108, 4 August 1894, Page 3

Brief Mention.

What is a marriageable wage for New Zealand. Herod’s daughter was tho first woman to get ahead of a man. Every male elephant is liable to insanity some time or other. The cost of the Suez Canal was £8,000,000. Believe only half you hoar, hut be sure you select the right half. Among flowors chrysanthemums live the longest after being cut. Heavy fall of snow iu New South Wales.

Mrs Needle has been committed for trial on tho charge of poisoning. The cost of the general election in N.S.W., reached nearly £22,000. There were 1300 casos of influenza recorded in Nelson last week. Woodvillo people are agitating for a gravitation water supply. Three Timaru milkmen wore yesterday fined £1 and costs 15s, for watering milk. About 200 traction engines in Canterbury—a formidable rival to the railways. Thrice is he armed who has his quarrel just, but six times he who gets his blow iu fust. Mildura settlement will produce enough raisins this year to supply the Victorian demand.

A valuable trade in dairy produce is likely to develop between New South Wales and Cape Colony. Rumoured that the debato on the Financial Statement is likely to last over a fortnight. “ A tallow candle would shame tho electric light of Wellington.” So says Councillor Harris. There are known to be between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 total abstainers iu England. A hunchback, tho father of forty-one children, has just met with an accidental death in America. It is estimated that tho number of working peoplo, male and femalo, in the German Empire, is 10,500,000. Bishop Konnion loaves Adelaide next month to take charge of tho See of Bath and Wells. It costs the Water Supply Board of Syduey £IBOO a year to collect overdue rates. It is said that the Labor party will support the recently formed NS.VV. Ministry. Tho soil of Uruguay is so fortile that Indian corn is often harvested at the rate of 100 bushels for every bushel sown. Burglars stole £IO,OOO worth of jewellery from the Princess Soetikoff’s

residence at Slough, ou Thursday. Sir Henry Parkes declined to attend a banquet given in honor of Mr G. II Roid, tho now Premier of New South Wales. The Licensed Victuallers’ Associa-

tion claim a decided majority in the new N.S W. House favorable to compensation.

In tho recent N.S.W., elections Sir Henry Parkes polled 1028 votes against 984 votes recorded for his four opponents. Of tho new N.S.W., Parliament only 74 old members havo been returned. The House consists of 125 members.

At Tauranga the other day a horse died of fright immediately after a traction engine had passed tho paddock in which it was grazing. Persons are earnestly requested not to laugh and jeer at tho Liberalism of the present Ministry. It’s really not a laughing mattor. Indeed it is not. Force of Habit.—Friend (calling on dentist) : “My head aches terribly.” Dentist (absent rnindedly) : “ Why don’t you have it out ?” “ How does your girl treat you, John?” asked the mother. “ She doesn’t treat m© at all, mother : I am obliged to treat her every time.” Perhaps there is something in the notion that under tho circumstances a particularly bright girl can do without a light in tho parlor. The Queen purchases almost every new book of note published, and her expenditure on literature of all sorts is over £1,200 per annum. Tnere are far too many men who agitate aud rant about an eight hours day, who do not hesitate or scruple to work their wives twelve or fourteen hours per day. Lady : “ Are you not rather small for a nurse ?” Bridget : “ Oh, that won’t make no difference, mum ; the baby’ll hurt himself less when I let him fall ” The Grand Mass in St. Mary’s Cathedral in connection with President Carnot’s death was tho most imposing ceremony of the kind yet seen in Sydney. Ontario is a great contre for fruitgrowers. There are 7,000.000 apple trees, 2,000,000 grape vinos, 700,000 plum trees, besides many thousands of poach and cherry trees Inspector Lenthall says it is a common thing in Australia for publicans to mix free sulphuric acid with their spirits. No wonder so many drinkers got tho “ jam

For biliousness squeeze the juice of a lime or small lemon into a half glass of cold water, than stir in a little baking soda, and drink while it foams. Tho ro ceipt will also rcliove sick hoadacho if taken at tho beginning. An action has been taken by Bam Ah Dore, a well known Chinese coursing man, against “ Doctor ” Lamsoy, tho head of tho Chinese community at Bendigo, for £SOO damages for alleged slander. The matter arose out of business transactions. According to the Rev Mr Baumbor, a Wesleyan minister, there nro “ more men affected by tho curso of gambling than by the drink evil. There were throe gamblers to one drunkard.”

The life of an American millionaire is not altogether such a rosy one as one might expect. The new Vanderbilt bouses are expressly fortified against Anarchists, and rifles are provided in convenient places, ready for a garrison of servants to keep a mob at bay.

A physician recently lecturing upon physical exertion declared that if only twenty minutes a day were spent in physical exercise as an adjunct to mental education most people ruight live to seventy without a day’s illness, and perhaps prolong their lives to 100 years. Mr J. C. Watson (who served his time in the Oamaru Mail office, and whose parents formerly resided at Windsor, near Oamaru) is one of the new Labor members in the New South Wales Legislature. It is stated that the electric installation in connection with Messrs Horderu’s establishment is the largest in Australia. No less than 2700 lamps have already been provided for, and there is sufficient power for 3000 lamps.

This is what the Government analyst says of a sample of whisky sent to him recently by the Sydney police :—The liquid was an artificial preparation composed of about equal parts of partially rectified white spirit and water, the mix ture being colored with an aniline dye injurious to health.

A peculiar bar to tho marriage of two half-castes from the Framglingham (Vic ) aboriginal camp arose recently. Tho contracting parties went to the residence of a clergyman, who could not celebrate the marriage as tho prospective bridegroom failed to answer the question—“ What is your mother’s name ?”

Considering his age, the Pope is iu excellent health, but all that can be is done to spare him fatigue, to which he is easily subject. Tho mitre ho wears when he appears in St. Peter’s on ceremonious occasions is a facsimile in painted silk of the real mitre, and even the apostolic and other rings he wears are made as light in weight as custom will permit.