Miscellancons.

Wairarapa Standard, Issue 2067, 13 May 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Miscellancons.

Brown Eyer

Juat the ohi, old story, Of light and shado : Love like the violet tender, Like it, may be to vary— May be to fade. Just the old tender story, Just a glimpse of morning "lory, In an earthly paradise, With shadowy reflections In a pair of sweet brown eyes, Crown eyes a man might well Cc proud to win 1 Open to hold his image, Shut under silken lashes, Only to shut him in. Oh, glad eyes look together, For life’s dark stormy weather Grows to a fairer thing, When young eyes look ujKm it Through a tiny wedding ring. They stood above the world, In a world apart, And she drooped her happy eyes And stilled the throbbing pulses Of her happy heart, And the moonlight fell above her, Her secret to discover; And the moonbeams kissed her hair, As though no human lover Had laid his kisses there. “ Look up, brown eyes," he said, ‘‘ And answer mine; Lift up those silken hinges That hide a happy light Almost divine.” The jealous moonlight drifted To the finger half uplifted, Where shone the opal ring— Where the colors danced and shifted On the pretty, changeful thing.

Astonished Brum. —A Westernflsberman who bad imprudently made captive a bear's cub which he had encountered in the woods, was pursued by the cub's mother. The fisherman dropped the cub very soon, but this act failed to placate or divert the attention of the parent bear, which pressed him hotly. At one moment she was so close that she was enabled to secure amonthtul of the fugitive’s apparel. His strength was fast giving way, and the bear betrayed no signs of fatigue or of relenting, when the fisherman bethought him of an experiment. He had heard that the most ferocious of wild animals were subdued and terrified by fire, and drawing a newspaper from his pocket, he touched a match to it, and dashed it burning into the bears face. The effect was magical. The bear rolled over and over, screaming with terror, and on regaining her feet forsook the ■field with astonishing rapidity. A newspaper which prints this story facetiously heads it, “ The Power of the Press.’’

On the Farm- —Let the children earn money as soon as they can. If it is only a little—one egg for every dozen they find, pay for carrying the milk, a few pence per week for washing dishes, or bringing in the wood, or coal, or kindlings ; so much for every towel they hem; or they may keep hens of their own, or a pig, or care for their own calf along with the other cattle—bow much more interest they will take I There are an infinite number of ways in which a child can cam money, and that, too, without paying him for his little kindnesses to the home people, either; and, then, be has nn almost inexpressible feeling of pride and independence when he buys something with his own earnings. There is no better servant in the world than this same money; but to be of most use, it must be rightly managed, and only experience can teach that lesson properly.

Metallic Telegraph Poles.— One of the strongest metallic telegraph poles yet devised is constructed of malleable galvanized iron, and is one and one half inches diameter at the top, two and one fourth inches at the bottom, and weighing less than fifty pounds. The bottom of the pole is set into a claw plate, upon which the earth is closelv packed to a height of about two feet; then another plate is put into place around the pole, and the earth packed upon it to the level of the ground. The claw plates take a bold in the ground at once, so that the pole becomes solidly fixed immediately after being set, which desideratum is only obtained by the ordinary wooden pole after it has been in the ground for at least a year. The strength of this pole is proved by tests to be very great.

The Cost of Her Beauty— An old lady orcr eighty years of age, ami who was once a great beauty, died recently in I’aris, leaving after her a diary in which she endeavors to show up the alleged vanity of women. From the ago of twenty to ’thirty she spent three hours a day nt her toilet, which foots up for the period one year ninety one days and six hours employed in dressing her hair, powdering her checks and painting her lips. From thirty to fifty the toilet labors amounted to five hours a day, the extra hours being consecrated to covering up the cracks of time, including the obltcration of crows' feet and other necessary lillingin and grading. Time, four years and forty days. After fifty her efforts had to he redoubled. To the last she resisted the effects of time.