Briers.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2079, 10 June 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

Briers.

An old stone well by a country road, Hough and ragged and moss o'tr-grown ; The dainty pink of a sweet-brier rose. ’Mid delicate hues of green and brown.

Sometimes a snnbcara wanders down Through tbe maple leaves to the rose be. ncalli, Wooed from above by the maple’s sheen, And the faintest hint of the sweethriers breath.

And over the wall a pale tea rose, Fair to sec on the smooth green lawn, Where the sunbeams linger till night has

come, From the first dim light of the early dawn. “ Dear Fortune, banish the gloom from my pathway,” The sweet-brier murmurs within the glade. “ Kind Heaven, recall thy lasting sunlight.” The tea rose prays, ‘* for the brier’s shade." Ah J one would tire of the sweetest niiisie, It the echoing chords would never cease. Love’s sunbeams struggling through the dai kness, Bring full content and perfect peace. In a paper on the rule of the road from a scientific* point of view, Mr. (ieorge Campbell, a member of the British I’ariiament, maintains that the most natural and convenient method for all right handed people is to turn to the left on meeting others in the road, as is done in lireat Britain. He opposes the proposition to make a change in England. Lightning Statistics iu England anil Germany tend to show that oaks are more often struck by lightning than any other kind of trees. It is a popular notion that they eontain iron, which exercises an attractive influence. also seems to have a peculiar affinity for elms as compared with most other trees.

The Caroline Islands, in the pacific ocean, which have lately been the subject of acrimonious controversy between Germany and Spaiu, consist of forty eight real islands, or live hundred islands if the atolls or ringlike coral formations of all sizes arc includes!. The population is from eighteen to twenty thousand.

Another Want UnflUkA— There has just died iu Paris a journalist whose special aim was to publish periodicals for people of undeveloped or over-ripe intellects. “The Monitor lor Maniacs” and “ The Journal for Idiots” were amongst the title*of hie failures, the very large class which be was ready to serve not being at all responsive to his appeals. Death is natural to a ms a, sat slavery nanatural; and tbs moment yea strip him ot bis Hbsity you strip bim of all his vwiss, not son vert bis bsart into a dark bah. fas which all tbs vices maspirs against yea. mT