Pith rind Point.

Western Star, Issue 2218, 1 July 1898, Page 4

Pith rind Point.

Poets write few poems to their wives.

Women cry for the sake of emphasis ; men swear.

Mark Twain, like Edison, the electrician, has no belief in doctors.

Women may change their minds often, but not their hearts.

It is not what man has but what he hopes for that makes him happy.

.The panniers of 1720 were Oft. in diameter, and were made of cane hoops.

It is easier for a man to be just before he is generous than it is for a woman.

Observing barbers declare that men with heavy beards are most apt to he bald.

The Queen’s Scotch journeys cost her about £SOOO a year for travelling expenses.-

When a man’s good deeds speak for themselves he should not allow his voice to drown theirs.

Advice is like snow, the softer It falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

“ Pearson's” says that at school German Emperor used to be the worst dressed of all the hoys.

More than 1000 people earn a living in Paris by fortune-telling, and their total earnings are estimated at £400,000.

No man ever built a bicycle so perfect that every man who rode it did not think he .knew a dozen ways of improving it.

Twenty-three hundred and seventytwo employees are engaged in handling the annual output of Chicago’s Post' Office.

Mendelssohn never cared much for tha pleasures of the table. He said he could live for a week on a sausage and a loaf of bread.

A curious fact has been noted by Arctla travellers —snow when at a very low temperature absorbs moisture and dries< garments.

A young lady at a box party one night defined a chaperon as “ one who got out of the way whenever there was a chapi around.”

Convicts In the Missouri Penitentiary have corn bread for dinner every day in the week, except Sunday, when the; have wheat bread.

Dr. Johnson’s table manners were badf He ate with all his might of whatever, was handy, never waiting to see if others; had been served or not.

According to the Commander-in-Chiefl of India, 50,000 out of 70,000 men composing the army have been sent to the hos? pitals within two years.

Tlie Boston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals gives weekly lec-i tures to coachmen on the proper way to treat dumb animals.

The fatigue felt after exertion is now usually attributed to the presence, iiij tlie muscles and blood, of the chemical! products that result from action.

They are trying to invent a phono-* graphic desk on which a speaker cart record his own orations. This is to be Rested in tHe German Reichstag.

It Js the custom in Lima, Peru, to keep "aiii mals on the roofs of the houses., a ,'olf malv? s fust appearance on the roof never descends until it comes down as teef.

Compressed Oil is in r f las wl° t ch ing by French nu*milacAneis. vV Hchcrystals are made bj' S as nearly perfect as pu>wme, cutting Haws from it.

An unpublished letter of C>N l , t , ml;)US b addressed to two officers of the Ki.’*? of Aragon in 1493, was read at the last sCS~. siou of the Academy of Moral and Political Science, in Paris.

The Scriptures are to lie published by the Protestant Episcopal Church in the, classical VVenil language of China. The) translating has been in charge of Bishoy S. I. J. Schercschewsky.

The estate of Yaturino, the old historical residence of Mazeppa, the Het-i man of the Ukraine Cossacks in th(S Government of Kieff, once famous fori its beauty and splendour, has now falleis into ruin and decay.

Sir Robert Ball, the Astronomer Royal for Ireland, is said to believe that the time is approaching when posterity will he able to construct machinery that will be operated with heat obtained by thej direct action of the sun’s rays.

Tiie Mexican torch thistle, growing toa height of 50ft. or GOft., looks more like a candalabra than a tree. Another var-» iety of the same species has long gray bristles, which give it the appearance of the head of an old gray-haired man.

A hunting party organised by tliei Grand Duke Serget Micliallovitch in tin Kuban district of the Caucasus broughi to light the fact that the wooded anc secluded parts of that region are still inhabited by panthers and wild cattle. >,

The Marquis of Downshire has a strange bobby. He lias bad a complete railway, a mile and a-half in length, laid, down In his grounds by a London firm of small engine-builders. His lordship acts as his own engine-driver and stoker.

The Duke of Bedford, who some time ago purchased 'IOOO frogs and had tfiem turned into ids ponds near Woburn Abbey, lias just received another large consignment. The frogs rapidly diminished the insect life which abounded in the ponds.

A teachei requested her pupils to bring in three items of information about the neighbouring river that they could prove to be facts, and one little fellow contributed the following:—“I have lived near it ; 1 have sailed over it ; I have fallen into it.”

A Secret Powder.—Chinese dentists rub a secret powder on the gum over the affected tooth, and, after about five minutes, the patient is told to sneeze. The tooth then falls out. Many attempts nave been made by European dentists to secure this powder, but none have ever succeeded in doing so.

The well-known publisher Sonzogno claims twenty thousand lire forfeit from Leoncavalla for the non-delivery of an opera libretto according to contract. In bis answer the composer of “ I Pagliacci" states that he had delivered the libretto in question, “Le Tenebre,” within the time specified.

Three Virtues.—The three virtues of temperance, thrift, and religion, which are within the reafcli of every man, will secure, in this age, almost every desirable object for any family, and scores of objects which no legislation whatever can secure without individual temperance, thrift, and religion.

A Clever Invention.—One of the cleverest inventions ever patented is the machine for sticking common pins in the papers in which they are sold. The contrivance brings up the pins in rows, draws the paper in position, crimps it in two lines, then ar_a single push passes the pins through the paper and sets them in position.

Lady Violet Greville has been agitating for the Introduction of a code of honour among women. She says now that women are competing with men In their own professions, they must adopt the code of honour by which men are wont to act They must respect other people 3 secret's, and other people’s letters This code will want a great deal of ratifying.

Hell'- reliance. —For want of self-reliance ;.ila decision of character thousands are submerged in their first essays to make the voyage of life. Disappointed and chagrined at this, they underestimate their own capacities, and thenceforward, relying on others, they take and keep a subordinate position, from which they rise, when they rise at all, with the utmost difficulty.