HAND GRENADES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2123, 16 February 1886, Page 2

HAND GRENADES.

"r\Ks>eon some peculiar thing? in my time," said a merchant traveller, " but the queerest notion I ever came across was How n in Kansas last week. I was in a little tow n soiling some goods, and male a call at the '* general store,' the ihicf business p! ice of the village. There weie lots of countrymen coning and gonu there, and standing around and t \lUinj» crops, and horses, and politics. I noticed that a trood man}' of 'em lnvi<_r'\t thi-Mj hand grenade (ire extiuguisheis -some as mmy as a half do/en. That fctiuck me as hemi! a little curious, and so i inquired of the stotekt'epLi*. 'Oil, that's all right !' ho said : ' they us-- cm to put out prairie fires w ith.' That didn't quite satisfy me, anil so I tackled a farmer on the sidewalk, and asked him what he was going to do with the hind grenides. 'I'm buyine these to put in our sehoolhouse,' he said. Thinks I, that's a little funny, and so I made enrpiiiy of an old chap whom I had met on a former trip, and knew to be a dencou in the chunh, and a shining light in his community. 'Well,' he says, in response to my inquiry, but a little confnspil like, 'we thought it would be a idea to have some in our meetin', in ea&t? of fire ' Just then I stepped around to the back end of the store, to sec a new threshing machine, and, would you believe it? there, between two big corn cribs, was a countryman with one of these fire "extinguishers to his mouth drinking out of it : ' Great heavens man !' I exclaimed. ' tint will kill you !' ' That's all light, .stianger,' he replied, with a "tin ; 'you can hue your little joke, if you want it, but I 'spect yer come out after a snifter. The prohibitionists are right smart strict in this town, ye know. Try a little of the gin, eh.' "—Chicago Herald.

Liit of \ii-itors to Te Aroha Baths last week : Mi C. Peters, Mr W. Lymw, Mr fiordi m, Thames ; Mr Mrs, and Miss Brigham, Mi^ HaMed, Mr A. Taylor, Mrs T.ivl"r, Mi> Taylor, senr., Honorable Sir (4.M. ORr »ke, Mrs arid Mrs, Menarys, Mr Hudson, Dihtiiot Traffic Manner of Railways, Mr McCawley, Auckland ; Mr and Mrs L<3\vis<, 2 children and nurse, Mr Simpson, Cunbiidge: Mr Humphries, Mr C. Comes Mr Wm. Cornos, Karangahake ; Mr and Mis* R<>bb, Mr and Miss Wye, Onelumara ; Mr H. Miller Mr A. Miller Kihikihi; Re\. O.H. Knowlys, Knglnnd ; Mr J .Clark, (iNborne; Mr, Mrs and Miss Edtnond, Dunediu ; Mr A. 1). Raymond, Tasmania ; Mr Taggart, Hawke's Bay, etc. Mr Minchall , England ;Mr Buckby, Mr Mayers, Mr and Mrs Porter and children, Mr Einlinaon, Mr Hall, Mr Fidler., Mr Tisdala, Mr Bedford, Mr Hales Mr Chield, Mrs White and 2 children, Mn» Brown, Mr and Mrs Phillips, Mr Ehrenfried and friend, Mr» Jagger, Mr Fouler, Auckland ; Mr Tapley, Paeioa; Mr and Mrs Halley, Mr Sautter, Mr Reynolds Cambridge ; Mr Maihhall, Mr Humphries, Mr Keskett, Thames : Mr U. M. Beere, Hamilton ; Mr Bank", Thames, etc. Mr McMullen, Mrs R. Blair, Mr T. Farley, Mr and Mrs Healkelfoid, Mrs and Mr Darby, Miss Carton, Mrs Walters, Mr and Mrs Phillips, Auckland ; Mr Clarkin, Miss L. Brown Hamilton : Mr Sim, Scotland ; Mrs Bettis and Family, Mi'-n Vhlemiiiff, Mr J. Banks, Thames : Miss White, Pakuranga : Mr Clirke, (iisborne ; Mrs and Miss Robinson, i\lr nnd Mrs J. D. Davis, Auckland ; Mr Mr Thomas, Mr Lord, Ohehunga. Mr \V Kattray, Aurkland, inserts an impo (ant adver ; semcat in this issue. MrJ. R E. .Hatnck, Hamilton, publishes a prire list of goods in another column. Lmrge sum of money to lend. Apply Mr f. B. WLyte or Mr J. S. Bdgccumbe. Several alterjtioni in Air HucUand's sale ad\erti';oment will be found in another column. Mr I F. Cocks will sell at P-icroa, on Friday, heavj draunlit horses, hacks, dr. i> sand harness, store and fat ca'tle, SiC. Mr C. J. Lake is authorised to receive all accounts owinsr to the N. Z. S. and P. Co. on account of horse services by any of the company's stallions. Tenders for the erection of a separata classroom at the Cambridge School are Invited by tke Board of Education. Mr P Le - (juesne notifies bis intention to ap- | ply foratrinsfcr of the license of the Waikato Hotel to Mr A. G. bright. Messrs A tiara La) bourn and Co.. announce the -irrhil their new season's seeds, manures, fcncinar wire, ke , ie Messrs Lewis and Simpson, Cambridge, advertise that thoy have Walker's patent rollers for sil<-. Xor \ Hi w uai.c."— "lhey are not abevcrasro, but .i medicine, with curative properties of the highest decree, containing no poisonous driiirs They do not tear down ar> already (lebiii'.-ited s)stera, but build it up. One bottle contains more real hop strength than a barrel of ordinary beer Physicians prescribe them.— j Rochester U S.A., Evening Press, op, American, Hop Hitters..