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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue XIX, 7 May 1898, Page 567

A club of the jilted is a social organisation in the city of New York which after an existence of seven years has applied to the Supreme Court for articles cf incorporation. One of the rules of the club requires that each applicant shall give the name and address of the lady who jilted him. the reason for the jilt, as well as the length of the engagement. These particulars ;vro turned- over to tin investigating committee, and if they find the facts are as stated, the candidate is admitted.

The question of the production of a pure non-alcoholic wine has been often tried but not. so far. with any great amount of success. The latest competitors for public favour, with a wine which teetotallers could use. is the First Swiss Wine (Sans Alcohol) Co.. Ltd., whose head-quarters are at Berne. M hat we have seen of the wine is of good colour and of pleasant taste, and the company guarantee that it is made from selected grapes, and is destitute of alcohol. The latter point is effected by a special patent sterilisation process, invented by Prof. Muller-Thurgaun. by which fermentation is arrested. Their ‘Juliet’ brand of champagne has a sparkle like ordinary champagne, and tastes not unlike some of the brands of the finest champagne drunk in France, there being in the wine a considerable quantity of saccharine of a nutritive value. Not so Bad.—Ethel: ‘So poor Tom Slapbang had four ribs broken in the game yesterday. Wasn't that awful?' College Half-back (cheerfully>: 'Oh. no; there was only three minutes left to play, so it did not materially affect the score.'