Varieties.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 410, 17 March 1904, Page 7

Varieties.

. ~ , A RUSSIAN WEDDING. gf&g RUSSIAN bride has a very much fSralj more trying time, on her «reddiag IJJaJg .day tHan has her English, slater, for she must fast until after the ceremony is over, and that after enduring the trials of- ; .a 'fare-veil party' theday before. 'Aa the wedding, to be fashionable, must not take piaca till the evening, ifc is easy to imagine in what aa exhausted state the bride often enters on her new life. Besides bridesmaids, there are also bridesmen, who have to provide the bridesmaids with sweet meats. The number of bridesmaids is unlimited, aha they are not dressed alike. Following the bridal, procession is earned a picture, in gold land .silver, of GhtUt, which is stationed agaißßt tiw altar, si? The bride's old nurse plays an important role on the wedding day, for to her is entrusted the removal of the brida's dowry from her father's house to that of her future husband.

/ , BULLETS. • •I--gather from an evening paper that somebody has discovered a method of .guiding ballets in.their flight. You stand behind a house and the inventor fires at iybutShis bullet goes round two corners and jewels you in one hole. The dumdum ballet has met with criticism;, the explosive bullet has been definitely barred; but they both ase the mild instruments of Christian warfare as compared with a will go squirming up'a corkscrew staircase and kill a man on the top step. It practically does away with all the advantages wuich one may. fairly expect to derive from going round the corner, advantages which belong, to the universal prerogative of humanity, and aire not lightly to be sacrificed. The, new invention is barbarous, and not original. The boomerang has been in that crooked line of business for a long time, but -one expects a bullet to keep straight. That inventor should be certainly kept in the back-shop during the coming war.— B. Payne; ; |. . ,> .«;■<- ...: THE GLIM AX;' f T In connection, with the Bariicz centenary a writer in the ' Moßical Times' gives an amusing sketch of his composer •as he knew him in his young days. When Berlioz took tip music as a profession he was cast adrift by his parents, and had to pick up a precarious livelihood by singing in the chores of one of the minor Parisian theatres. He used to frequent a certain Bohemian cafe, where he. was encountered one night by the friend in question, his pockets stuffed with the manuscript scores of numerous unperformed overtures and dramatic scenes. Some of these heproduced for his friend's edification, and amid the fames of tobacco and the rattle of dominoes endeavoured to convey- some notion of the music by singing the various motives. &.s he went on he grew more and more excited, and at last, exclaiming, Voila le climax!' brought down his fist upon the table,' smashing all the crockery within re*oh J

Porcelain dishes yhiohffiMtve "hecomej cracked, may ba ' rendered again by drying:* completely i»«,. {warm place, after, a solajlao^ypl water-glaßß ig to be|poWSa%' arid* allowed to stand over night. It is then poured off and the adherent- film permitted to dry slowly.