ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 244, 19 November 1878, Page 3

ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

(Collated from our Exchanges.)

Some fine trout have been caught in an Artificial pond near Timaru. Concerning this find, a local paper says:—" Many perBons have been suffering under the delusion that trout could not live in our artificial ponds, and that it would be useless to put them anywhere but in a river or creek. The above instance, however, shows the fallacy of this impression, and now that the contrary has been proved, we hope fanners and land owners will avail themselves of the knowledge they have thus obtained."

A curious case of illness occurred at (Jeraldine on Tuesday. A boy named Wallace Tester, in the employ of Mrs Grimmer, storekeeper, was seized with an illness eomewhat resembling an apoplecticfit. Soon after the seizure he became so ■violent that it required four men to hold him. During these paroxysms he barked, bit, growled, and lapped water, and behaved ■exactly like a ferocious dog. After a few hours he became less violent, although the -above symptoms returned periodically, with diminished force. The boy had been out in the sun in the day, and_ the heat is supposed to have afiected him in some way. We have known men to be affected with some of these symptoms from having been " ont in the sun."

An illicit still has been discovered on the Manawatu river, about six miles from Palmerston. It appears that two men named Fritz Yon Snhluter and Levi Buck liad been engaged on a bush-felling contract in this locality, and it.was close to a slab hut, erected by them at the site of their contract that the still was discovered hidden in the bush only a fewyards from the clearing. The men in question were arrested, and, on conviction, fined £100 each or twelve months' imprisonment. . An exchange says a new way of fastening ladies' hats is to bore the tops of their ears, put in gold loops, and have the hatstrings through them. Thus, step by step, we tread the pathway to perfection, and ere the darkness of death envelopes all the world, man will have utilised his nose in holding up hie pants or pulling off his boots. *

Now that Parliament has been prorogued, it is expected that the sea-serpent will be heard of immediately. Perhaps, as Mr Fitzroy would say, it would be mo-ah to the purpose to get up a good yarn about the rnoa.

Mnjor Wilson, speaking at the late meeting of the British Association in reference to the causes of the unhealthjnessof Cyprus, said :— '■ One of these is the wholesale destruction of the fine forests which w>re once llie glory of the island. Under the Turks, everybody cut down what he wanted, and nobody thought of'planting, and the work ot deforesting was completed by Mehemet AH, who, to serve the requirements of Egypt, cut down nearly every tree." This corroborates the remarks in the last leader as to the importance of attending to our woods. There would be greater chance of their being seen to were there less timber in both Houses. Wooden heads are in the majority. The Assembly Catechism.—The numeber of questions asked of Ministers during the Session was 434. It cannot be said to have been " The Shorter Catechism."

On Sunday last, at St. Joseph's Church, Dunedin, the Most Rev. Dr Moran delivered an eulogistic address on the late Archbishop of Dublin, Cardinal Cullen. The Bishop spoke in glowing terms of the deceased Prelate's character, and paid a high tribute to his patriotism and zeal. The church was crowded on the occasion.

A firm recently sent a lot of bills out for collection. The list came back with the result noted against each name, one being "dead." Three months after, the same bill got into a new lot that was forwarded, and when the list came back the name was marked " Still dead."

A noted sharper, wishing to ingratiate himself with a clergyman, said— , ' Parson, I should like to hear you preach, more than I can tell you." " Well," responded the clergyman, "if you had been where you ought to have been last Sunday, you would have heard me." " Where was that," asked the sharper. 'In the county gaol," was the reply.