Miscellaneous Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 53, 31 October 1891, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items

A, New Caledonian official has a large aboard complet,ely covered with what looks like pieces of parchment with "blue drawings' thereon. These items consist of ' artistic tattoo-marks cut from the hides of ' decapitate* convicts, and stuck on the board while still warm. 'A queer mistake happened in Sydney the other day. An admirer of a lady who was about to marry a very frisky old gentleman, went to a well- known jeweller's and paid 100 guineas for a J diamond bracelet which he asked should be sent to the lady asa wedding-present. T&e.'jeweller in mistake ioiwarded the valuable gift, not to the. -pur chaser's friend, bnt io another lady who had just got married , The latter, needless to say cordially accepted theliandsome gift, and in .writing her note of thanks "effusively regretted that the donor had not been' included in. the list of invitations. The bracelet has- now reached its proper destination, — Bulletin. ; The value.of bran as fodder, remarks the Melbourne Leader, is' very much underestimated. Our ordinary horse stock, and even our racehorses, would be much healthier had "they or even five times as much bran as they now get. For milking cows, especially in dry weather, it is one of the best fodders you can give. Sheep fatten, splendidly on it as. do pigs, especially with, boiled turnips or potatoes J3oiled maize and >bran is one of the -best foods you-,cangive cart horse stock^ ffere 'it is arhigh price, very seldom it is_under Is per bushel,, but even { then- it is T cheaper than f hay at 5s 6d per cwt. It -is good for i fowls, as is sharps, this latter 'being fine food for pigs.