Bulletin Paragraphs.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 839, 13 March 1903, Page 2

Bulletin Paragraphs.

Menindie, Lower Darling, has had its first sight of a river steamer for 14 months. Dr Grace Russell, a New Zealander, is the first woman doctor to settle in College street, Sydney. She studied and took her degrees in London, and has been abroad nine years.

An Impossibility. Prisoner: “Have you seen me during the last 18 months ? ” The Sarjint : " How could we see you whin ye was surrounded be sthone walls ? ”

An English doctor, at a recent inquest on th,e body of a collier, said that deceased “ had the usual collier’s black lungs, and that his heart was as large as a bullock’s, while his kidneys and liver were ab normally distended.” Such growth and conditions, the doctor affirms, are peculiar to coal mining. The distinctive dress of the larrikin does not seem so apparent now as a few years ago, when tailors and bootmakers found it a lucrative business to provide the hoodlum with the peculiar outfit of his rank. One famous old-time larrikin paid £5 for his boots, upon the toe caps of each of which were let in the portraits of his noble self and his dnnab.

A Rapid Fertiliser. Mr Mumper (rushing in excitedly from the garden. : My dear, all those lovely Tsar violets are up,” Mrs Mumper : V Already ? Oh, how heavenly! It must be the eßect of this sunny weather.” Mr Mumper: “ No, Medusa, it’s the effect of Mr Smith’s fowls.”

This is the time of year when the weary South Australian, halting between two opinions, finally makes up bis mind that there isn’t enough to stay here for. There is hardly a year in which the summer don’t outnumber those of winter suicide. , ‘ko Adelaide aggregates by three to one ; „ for three years are 37 *0 la. " I James Conroy, mail-guard on tue N.S.W. Southern line, is probably one of ( the world’s most “ travelled ” men. As c driver of the mail coach from Campbell- t town in the old pre-railway days he ' travelled some 100,000 miles. Then dur- i ing 30 years’ service as mail-guard on the c Southern railway system he baa travelled I over 1,376,000 miles.