Odds and Ends from all Quarters.

Hastings Standard, Issue 7, 4 May 1896, Page 4

Odds and Ends from all Quarters.

Tlv 'i- . • ■ miiese ntw.-p-iper appeared oai.'. *years :i.*n, and it was put>ii»ut:u monthly by a dru-rgist as an advertising medium. Now there are more than four hundred journals in the realm of the Mikado. Astronomers tell lis that if a man fell from a ballon five or six miles high he would never hit the ground, because he would be going so fast by the time lie got near the earth that he would be vaporised by the heat from the friction. "I came across one of your old letters to-day George, in yliich you said you would rather be in endless torment with lufl than in bliss by yourself." said Mrs Mayan to her hutband. " Well, my dearest, I got my wish," said the brute. The accumulation of wealth is followed by an r:er«.»-ie of care, and by an appetite for more, lie who seeks for much will ever be in want of much. It is best with him to whom God has given that which is sufficient, though every superfluity be withheld. In Austria, if a sprig of mistletoe he placed on a bedroom door, it is believed that the inmates will have sweet sleep and no uLLft:; -w. Pip'- :' •> ;.nd "-ill. . :Mixed to a stiff _ paste awl laid on tin- «+f> t n,rd portions and t-> «irv. v-iil ]£■:>.! »« oil from a i.i« t 1 e over our feUowm<n> .> ;o ">»••*. c!.:u.;y towards tb« .. i. ' . lying rich dividends. The difference between a fine landscape and a vegetable stew is, one is superb and the other is herb soup. Those who believe that the world owes them a living don't know how many bad debts the tiling has to shoul dor. The circumstances of *• A black man who turned whitein the South recently is explained. A man named White threw him in a wrestle, but he make a sudden effort and turned White. Gold is yellow only by reflected light. If a leaf of gold, as ordinarily used by gilders, be placed between two pieces of glass, and held op to the lii;ht. it will be seen to transmit a green light. The St. Pancras Vestry on the 11th March adopted the health Committee's recommendation to ask the Local Government Board to promote legislation providing for the registration of vendors of ice-creams, and for the regulation of the trade of by-laws, and proper supervision of the making and supplying of ice-creams. From an analytical report it appeared that in addition to the objectionable materials of which many ice-creams were composed, and the unhealthy conditions under which they were made, the water used for various purposes in connection with she business was very often foul. Whereas in good drinking' water there were rarely more than 100 bacteria per "jic centimetre, in three samples of iceoin watrr which were analysed they c0ntained4.'200.000.2.150,000. » "i -HO 000 bacteria. The committee i - of ommon that the filthy conditions ! u winch cheap ice-creams were ► 1 constituted a public danger, and t -»» 1\ a danger to the health of the it i f the poorer classes, by whom the uf (f» (in- were rnainlv consumed.