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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1240, 5 February 1872, Page 2

Alcohol was first invented, and used to stain the cheeks of the ladies of Arabja, 920 years ago. It still reddens portions ol the human face.

An American author has reason to believe .that when the wages of the mechanics are raised to eight or ten dollars a-day, the workmen will not come at all—they will merely send their cards.

Melting up bricks and old crockery, and selling them for Chicago relics, is an extensive branch of industry at Detroit.

Conversation is the daughter of reasoning, the mother of knowledge, the, breath of the soul, the commerce of hearts, the bond of friendship, the nourishment of content, and the occupation of men of wit.

A carpenter, beiDg asked for a liddle, propounded the following : " f picked it up, I couldn't find it; I put it down, and went along with it." No one could guess it. It was a splinter in his foot.

A Chicago girl wrote to her lover in Springfield, Mass, just after the tire, saying : " Our wedding-day was set for next week, and if you will stand up with a woman dressed in a cotton skirl and her father's overcoat, come on." The brave youth telegraphed in reply : " Get ready. I will be with you." Thompson is mi going to do anything more in conundrums. He asked his wife recently the difference betwecrj. his head and a hogshead, and she said there was none. He savs that is net the right answer.

Can you realise Mrs Malaprop's bewilderment at hearing her grandson, read an article in .the. paper about &orue, —'The ground is so parched that it is fuli oi" fishers'?

Charles G. Leland, the original " Hans Breitmann," now resident in London, is about to publish a, new volnnio of poems of his own, besides a translation of the humorous poems of Scheffel, under the title " Gaudeamus.''

Great interest is taljen in England in ballad literature. A society has been established in London to collect and publish those that have been sung. It promises to give at any early day the collection made by Popys, now in the ljbiary of Magdalen College. A tailor's apprentice, who seemed to be pained a good deal by the crossleg attitude, asked how he liked tailoring, to which he replied, " Very well; but T believe I shall never be able to stand sitting." A dyspeptic lead that by sending a dollar by mail he would receive a cure for dyspepsia. He sent the money, and received a slip with the following printed on it, * Stop drinking and hoe in the garden.' The man was mad at first, then laughed, and finally went hoeing, and stopped 4i'i"knag } and is as well as ever.

I Seven hundred girl? are employed in \ the cartridge factory at Woolwich Arj serial, and their number will shortly he I largely increased. I Ln the Elgin (United Sta<es) watch factories, 300 of the 500 employees are I girls. These girls earn from 10 to 20 ' dollais a week, and perform the delicate operations incideu't to the business . more .skilfully than men.