BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 77, 3 April 1902, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

Cecil Bhodeb's remains to be interred on the 18th inst. The Queen Victoria Memorial Fund at the Mansion House now amounts to £189,000. There is only one unhappiness in life; the death of what one loves. — Madame de Stael. A rhubarb leaf grown in Dannevirke was 2ft lOin across, the stalk being 19in long and 7^in round. Twelve vessels were wrecked on the coast of New South Wales last year, invoicing the loss of 14 lives. No Excursion.—''l see by the paper that Jones, who died yesterday, left two sons and three daughters." " Well, you didn't expect him to take his whole family with him, did you?" It is reported that a young man who until recently resided in Masterton is laying claim to an earldom, which carries with it substantial means, Nearly 300 applications have been received by the Education Department lor twenty teacherships in the JBoer concentration camps in South Africa. It is probable that others will come in within the next two or three days. A married woman named Sophia Glasset was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital in a poisoned condition. It appeared that she had been taking an "anti-fat" preparation, which is alleged to have poisoned her. Mrs Glassefc is in a serious state. Under the present Education Act, the fines for irregular attendance may be handed o^er to the school committees. It is stated that the police in New Zealand are still on t-he look-out for the man who perpetrated the Colchester murder. The express train stops for three minutes at a little station on the NapierWellington line. One day this week, as the guard was about to place his whistle in his mouth to signal the driver to start, a Maori hastily rushed up to him. " Don't brow te whistle, don't brow te whistle," he breathlessly cried, *'my brudder be along in ten minutes. I come to tell you he make haate to get aready!" Strychnine sufficient to kill a man would have no effect on a snail, declared Professor Maefadyen, when lecturing at the Royal,.lnstitution. «'I suffer from 'locomotive attacky,'" pleaded a prisoner when Charged at Stratford with being drunk and incapable. He was discharged. The smallest things often bring forfjunes to lucky inventors. "DanclDf

j Jim Crow" yielded £15,000 a year; , " Pharaoh's Serpents." £10,000 ; J "Pigs in Clover," "The Return 1 Ball," "Needle-threader," "Pencilsharpener," all produced fortunes. A rabbiter named Alex. Munroe is * making some big catches on Morton Mains. So far this season his daily take averages over 200. In four sucb cessive nights he averaged 230. His " "record" tally was 238. Trapping * pays handsomely on this basis.—Wynd- " ham Farmer. 7 The Milling Trust is claimed to be a } good thing for the Auckland Northern Roller Mills. It is stated the mills have plenty of orders, and have been able to buy some of the competition flour sent up to Auckland at cutting prices, re ship it south, and re-sell at ! a profit, ? The ascent of the Weisshorn by a , young Englishman named Ryan, only I eighteen years old, has created a good I deal of interest", in Switzerland. He . was accompanied by three guides. It i was so cold at the great hoighfc that i I the champagne they had brought with . them froze solid, and they had to eat ; it instead of drinking it. > Tho magistrate at FeildiDg, in inflicticg a fine of 40s and costs, in default seven days' imprisonment, on a > lad for ill-treatment of a horse, re- * marked that the case was an unusual - one—the lad being charged on the information of his own father. Some smart work in the slaughter- " ing, freezing, and despatching of a J 1 consignment of 700 lambs was executed 1 at Mataura Freezing Works last week. The lambs were killed on Tuesday, ' and were in the freezing hold of the J s.s. Perthshire at the Bluff on Thursday. A daisy has, it is said, been produced . in California measuring more than one > foot in circumference, and with three i or more rows of petals of purest white. s The new daisy is very hardy, easily . grown, and an extremely free bloomer. ; It has been named the " Shasta daisy,'' r and the grower who originated it, Luther Burbank, says that it was obtained by crossing the common American field daisy with the Japanese and r European kinds. While three Glenorchy residents were eeling at the Head of Lake Waka- [ tipu, a monster eel, nearly 4ft long, was either hooked up or caught by some means. Upon opening the fish the men found in its stomach no less than 15 trout of various sizes. Eels I are known to hunt down the fish and > eat them, but to find that such a demoL lition of the lake trout is going on must [■' be appalling to even the casual obi server. i A laugh was occasioned at the Mact kenzie County Council lately, when a 1 member reported one of the objections ' offered to the order to remove pigstyes from certain parts of the township of Fairlie: " Some of us were brought up with pigs under the table, and you will not allow us to have them in the backyard." The Independanee Beige states that 1 a curious marriage was recently celebrated at Grocholetz, in Poland, where a peasant at the age of eighty-eight led to the alter a maiden of eighteen summers. Among the 200 guests invited to the wedding were eleven sons of the bridegroom by former marriages, the eldest being sixty years old and the youngest forty-one. There were also sixty-three grandchildren, thirty-nine great-grandchildren, twenty-one children of the fourth generation, and four of the fifth. Worms undermine Children's constitutions. Use Wade's Worm Figs, Is boxes. AN IMPORTANT "IF." If you don't have a healthy movement of the bowels once a day, you are ill, or will be very soon. .This is a provision of nature. If the bowels are clogged, the whole system is soon thrown out of condition. The foundation of disease is constipation, and truly constipation kills more people than all other diseases put together. The foetid matter throws off poisons which get into the blood, the digestive organs become impaired, and one thing leads to another. If—. Take Impey's May Apple and there will be no doubt. This ideal family medicine acts promptly but painlessly, keeps the bowels open and regular, stimulates the liver, and aids digestion. It does good all the way. Chemists and stores, 2s6d. .