Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 26 May 1892, Page 3

Notes and Events.

A very amusing story is related by a writer in an English sporting paper in which he tells of an intelligent Japanese accompanying some English friends to the races. The system of betting was expounded to him and everything lucidly explained. The Jap seemed much interested in watching proceedings and then asked, motioning to the bookmakers, what do you call those who shout ! He was told they were the layers of the odds. When do the others shout ? he went on to inquire, and his informant told him that the others seldom shouted. He paused a moment and looking toward the betting enclosure remarked with a bland smile, " I join those who shout ! If they come every day and do so all the time they must get money for it, or they would not do it."

At a recent Sunday school service a clergyman was explaining to a number of smart little urchins the necessity of Christian profession in order properly to enjoy the blessings of Providence in this world, and, to make it apparent to the youthful mind, he said, " For instance, I want to introduce water into my house, I turn it on. The pipes and faucets and every convenience are in good working order, but I get no water ?" He expected the children to see that it was because he had not made connection with the main in the street. The boys looked perplexed They could not see why the water should refuse to run into his premises after such faultless plumbing. " Can no one tell me what I have neglected ?" reiterated the good man, looking at many wondering faces bowed down by the weight of the problem. " I know, squeaked a little five-year old. •• You don't pay up !"

of the death of Mis 3 Mary Nicholson, of Dundee, better known to the numberless recipients of her kindness and sympathetic devotion in the hours of "sickness ati& distress as 11 Sister Mary." The deceased lady, says the Dundee Advertiser, was indeed a " Slum Sister," having for a long series of years visited the slums of the city, ministered to the sick and dying, and by her gentle influence won many over from lives of sin and misery, and so made them better men and women. Miss j Nicholson was a devoted member of i the Episcopal ChHrch i» Dundee,. j