Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 6 August 1892, Page 3

Notes and Events.

» ._ The Hawkes Bay Herald says : — It must have been intensely funny when the Minister of Lands, *• M'Kenzie o' that ilk," was addressing the House on the Financial Statement. His speech had been written out, and then type-written for' him, and he was reading it. He was .called to order, and jet. again to order, but he tried hard to go on. At last the Speaker had to tell him plainly that a member was not allowed to read a speech, but he found a loophole for the bewildered Minister by telling him that he could treat his typewritten speech as " notes,", and deliver it by altering j the language as. he went on.

An excellent' story is told of a j British soldier in Egypt. His colo | nel, observing him one morning j wending- his way to camp with a > fine Egyptian rooster in his arras, haUed^im to know if he had been stealing ;"cHlckens, 'No, colonel,' . wa^tHftieply ; 'I.just saw him, the j old fellow,' sitting on the fence, and j I ordered him to crow for Old England, and he wouldn't, when I confiscated him for a rebel.'

An anecdote of the Duke of Marlborough, who is said to have bought land in the Powells River Valley, Term., ,on whioh to establish a country seat, is told at the expense of ' a native wine-maker in those parts. ' There, Mr Duke/ said the Tennessee vintner, handing Marlborough a sample glass, ' is what I call' honest wine !' " Yes," the duke is said to have replied ; " yes, Mr Stebbins, poor but honest! "

Though, a good many people will like^the new paper True Blue there aret. others who won't. That is natural, more espeoially when it raps the local brewer so roughly, as in the following 'note:—'' Good beer is liquici.food," So.saysa'Palmersfcon Brewer.-.and/it.will be interesting to know, wnicn' part of it is. In a> barrel. of Burton ale of 86 gallons there are 130 quarts of water and l quart of albumen or flesh-forming master. In ordei to get 1 quart of albumen a.^eer.-dri.nker has to drink 18O u quart> QfwaVer ' .sweetened with 2 quarts q^ sugar, thickened with 2i quarts ot . dextrine (nasty- tasting gum), Srio! touohed up with 7| quarts of poison (alcohol). I reckon the pigs getthe bast of the barley and the boozers '* liqtiid food" is dirty wnter. We must not be staitled when we. Hear the announcement thaflhe' staves of a beer-barrel are very nourishing." They probably do riot brew Beer like Burton ale in Palifier^tori. '

Thj^ power of of the press is again sliovyn- by the < manufacturers of a superior make of cigarettes, requesting the permission to use the name * of a popular newspaper as their brand. The paper 'has consented, after carefully examining into the leaf, and] the method of manufac-

How. some disorganised people love 'to have a "dig" at their masters is shown by the following :— Better-Half :' Georgie, darling, have I been quite as dear to you since we married as I was before ? Remaining fractroti, thinking of his cheque book 'V'YbiT 'Have been a precious sight dearer, my dear.