Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 22 December 1892, Page 3

Notes and Events.

An old saw sayeth, " All's fish they get, that cometh to net " and so must have thought the fat cow that was slaughtered at West Honghtou in Cheshire. Upon opening her, it was found that her stomach contained nine coins, together amounting to 6s.

There are giants in the earth in these days as well as "in those days " as Lawrence county lays claim to the largest man in the State of Kentucky. He weighs 521 lbs ; and is 6ft Biu. in height. His arms measure 2ft in circumference.

Shakespeare understood human nature better than any man, and he has said " And oftentimes, excusing of a fault, Doth make the fault the "worse by the excuse." Exactly so, as the following shows : — Various were the excuses given by nine milkmen summoned for adulteration at West Ham Police Court. The most ingenious excuse given by the defendant who paid the heaviest fine was that the milk went sour, and scalded it ; while cooling it the can accidtntly tipped over, and cho water got in.

A little too soon. A Mrs Sharp, of Ooatesville, Indiana, who hart but recently been discharged from an insane asylum, poured oil over the bed on which her husband was sleeping, and then applied a match. Sharp was so horribly burned that he died soon after.

Mr Alderman Stuart Knill, the Lord Mayor elect, on his formal pre.» ventation to the Lord Chancellor by the Recorder, who said he was well known in connection with every enterprise, philanthropic and benevolent, that affected the interests of tho community. In signifying her Majesty's approval of the choice of the citizens, the Lord Chancellor allnded to the hostility which Mv Alderman Knill's election had excited on the ground of his religious belief remarking that the battle of civil and religious liberty had been fought and won, and that it had now come to be expected that a man's creed should not be a barrier to his enjoyment of the rights, privileges, and honours which were open to the citizens of this country.

This is an anecdote of Mark Twain related at a dinner party, and told by himself. Mark was on a lecture tour in A merica. The town was a little outside the borders of civilisation ; the chairman of the evening knew nothing about the lecturer, had never heard of him ; it was in the earliest of Mark's lecturing days. 'Ladies and gentlemen,' said the chairman, ♦it ia my duty to introduce you to the lecturer of the evening, Mr Mark Twain. The only thing that I know of him is that he has never been in our gaol, and I am bound at the same tirre to add that I don't know why he hasn't."

At the Westminister County Court lately Judge Bayley said that 360 years ago aa inn was a house for travellers and wayfaring men. The word " hotel " was comparatively a new one. Yes and does it mean the same as an inn ?