Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 26 January 1893, Page 2

Notes and Events.

It is wonderful what some people will do to save themselves trouble. A late English paper records the fact that a female domestic servant confessed to having given pins to a baby eight months old. This is how and why — " Oh, if yon please, ma'am, I dropped the pins into baby's mouth. 1 went to your basket, got the ping, put them into baby's mouth one by one, and then gave him tea to wash them down. I left him five to ten minutes, and then gave him some more, two or three at a time. Then I gave him some more tea, and left him. I did not like baby. I thought if I gave him the pins he would die, and I should not have to nurse him."

Charles Wells, the man* "whor*' '■ broke the bank at Monte Carlo is V civil engineer and patent agent, and. his London address is 154 and 156, Great Portland-street, It is alleged that he has defrauded various people of at least £80,Q00. According ito> the evidence to : be adduced Wells ' obtained large sums of money- fro hi f: 'people, who 'had inventions to dispose of. AU J they received for their money, it is said, was a protective, certificate. This was to all intents and purposes only a receipt for £1, but Wells represent^ 'that they

were letters patent, which were paid for accordingly. It h alleged that the swindle has been going on for five or six years, and several warrants against Wells have been issued. The accused is the owner of several yachts, known as the " Monte Carlo Fleet." The flagship is called the 11 Palais RoyaL" A Home paper says a Mr \V. Hunter not long ago purchased r. baby grass snake. Not liking to trust it among its folUgroffn relations, he put it in a ease among some salamanders, toads, and common English frogs. On the next morning ifc hail disanpaared, and no searching brought it to light, but a scrutiny revealed the fact that a medium-sized frog looked particularly plump, and seemed to have a decidedly hard lump inside it Angry at his loss and cjirious to know the litt> .-ruukffs fate, my correspondent killed the fro£, opened it, and found the unfortunate missing one curled up inside it dead. It certainly is extraordinary that the frog should have swallowed a thing twice its own length and half its own weight. Doctor (to porter): Well, John, what's the matter with you? — Porter : Most infarnal toothache, sir. — Doctor took John to his room and gave him a stiff glass of whisky. The next day the doctor asked bow he \?as. " Bedad, your honour, I'm quite another man, and, if it's not troubling you too much, the other man would like a glass of whisky, too, sir."