Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 27 February 1894, Page 3

Notes and Events.

An exchange priding ifcself, quite , unnecessarily upon its accuracy, asserfcs that some woman in London wore " bracelets ou her legs as well as her arms." Bracelet is derived from the French " bracel " an armlet or defense of the arm, and by no twist of the imagination can it be used to represent a circle round a leg. Patent medicines testify to the advantages of advertising. The defendant in a late case in the Wellington Supreme Court mentioned he had spent £2400 in advertising the new medicine, and that, apparently, within a year. .., Mr Labouchere in Tt nth, referring ; to the Irish Vice Roi's privilege of ' kissing the ladies presented at his Court, writes :— Let me recommend Lord fioughton, if he wishes to be popular among the ladies, to keep his I nose warm. The ladies whom Lord Londonderry kissed on their presenJtortion to bim.fre^uently complained ** that his nose was so cold- that this diminished the value- of the kiss. The same paper alsre mentions a strange transformation scene. Irish viceroys are stripped of their ' sovereign attributes so soon as they reach English waters. The following Btory h told of Lord Houghton and ' a Iswjjy with whom he was acquainted. „They both found themselves on ' "board the Holyhead packet; During the voyage from Ireland the lady treated him with ceremonious re* Bpect, So soon, however, as the packet entered Holyhead Harbour she said to him, "Now, Bobby, you are no longer a Viceroy, so take my bag and make yourself useful "