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Manawatu Herald, 10 March 1894, Page 2

The Mamawatu County Council meet at Sanson on Wednesday, when the usual special tram will run, which enables visitors to travel to that township and back in the one day. On Tuesday Messrs Gorton & Son hold a large sale of stock at Bulls. Acceptances for the Sandon Hack Racing Club close at Sansoa to-night. The London & Berlin Piano Co. have an advertisement in this issue. The popular tuner Mr E. Ellery Gilbert is their representative in this district. Pianos can bt obtained on the time system and there ia a large variety of makers, all good, to ohoose from. On Wednesday and Thursday next Mr Montague will sell by auction in the Tram sheds, a largo assortment of drapery and clothing. One way to do it I When Behanzin, the King of Dahomey, made up his mind to surrender, ha beheaded his mother, directing her to inform bis dead father of his intention. Audacity. Jabez Balfour had the assurance to tell an interviewer, speaking of his arrest, that he had entire confidence in the justice .of God. Captain Smith of the Dunedin City Guards won the champion rifle belt, gold medal and £35 at the Rifle meeting. A silken prayer-book has been woven at Lyons in France, the completion of which has taken three years. The prayers are not printed on the silk but woven. A new kind of fuel, manufactured at a very cheap rate, is being used on Italian vessels. It is much less bulky than coal. Invention says that the compound—consisting of clay, sawdust, crude petroleum, resin, and other materials was suggested by Engur. Maestricci, of the Italian Navy. Recently, in cleaning the statue of the Goddess of Liberty, which is poised on the highest pinnacle of the Texas State Capital, it was discovered thata swarm of bees had m,r?.o their home ia the hollow head of tho goddeco, aeiag the nostrils &S en QEtraEce, and had Oiled it half full of' honey. It is written " He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortunefor they are impediments to great enterprisas, either of virtue or mischief." It • must have been read by a J. C. lie Goey ■ of Melbourne, as tiring of his wife and two t children or finding them impediments to ; some great enterprise he contemplated he I calmly sold them to a roan named Can-, an 1 fhis was the sale note—(they seemed to have realised a satisfactory figure) " Received from H. Carr the sum of £1500 as compensation in full for the loss of my ; wife and of my two ohildren, whioh I I thought were mine, and I will not trouble H. Carr soy more in the future." 1! 1 • There is a terrible club at Home called the Thirteen Club whose otiief mission is to do everything superstitious people objeot to. They kindly invited Lord Wolsely to I become a member, and a portion of his j reply we reproduce :—l wish I could accept I this flattering invitation and become an honorary member, bat I could not honestly do so. I not only believe in many superstitions, bat I hag them with the warmest affection. They link, if not with a spiritual world of which I know nothing, at loast with a glorious and artistic and piotureique past, of which history has told me much. I believe in ghosts and in amulets; I have worn out the rims of several hats sinoe I have been in Dublin through my salutations of Bingle magpies (that mystio bird •bounds in Ireland) tad I would not on any acooant walk under a ladder, Ac.; in faot, lam prone to adopt any superstition I am told of whioh I find others believe in. How, therefore, could I express sympathy with the objects of your dub? ' In the Assessment Court (or the Borough of Wanganni k cropped ap that Mr "McCarthy Wa* paying r £2o ft week rent for the jfritland hotel.. .-■_ , - ,< ,t. There were 4100 marriages solemnised in New Zeatand during 1893. One of the most fearful incident* that has ever happened is reported from Sablioa, • tillage nei? St. PeterAurg, where-iiaay rich Russians have country residences. A youug tnarrieaiaay of goed'family, and well-known in society, was vexed at finding her hair beginning to fall, and, by the advice of a friend, she washed it with petroleum. One morning, after performing this operation, she was sitting in her dressing-gown with all her luxuriant hair hanging loose to dry, bat being annoyed by the strong smell she lighted a cigarette. In an instant che was enveloped in flames. Her husband, who was in the next room, hearing her cries, rushed in, and says he simply saw a column of fire blazing fiercely. In spite of all his efforts he could not extinguish the flames, which Bimply buraed themselves out. The condition of the unfortunate lady baffles description. She had covered her eyes with her hands, and they and her feet were almost all that was left of human likeness. For several days she lingered in iner* pressible agony, and only died on the fifth day, retaining her full consciousness from first to last. The total anunal output of matches throughput tfce world is valued at £21,000, 000. Borne members of the fair sex have started a fencing club in Paris. It is ' called the " Cercle d'Escriqae d*j pAtnen,? |and its " professenr " is -Mine. Gabriel^ the wife of the former maitra d'arms at St. Cyr. The motto *of the club is "Ludaa pro forma," and the patronesses include theComteaae de Marat, the Comtesse 4e Longueval. the Comtesse de* Gantes and other well known ladies*. The new club opens up great possibilities. The ladies — tonrnalists of the future nay fight their own battles Jike the male brethren of the jsajß sat we ♦rest with m little i*#wr?. '

Mr Archibald Ken- has purchased the bakery business from Mr Forater, and has secured a first class baker. Cleanliness in food is very important, and Mr Kerr makes this a distinct point going bo far as to throw his bakehouse open to the inspection of his customers. The mare sold at the pound to-day realised the sum of £6 13s, Mr G. Cole; being the purchaser. We understand that arrangements have been made for the Pinafore Amateur Opera Company to visit Feilding on Tuesday. In consequence a rehearsal will ba held at the Hall on Monday night, when a full attendance is particularly requested. | School boys are not out so much in their definitions as they roughly appear to be, as some of these extracts from examination pjip.rs show : — «♦ A circle is a round straight line with a hole in che centre." I " Thing* which are equal to each oihti are equal to anything else." " The two most famous voloanoes of Europe are Sodom and Gomorrah." Mediaval was » wicked man, who was tempted more than he could bear." " A demagogue is a vestal licensed to contain fermented and spirituous liquors." Sargood, Son and Ewen have purchased the stock-in-trade and goodwill of the business of Wm. Me Arthur and Co. in New Zealand. This it stated to be the largest cash purchase of soft goods yet made in the Colony, involving a stock of from £80.000 to £90,000. Sir George Grey left the colony by the i.e. Gothio for a trip Home. Sheep-dipping is finished on the Motoa EaUte. The many friends of Mr Joseph Saunderi, of Awahuri, will learn with sincere regret of the death of his youngest daughter, which occurred nt Tinakori road, Wellington on Wednesday from brain fever. The great realising sale lasting for 20 days promises to be a gigantic success. The whole stock is to be offered at genuine reduced prices many of the lines will be marked at less than English cost at r« Am House, Wellington. During the Great Sa'e Ladies' aprons will be sold at 4Jd. 4 buttons Kid gloves all new fresh goods at 1/11 per pair. Whit* and oream laot-s at 9d per doz. Ladies' linen collars new Rhapes at 3d each. Boyß' sailor collars at 3d each, sold everywhere at Cd, at the Great bale Te Aro House, Wellington. It will pay country customers to take a run down to the Great Realising Sale they will save all the expenses and be money in pocket by buying all they wank while goods are so cheap. Orders from the country will bo carefully seleoted and sent carriage paid from the Great Realising Sale at Te Aro House. We are requested to direct the attention of our readers to the fact that the Annual Sale of Surplus and Summer Stock will commence at The Bon Marche, Palmerston North, on Saturday, 13th January, and continue for 21 days. Buyers in this district will do well to pay the Bon Marche an early visit.