Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 15 March 1894, Page 3

Notes and Events.

Commttofal uptit m now so 1 submitted that tUttfgb thek nn- 1 nounC«mMtt Art Mill? ttfidorstcod ! by thi initiated, to outsiders they sound most carious. Thus " the wool sales are brisk" refer to the action of the purchasers not to the sales for you could hardly say, as might be possible with a New South wmee Parliament, that the meetings wetoti " full of lively or exciting action OKi^S&ts" as the dictionary illttfckates the use of the word brisk. Again *' Australian sheepskins dull " ; this has nothing to do with the spirits of those sheepskin;;:, though had they feeling it might have, as stored in a London warehouse must be mighty different to the times sheep gaily, perhaps even briskly, bore them over the rich pastures of this colony. Sheepskins are dull by reflection, because buyers are dull in bidding. " Wheat is steady," which will be welcomed news to all prohibitionists, who would be even more cheered if the wheat brokers could also be said to ba always so "-The. American market is firm " ; the American's show they know a thing or two, doubt the reported excellence of the harvest and are determined not as yet to lower their price. A perusal of the market rates should exalt the opinion held of tallow. "It is unchanged." In this world of wonders and mixtures it is pleasant reading to all, except butchers and stock-owners, to find something Conservative, something " unchanged " and tallow has been this wonderful article. " Milk frequently masquerades as cream " bo Gilbert & Sullivan tell us in one of their operas, Oleomargarine as butter we know from the experts, yet, for a time tallow changeth not. Tallow is the solid oil or fat of ruminant animals so a high authority informs us, but commercially it is almost exclusively made from oseu and sheep. At one time tallow was used to signify anything that in appearance was not pleasant, as we come across the expression " tallow face " to indicate a pale, greasy unhealthy looking person. What does Shakespeare say — " Out, you baggago ; Yon tallow face !' Besides the tailow ; derived f'-om oxen and sheep, there is the white tallow from Russia prepared from j the fat of sheep and goat 3. The j best tallow is that wholly . from i sheep, then that mixed with oxen, I then that wholly oxen. In addition ! to the tallow known as such com- j inercially, there are a large number of vegetable tallows such as the Bayberry-tallow of Brazil ; tho Mafurra-tallow tree of Mozambique ; the v tallow and the . Virola tallowTS^n' Clhina they use the seeds of ti^;, tree for candles, which they coat i with wax. In India and England'the same tallow is U3ed for lubricating purposes. In Malay the tallow derived from the nuts of several species of ll open is used both : for cooking and lighting. It will be news that one species of Australian gums, the Ewalyptus Microcoys is j also known as the " tallow wood " from the oily substance it is filled with. The Earl of Dundonald argues in the Nineteenth Century for some legal protection for surnames, and though the writer is an earl there is a great deal in it. A man's good name is in this colony at times all he possesses, the Government carefully raking in all he has laboured for, and if an unmitigated rnffiian chooses to adopt it, who is to say him nay ? The unfortunate man has to pass the rest of bis life in continually .asserting that he is not the John Smith who was fined at the ftourt the other day, or was sentenced to imprisonment for life, or any other fearful charge which hi* reckless appropriator of his surname dhooses to get into trouble for. The law compels a man to brand hif ft«fter "jefairy made " why not compel a man to stick to the* name be was 'known when he was ac knowjedged to be the son of his father?- This little complaint reminds us of a joke at a pautomine in Old Drury Lane theatre in London in the sixties. It must be known that the very old Norfolk family of high estate, are the Howards, and a man of very low estate, living hardly wheHl any knew, sorrowed in the natttti of Bugg ! Anyone would have commiserated with this person and admitted that any change of name WQuldt be an advantage, but Bugg, hav»g lived a number of years attached to this title, determined to secure a much nicer for the future, and deoided upon Howard. Howard was to be the siirmmie but >the front name had to be conspicuous j to, so ?for fear of being mistaken for any 'Howard he prefixed it with the name, oi -Norfolk, and became verywen Known to the world, as we shall presently show, though it has taken somr-ttewr to get there as Norfolk Howard. Mr Clown in the pantoa grsat hit over this real scene, as upon the stage he had a large four-posted ' bedstead^-and haying attempted to ■■ take a snooze upon it, jumped off, !

scratched himself violently, anc( started j^ hun,b am.oDg3fc t^e bed olotbes, Borne one asked Ww « What we you banting tor ?" vhin ha tttruecl to tho nudteneft holding "something 11 betwesn his fiager and thumb and said, with * wink, "A Norfolk Howard." A roar of laughter applauded the joker every night.