Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 27 December 1894, Page 3

Notes and Events.

Telegrams from Western Australia mentioned the appearance of typhoid fever in Coolgardie. It is nob to be wondered at after reading the following paragraph in the Miner : — " We learn that, despite the notices posted by the authorities, the drains leading to the various dams are still being used as public conveniences. The fact of the matter is that all the notices, talk, and harsh language ever printed or coined will not remedy this state of things. The people who dwell in camps in our back streets have to perform their excretal functions in some way, and trenches like those around the town afford a tempting privacy."

The variability of the Coolgardie climate has been well illustrated during the past week, says the Miner. On Wednesday last (14th Nov.) the recorded shade in the temperature was 110 degrees Fahr. and on Friday morning it had fallen to 60 degrees. During the week 30 points of rain have been registered, while the dust guage, like the pop ulace, has been completely choked.

With remarkable frankness, says the Pall Mall Budget, the brewers have invited the public to step into the Agricultural Hall and see how beer is made. And a visit to the Brewer's Exhibition will suggest that a great many things which look nasty and complicated go to make up a drink which is simple and nice. There are, indeed, hops to be seen here and there. 13 ut there are also such things as calcium chloride-, bisulphite of lime, dry cnlcic sulphite, dry sodic sulphite, sulphurous acid, salicylic acid, tartaric acid, and magnesia, "which may perhaps explain why Kentish fanners find that, even in the best years, hops are scarcely worth growing.

An anonymous author hag written a book entitled " 6000 tons of Gold." A reviewer says the book should have a beneficial effect in makiDg the debts of the habitually insolvent seem to them less formidable than usual. Our Government is good in distributing tracts, could they not secure the copyright and distribute gratuitously, and thus help to lift the cloud of despondency their legislation has cast upon the colouy '?

London Shows run iulo money: " Constantinople in London " at the OlyLopia has had a successful run of ten months, with two performances each day. The show employed several thousand people and the weekly expenses amounted to £5000. The company were to bring out 41 The Orient " on Boxing Day, which is to be even better than Constantinople. To show what capital is required we may mention that this company is spending from £50,000 to £70,000 on laying oet new grounds !

The tricks of advertising are many, and interesting. Advertisers try all they can to command attention, big type, curious blocks, strange assertions. In an English paper before us we are attracted to a circle with the word " Murder " (in large letters, the following words are smaller, stating) is the blackest of crimes. Improved—is the blackest of blackings. Rough ending to an exciting commencement.

In a shop in the Strand, giving up wholly to the sßle of lozenges, used to be, some thirty years ago, notices " Cough no more " buy So-and-so's cough lozenges. Many the bad joke there has been made j about that sign. " Cough no more, ' that's likely enough if any one is so stupid as to try those lozenges." v Cough no more, does the seller propose sudden death ?" and so on. It was certainly open to question why a person'who used those lozonges should be assured that he would cough no more. Now we are glad to find that same manufacturer has seen the danger of his announcements and words his advertisements •' Don't Cough — just use the unrivalled remedy." This is better, may he prosper. j