Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 7 May 1895, Page 3

Notes and Events.

It is curious by What, means a tnan is enticed into matrimony. In February a widow tried to throw hersell'off Rochester Bridge ih the Old dbuntry. She was locked up instead and* appeared at the Police Court. A man present offered to fc marry her— (why ?) and the widow |^ jumped at the chance. The wicked may suppose that he saw a way to a change when he might be so a^wous. . > j .;

♦Daring the month of Februarythe Thames was frozen nearly its whole letfgth.' ' All down at the mouth tramp was seriously impeded by ice flees* whilst at Kingston the river was crossed by horsemen, tip at Oxford the illustrated papers ha\e a photograph of a coach and six horses and, a crowd of people on the,, centre of the river opposite the Boating Club's barges. . .

tfhetfe'a money in plays. Mr Arfchur.LaW, tKe author of ThilTeilb £opi which has run over 427 . times,' owns to having received some £6000 in fees from the run at the VandeTille ; two companies in America ; orie in Australia ; and three in the English Provinces.

Mr J. F. Nisbet in the Pall Mall Budget writes :— Perhaps the most graphic. example of the worthlessness of the purely scholastic " exam, 1 ' for many of the purposes attributed to it, is presented at the present moment by China. . . . . The exam, we most of all require is one which has not yet found a place at the end of any school or college ounrjcujum, though we most of us encounter it later in our career, Home to be hopelessly ." plucked," others to pass triumphantly. I mean an examination in the qualities most conducive to success in the various walks of life. What are theße qualities ? lam not prepared, off hand, to set the papers, the successful passing of which by his scholars would reassure the head master of Harrow as to the practical value of his great school. But the qualities required are those upon which a committee of men of the world rather than professors would be $$$. well agreed. And,- if I mistake'nofc, they would not, ,in any great degree, be bookish. " '

Some interesting statistics on' the world's supply of sheep have heen gathered by the "American Shepherds' Year Book," and we find that according to this authority there are 683 million sheep, distributed as follows :— Great Britain and Ireland, 38,600.000; Eussia, 49,000,000; South America, 186,000,000 ; United

States, 4^,000,000; Canada, &.000, - 000; Australasia, 124,800,000 ; Tur- • key, 10,709,000 .; A siafcio Bussia, 18,400,000 ,- Africa, SS.SOCOOO.