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Manawatu Herald, 29 January 1900, Page 2

'I asked her if she thought she could learn to love me. She said she couldn't, because she was already studying French and learning to swim.'

Mr Nelson wants a good horse-driver. _ Everybody we expect has received i kolloway's Almanac for 1900. If they [ have not they should get one, it is illustrated, ft is useful and there is also a medical guide. Any storekeeper, who sells Holloway's pills and ointment will have an almanac on hand. In the almanac directions are given I how to secure a superb engraving free. Jonathan Roberts, formerly a clerk in the Bank of New Zealand, Wellington, and well-known throughout the colony, will be remembered for his daring escape from the Lyttelton Gaol. He was subsequently traced to one of the South American States, where he entered the army, and it is now repotted that hebas been elected President.—Exchange. The Government have received a cable message from the Sydney Board of Health, stating that the case isolated in Sydney is undoubtedly one of bubonic plague, though in a mild form. There is, it is stated, visible evidence that the sufferer was inoculated by the bite of a flea, and it is hoped no other person has been infected. The greatest precautions are being taken. Members of the patient's household have been isolated and his house closed. . In France disgraceful scenes have occurred in the Chamber of Deputies, arising out of the trial of the Assumptionist priests and the dissolution of their confraternity. The members of the Waldeck- Rousseau Ministry were grossly insulted by members of the Nationalist party. At Pahiatua the other day a weases was caught comfortably settle under a hen. Subsequently a heated combat took place between one of his hens and this unwelcome visitant the honours of which were even. An extraordinary affair has been reported to the police. It seems that last night (Thursday) the racehorse Rosella, with Mr L. D. Nathan's colt Hastings, and another horse, were locked up in three different boxes in certain stables which the trainer had taken. Early this morning a man claiming to act with authority ordered the horses out of the yard, and subsequently broke open Rosell?'s box and turned out the horse, which, however, was secured. The man then in like manner opened the box in which Hastings had been placed, and turned the valuable horse out into the street giving it a smack that sent it galloping down the road. Later in the day the racer was recovered from the Mount Cook pound.— Post. The greatest heat produced artificially is that oi an electro-arc furnace, the kind that is used in the production of artificial diamonds, calcium, carbide, etc. It is so intense that nothing exists with which to record it. It is estimated, however, to be about the 4ooodeg Fahrenheit. The coldest known temperature is that of liquid air, which freezes alcohol and mercury, and distances all means of measuring. It is claimed that with it a temperature of 4oodeg below zero Fahrenheit is reached. The present limits of head and cold are, therefore, represented by the arc furnace and liquid air. The Rev. Father Patterson, late of Palmerston North, has been appointed to succeed the late Father Walter McDonald, as priest at Howick and Panmure. A party of Christchurch gentlemen, led by Mr S. H. Moreton, the artist, recently visited Te Anau. on an exploring, tour, one of their objects being to locate the waterfall which Mr Moreton had seen from a distance, and which he was hopeful would exceed in height the famous Sutherland Falls. They have returned, and report that they found the falls. They are not nearly so high as the Sutherland, but more imposing. The first drop from the glacier is about 360 ft. From this there is a break to the lake of some acres in extent, where the grandeur of the fall is seen, the colouring of the lake being also singularly beautiful. The drop of the water is such as to raise the level of the lake 4ft in the vicinity. The fall is near Cathedral Peaks, and although it appears to have been known to exist, this is believed to be the first time it has been located. The Cathedral Peak was scaled to reach the falls. It was a very dangerous undertaking, part of the ascent being made along a wall of rock 2ft wide and going sheer down hundreds of feet each side. A pole, flag, and message were left on the summit. The scene from the peak was indescribably grand. The report of the trip is to be furnished to the Survey Department and to a Canterbury journal. A medical authority says that four oranges eaten every day are effective in removing the desire for intoxicants. . One should be eaten before breakfast, one each at 11 a.m., 3 p.m., and 6 p.m." A so far unreported domestic episode occurred in Dunedin in connection with the late excursion trip to Purakanui. It appears (relates the Bruce Herald) that a good looking woman, with a baby in her arms, was trying to obtain a railway ticket, and unable to fight her way in the melee round the ticket boxes, she pitifully asked a young and good-natured looking man to hold baby. On the spur of the moment he feebly consented to do so. In the scramble the baby's mother disappeared, and was lost to sight— but to the young man's m«mory dear— for two solid hours. Words fail to picture the anguish of the mother looking for her child, and the lamentations of the man looking for the child's mother. After two hours' seaich, the young man and the mother discovered each other, the young man, the baby, and the mother all looking the picture of woe. The moral for young men is to let someone else " hold the baby." During the present century seven instances have been recorded in the British Isles in which the bride has married the best man by mistake. Mr W. Fraser announces to-day that he has purchased the bakery business lately carried on by Mr Langley. Mr Fraser is a first-class baker, and will deserve a fair share of the trade, which he means tc? secure by paying every attention to the wants of his customers.

Mr J. W. Procter, of Turakina, has a notice in this issue of the Railway Hotel at Turakina of which he is the proprietor. Travellers will note that this hotel is close to the station, and makes a convenient house of call on the long railway journey from Palmerston to Wanganui. The best of liquors are kept in stock. The Law Times calls attention to the fact that a soldier may make his, will on the battlefield by word of mouth, even though he be a minor ; witnesses are unnecessary. It was stated, says the Nelson Mail, that a couple of horses, one of them a racer, owned by MrTasker, were stung to death by bees last week at Motupipi The animals were near a hive when the latter was accidentally upset. Aunt Jane : " That is a very decorous and modest bathing suit, Louise, and I quite approve of it." Louise : "I am glad you think it so proper, aunty ; but it is my bicycle suit, you" know." This morning before Messrs Thynne and Fraser, J.s P., John Taylor was fined 20s and costs us, for refusing to leave licensed premises when requested to do so, the alternative being 14 day's imprisonment. A prohibition order was issued against Walter Pennington, who did not appear.