News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 237, 8 September 1883, Page 2

News m a Nut sh ell.

Ooffeestall keepers m Melbourne are said to be doing well. p The Mayor,,recently statedlthat one-man T had made a .fortune at the .-business. >/ r j ; , >.i ' Odd ' corneri of the freezing chambers are generally filled Up with* consignment oi. oya ters. Mr Stead, of New Zealand, has won thY Payne stakes at Newmarket,-; England. Bettor for New Zealand (says the Sydneyi Mail) if he had won a prize for a big turnip" m Auckland. r A boy, aged.eighfc years, son of Re.v. Mi! I Yelland (Melbourne) was recently poisoneol by a tabiespoonful of carbonic acid, being given him instead of medicine. He died m ten minutes.; , - - The Ly ttelton Timeß has the following new nursery rhyme on political babies, illustrative of the Ofcae;o froefighU : The Macs delight to bavk and bite, for 'its their. nature to, ~ „.,,;■ And Fish and ; Bracken growl and fight ... (Green makes them so-to do!) But Auckland members, they refuse ;' ' ' ' "To fight like cats and dogs ;.; ;vm -U- ;•; .: Their little hands they only use - '>^'- : To roll each other's logs. . A responsible police officer says that the confectioners' shops m Melbourne are in •' •* many instances promoters of, female intemperance. Spirits are consumed m. these places to an alarming- extent' by virtuous females, Who pretend that they are drinking tea.br coffee or lemonade. The first snow seen m Rome m 12 years fell recently. - - --- According to John Bright, India it the great problem of the future.^ .>il c I \ Paris consumes an average of 205 hbrae*—. a week. They are .killed by eleetnoitiyj^*' The last new boat of the Cunard line, the 4uravia, is 7500 tons, and 10,000 horse-' i power. , j In 188 1 the lunatics m England would have peopled two towns as large as Bath and Torquay, ." ; ''""' ,'"'.'.'''; s . *av M Well, madam,' how's 1 ybur .husband to-day P" " Why. - doctor, he Y ho ; bW :: ter." "Did you get the leeches?" "Yes, but he only - took; three of thorn raw jI" had to fry thereat,"; ,v -hv ..■,;.■-. This is the way a Galveston (Texas) paper "drops " iuto. poetry:.;^ Early to bed and early to rise, makes, a man healthy, wealthy, .and ' wise ; but ; still it won't work, however hard 'he tries, m bringing httn wealth—unless he adver* tise." .. -■-- .. - ••■■ ••'' -« '-.,■' •■■- t It is estimated that: Ireland has 1,500,000 acres of red and black bogs, and Dr. Lyons, one of the members of Parliament for Dublin, : not; long-ago recom* mended that the Government should em* ploy the starving people m planting them with trees. . The mint m San Francisco is said to be • ; ; the largest m the world— twice as large as the one .m Philadelphia, and three times the size of any m Europe, having 24,000,000d015. worth of coin and- bullion stored away m its vaults. - We hear a good deal about the " ragev ; ( of speculation," but the rage: generally i cornea, after the speculation. „. . ■ ,