Miscellaneous Items.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1605, 11 January 1886, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items.

i . .. Here is a bit of advice from an old ■ lad? housekeeper : — My fair friends never scold servants. Instruct, re-r ■ prove, admonish as much as may he necessary; give warning, or, if need be, turn the worthless out of the house; 'but never descend to scolding or to • rude or hai"sh language, for there is m. truth something very uudignified m the practice. If people could only > : see the ridiculous figure they make when m a towering rage the chances "are that they^woiild contrive to keep tjieir -■ temper rather more within i^^ounds. We may excuse anger, and V even passion perhaps where the name, fame, or character of friends or relationa is assailed, but to fly into a fary about broken plates or overdone inuttonJß to show a want of mental composure that few would like to have describe! m its proper light, and called by its proper name. \ ■■' Dame Nature docs not always disadvantageously bestow, her less appreciable gift. A wealthy banker of Philadelphia who during his life ; was sorely annoyed by the extraordinary length of his nose, which "exposed him to unkind jokes, and prevented his iinljappy fate, has bequeathed 100,000 dollars to the man who, within three months of his v death, shall have satisfied his execu- ' tors that he.haa "the longest and most disfigured nose." There are already a large num ber ot competitors "':'■- for the legacy, the individual whose prospects of obtaining the bequest are so fur the rosiest being an Irishman m a humble station of life. Many a fair maid will bn inclined to ask " What's m a nose?" when she knows , that such a handsome sum hauga at the end thereof. . ' , .' A physician who has had experience and observation on the subject ;of tricycling by ladie-ssars: — "I am of opinion that no exercise for women has been discovered that is to them so •■ really useful. Xoung and middle-aged ladies can learn to ride the tricycle - with ; the greatest facility, and they become exceedingly skilful. One • young lady can best me both m pace and distance. I shall rejoice to see the time nvhen this exercise shall be : jWhpopuiar among girls and women as tennis and the dance, for the more •, ifuUv, zhor physical Ijfe pf our woman* hood is developed the better for men as well as women. A ride should be followed by. a brisk bath in trepid •water, ending with a cool douche, , and by a change of clothes." Affairs m the East of Europe are cer tainly m the most critital condition. Prom this distance, with, at the beat, imperfect and unreliable sources *of information, it is impossible to say more. At the present stage of the matter the question seems to be, Will the Powers be able to restrain the Cupidity of the smaller states? The exchange of a single volley will, it is more than likely, bring about momentous results, and, with all these semicivilised ruffians armed and excited with the prospects of plunder the occurrence of some overt act of war is unpleasantly easy. Servia and Greece, who seem to be tugging at the leash with such desperate earnest- . new do not really want to fight, nor have they any wrongs lo rectify. Their moving impulse lies m the fact that they Ihinkthe time has come for another division of the unspeakable Turk's real estate m Europe, and behind Servia, at any rate, stands that spectre of European unrest, Russian secret influence.