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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1625, 3 February 1886, Page 2

The Victorian Society for the Preven* tion of. Cruelty to Animals lent * letter to the committee of the V.R.C. after the Melbourne Cup meeting, drawing the attention of the dab to the cruel way some of the jockeys cut up the horsei they rode during the meeting. Trenton will bear the marks of the butebering,h« Sot m the Cup for a long time, and other animals were nearly as badly scarred with the spurs of their riders. Then is no necessity for such inhumanity; indeed the best jookeyg rarely punish a horse, they know whether he is doing his best or not, and only punish when a horse refuses to try to win. The New York Chamber of Commert* Journal remarks that " every Enropoan Government should without delay inform the industrial classes that this is not tho time for the poor people to emigrate to the United States." " Farming " says the same authority, "m Amerieaii profitless; mills, factories, workshops, and mines are closed; tens of thousands of iadustrbus men are idle; and scores ef thousands of women and children are on the brink of starvation." . A good story reaches us concerning two well known Wellington residents, who slnll be nameless. Both, are pro. fessional men, one being a doctor and the. other a lawyer. A few weeks ago, ! the limb of the jaw fell ill and called m his medical adviser, who prescribed cer~ tain medicine and ordered him to remain iribed l fdra few days, so as 'to obtain complete rest. On the occasion of hi* I next visit the medico found that the patient had got out of bed and was appearing for the plaintiff m a case u» which .the doctor was the defendant. This discovery caused considerable surprise ; but the feelings of the disciple of iEsculapius can be better imagined than described when he learned a little later en m the day that, inainlv through the instrumentality of the lawyer, the case had been decided against him.— Post.

A somewhat curious anecdote Is rt» lated among the vaccinatort, of a young woman whose curiosity had outrun her judgment. She investigated the contents of one of the vaccinator's re««p. tacles m the house m which he lodged and wherein she was a servant. Th#y were nice toothpicks, she thought, no " sharp pointed ; a little wide, perhapt, and clrimsy. She was going to have boa anyway. She took one of the vaecin* points, which are ivory and easily mistaken for toothpicks by a servant who knew nothing o± vaccination. She pick, ed her teeth with the point, and before long could not tell what was the matter with her. Neither could anyone elte, until she showed the doctor the tooth* pick. He knew then what to deal with. The result is better imagined than dt* scribed, as the vaccination " took."