MISCELLANEOUS.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8173, 3 May 1895, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

How to serve o dinner. — Eab ib. Some people appear to be utterly unable to do the best they can. Half tbo world dosen't know why tbo other half lives. For every widower who marries a widow there are eleven who espouse maidens. Brussels is the place in which the greatest number of hats aro made. Ten thousand are manufactured daily. An English surgeon recently hoi • lowed outa new socket for the insertion of en artificial eye, the old one nob being largo eoougb, A firm in Palestine is engaged in supplying water from the River Jordan to churches. It is pub up in sealed bo ties and sold by the case. | 11 There's one good tbing to be said abont Tbompkios. He la perfectly truthfnl.' 'Of course he is. He is too stingy to make an extravaganb ■batomenb. M»oy a man would carry a burden contentedly if officious persons did not tell him it) was too heavy. Stranger : Wh eh ie the besb hotel to stay at here? Native: Why, it dosen't matter which ay them ye takes. Afore mornin' yell be wishio' ye wur in the other. The Lord Mayor takes precedence of every other British aubject within the jurisdiction of London , the Prince of Wales himself, even, not being an ox* cepbion, A poeb «ayi ; " There if always Bun* rise somewhere," This ia comforting. To the mm who ii just going to bod there cornea tbo bappy consolation thab somebody hat to got up tvod go (9 werk,