ODDS AND ENDS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 58, 5 February 1884, Page 3

ODDS AND ENDS.

The London Caterer tells of a curiosity in restaurants founded by a philanthropic merchant to supply the working people of Paris with something fit to eat at a price within their means, Here you may have soup, meat, vegetables, bread, wine, and dessert, all of perfectly wholesome quality, for seventy centimes, The pension kills its own ox every day, and serves about four thousand meals in the same time. Customers wait on themselves, getting their food at one counter, and going to another for their knives, forks, and spoons, At the meeting of the creditors of a brewer and publican at Liverpool latety, the deficiency in the debtor's estate was ascribed mainly to the depreciation of public-house property through the “ wave of temperance which was passing over Liverpool.” The Bev. Charles Strong is taking legal steps to obtain from the Presbytery of Melbourne the usual certificate, which on its production will entitle Mr. Strong to admission in any other Presbyterian Church he may desire to join. Mr. F. Mitchell, South Biverton, informs the Western Star ot ” the most singular thing that ever he knew in the cattle creation"—viz., an Ayrshire heifer (recently purchased by him from Mr. Stuck) which is giving milk from six teats. A Munich journal gives vent to the following Hibernicism apropos ot Wagner and the recent representations of Parsifal — "Ah, if the master were alive, he would see how greatly he was estimated alter his death I"