BREVITIES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2656, 24 September 1881, Page 3

BREVITIES.

The cost of the new Sydney infirmary will be one hundred thousand pounds. Patent medicines are said to yield £200,000 annually to the British Government. .-Hi.! The Old Testament will not be re vised for three years yet. People will have to break the Ten Commandments as they are for the present. TlnT poet says that "Love lies dreaming” 1 But that is not the worst of it. Love lies with the utmost iacility when wide awake. A young lady’s hat was run over the other day by a broad wheeled cart. The ribbons were somewhat soiled, but the hat is the latest shape. A thousand Chinese were massacred in Peru on May 15 by negroes, ihe Chinese made a brave defence bu wore quicldy overpowered, owing to their provisions and ammunition failing Mr Gladstone will next year celebrate his Parliamentary jubilee. Elected for Newark in December, 1832, he will have served his 50 years next December twelvemonths. It has been proposed to celebrate the occasion.

“Atlas,” in the World, has the following fashion paragraph:—The dismay so generally expressed at the appearance of the crinolette is somewhat unreasonable. In the first place, it was sure to happen, as the feminine petticoat has collapsed and expanded with great regularity for something like 200 years, and an inflation was just done; in the second place, the crininolo projected hideousy at the side, whereas the crinolette will only stick out at the back, in a doubtless artificial but not inelegant manner.