ODDS AND ENDS.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 28, 15 December 1883, Page 6

ODDS AND ENDS.

The prize ring—The engagement ring* Warranted to W up — Early cucumbers. Tho poach blight is taking wings. Book-koeping made easy — Don't return the bonytwed volume. The Princess of Wales is still girlishlooking. Princess Mary, daughter of the Duchess of Teck, is tall. How sweet to recline in the lapse of ages — say about eighteen. The total drawings at the Sunday-school Industrial Exhibition are £185. To be successful, a general, after all, must have two sheepish qualities — head and pluck. A drum and fife band is proposed in connection with the Band of Hope Union. A New Zealand bunny-factor — Tuberculosis among the rabbits. A Harmless Burglar.— One who breaks into a perspiration. During the last ten years, £14,148,104 worth offish were exported from the British inlands. Pedantry crams our ears with learned lumber, and takes out our brains to make room for it. Dunedin folks have telephonomania. There are 250 subscribers there, and more wanting in. The London "Standard" asserti that New Zealand is tho most debt -ridden spot on the earth. Mr S. T. George, M.H.R., has been appointed Vice-president of Rodney Agricultural and Pastoral Association. A song dedicated without permission to unsuccessful candidates for Mar wood's Post-" The Lost C(h)ord." Mr Pond says there is D 0173 per cent, of albuminoid ammonia in the city water. Who'd a thought it ? Pity the poor Minister of Public Works. The Dunedin people are preparing deputations demanding more expenditure. Mr T, F. Martin, of Timaru, has been appointed Town Clerk of Wellington, and Mr B. Loughrey, of Melbourne, City Engineer, Mr George Wiltshire, AssistantEngineer. The biggest divorce crop yet heard of was raised last year by Cuyahoga county, Ohio. The suits numbered 340. The daughters of the Frince of Wales are becoming very graceful. They are no longer treated as children. Wife—" But, my dear, I shall catch cold coming down so late to let you in." Husband — " Oh, no, my love ; I'll rap you up weljrbefore you come down." ,It is asserted that the housefly transmits disease by carrying germs from place to place. A careful nousewife will do well when she see's a fly with a germ in his hand to drjye him over the garden wall into the house of her neighbour, Captain Thompson, formerly harbourmaster, has been appointed dock master at Otago' Harbour. The workmen engaged at Peterborough Cathedral have ascertained that the Lantern Tower' subsided through the foundation being built on a layer of sand. Tenders are called for cutting down Emily Place. This is the meteor season, and one ' of these " falling stars " has probably been mistaken for the comet. ' ' '. Not only is Bishop Luck's logio defective^ but his actions do not square with it. <He cries " Bravo !" to the Irish National League, and wants it to g#t justice for Catholics, but he declines to give them the use of a Catholic school- room to do the work in. ' 1 " It's a very solemn thing to be married, " said. Aunt Bethany* " Yes, but it's a great deal more solemn not to be," said her niece. ' "The man in the moon" is looking as bright as a Button, though this is the dark j quarter; ' Mr Button lectures on the "Moon ♦' on Thursday night, in aid of the ! Sailors' 'Rest."' *' '> ' ' ' •. „ . • ' ■ , " Dinnis, darlint, och Dinnis, what is it you're doing?" » «*• Whißht, Biddy, I'se trying 1 art experiment 1 !"' '♦Murther ! what is it V ' " What is it; did you< say t Why, it ig giving hot wather 'to the chickens' l am, so that they'll be aftiher laying .boiled j eggs !', " ;">'. i- - ! Louis' Peterson, while -working in the Hauraki gold mine, Thames, has had his right arm badly j fractured by- a heavy stone falling oA itfrotnthe^obf. 1 • : ' Wm. M'ackelvie,' a settler at Makara,' jneatf 1 (Wellington, kept his savings in a wooden" box under 1 his bed. He has now cause to rub adopting this primitive method of A bankirig^having been" robbed of £547 while a short time away from the house*