ODDS AND ENDS.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 36, 9 February 1884, Page 5

ODDS AND ENDS.

Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, though 80 yours of age is still of handsome lobust Poim. Hit, hair and beard, however, are both snow white. Wo arc informed, says the Pall Mall Gazette, on the bust .MithorJty.fh it the statement published in the papei - concur img the acceptance of a peerage by Mr Tennyson i.-> unauthorised. Visitoi (togiited amateur): " I realiv must compliment you upon your excellent make-up." Gifted Amateur : u YLike-up ? [ haven't touched my face yet " Visitor : tl Not made up ? Why, I 'think you are dimply splendid." A Greek once leproved Tasso for speaking ill of his country in the "Jnrusalem Delivered," and .said that the ensure vms uiijiHt, r-mee all the virtues came from Greece. " indeed they did," said Tasno, 'not leaving one behind them.'' We.iklr AnirLteiii (with a \ oc.il organ >n him like unto that of a clicking do\ c, ;>la\ing Maciluff) : '-Ha! H.i ! My voice sin my sword! Cntic in the g'dleiy : •'That's all light, then, olemimibleehimip; we were woudeiing up heie wnere it were." " Mr White, said a lawvor to a witness 111 the box, •' at tlu: time these pripeuwuv executed yon were speculating, wei,' yon not?" " Yes sir." " You were in oil V" " I wis." << And wh.it are you in now ?" "Bankruptcy," u-as Hie solemn re})ly. A old butgay Lothario, noitcinn aprettv gill alone in a railway can i me, opened the door and smilingly ask\d, " Aic these seats engaged, Mis-.?" •' Ko, sir, but f am, and he is going- to get in at the next station," shoansweied. "(Oh— ah— indeed — J hanks — beg pardon!" and looking wry foolish, he hurriedly entered a smoking carriage. The ni.innfactuio of egg> is being carried on in the United Slates on a large scale, one establishment turning out upwdids of 1000 an hour. The yolks are formed of a paslo composed of cornflour, .starch, and other nuteiials. The whites ,ue formed of albunien, and are chemically identical with the whites of eggs. The inner skin is a film of gelatine, 1 lie shell is plaster of Paris, and is rath 'i thicker than the teal ai tide, while they have the advantage of keeping perIcctly good for a year, and can be more t a>ily tiansported than ordin.uy eggs, from the greater btrength and thickness of the shells. They can be flavoured. The most assiduous hen has so far failed in producing chicks fix m these eggs; but, except for hatching t'ley are in all lespects oqu.il to the o.'iginaK lie was telling the stirv in tho hilliardrooni of a Denver hotel. Said he : " Theic was tin eo of us you sec, and Ncvad i was a cold climate for us. We were dead broke, half staivcd, and clean discouraged, when along came a New Yorker. He wouldn't play cauls, wouldn't be robbed, •iiul we couldn't stick him witli foi ged land patents or bogus pre-emptions. One day we trailed out and dug a hole into a hill and salted it a bit, and rushed back and offered the N*ew Yorker the big discovery for ;5000 dollars cash down." •' And he bit?" " Took right hold like a pair of pincers. Why, he never even stopped to beat us down. We got a cool thousand a-pieee, and made for 'Frisco." •' Purty cool that was." "' Well, 1 dunno. [f there was anything cool in that transaction it was the way that New Yorker hunted up a, pard, set miners to work, bought machinery, and took over 750,000 dollars out of that 'ar hole inside of eight uunths ! Maybe we got over feeling- ilat, but I guess not."