ODDS AND ENDS. (FROM OUR EXCHANGE.)

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 40, 8 March 1884, Page 7

ODDS AND ENDS. (FROM OUR EXCHANGE.)

Said a philosopher — " My friend conducted his future vI to to the altar — and here his le.id.,'r>hip cam.' to an end." One hundred and ninety thousands person^ were committed to prison last yeu.i in England. u Have you brought your gimlet with yn\ V" •' Jlush, Johnny,' 1 .s.iid Mr.s Yeiger. •' Go to bed, sir," leinarkcd (Jolont-1 ier»'er. u What do yon nieiin ?" naked Gus. " 1 don't mcm nudin ; except I heaid Pa say you were coining up this evening* to bore ii-, all."

WOMAN'S KIGIITS. Tlif light to u'<it;;h wliilo others sleep. The rig 111 o'er others' woes to weep, Tin: right to succour in distivss, Tlu light when others cuive to bless, Tho right to love when others .scorn, The right to coin Tort all who mourn, The right to shed new joy on earth, The right to fe.-l the soul's hii;h worth, The right to lead the soul to God Along tho pith her Si\ionr trod ; {Such women's rights God will bless And crown bur chdinpion with succcs'?. Jennie Wood. The alarm at the increasing density of the network oi telephone wires in London does not subside. Almost cvejy day the <lr.igging* of a new wire- across the old onus brings home the fact that the leading streets of the mel'opolis are being systematically roofed in. No less tmn 1400 telegraph and telephone wires, it is skid, stretch across I/eadenhall stieet. Over Queen Victoiia, stieet the)' intersect each oilier.

A C'UKB FOR DIPHTHERIA. Put ii ttMspuoni'iil ol flour oL brimstone in ii wine glass hill of water and stir with the linger insto id oi" a spoon, as the suli hur docs not amalgamate with water. When the sulphur is well mixed give it as a gargle, and in two minutes the patient is out oC danger. Brimstone kills every species ol! fungus in ninn, bctist, or plant in a few minutes. Instead of spitting out the gargle, •■wallowing is much better. Jn extreme eases, when the fungus is too nearly closed to allow gargling, blow the sulphur Lhiough a quiii into the throat, anil after the fungus has shrunk follow with the gargling. If the patient cannot garble take a live conl put it on a shovel, and sprinkle a spoonful of brimstone upon it, and let the sull'orer inhale it by holding his head over it. The fall in the value of: land in the United Kingdom since 1879 is strikingly shown in tho annual veporc of the Ooniinishiouer.-} ot Inland Revenue for the year ending March- 3 1st, 1883, recently pubiici.i^i. iKio giu-o aunual value of lands

isseßsed mid -r Scliedu'o A. in 1881-82 in the United Kingdom was 4*08,81 1 .0.12— I) -ing* a decrease of 4i480,9-JJ us compared wilh 1880-81. But tin* was not -til, for sums were paid on account or 1 agricultural distress during the yen r cijn il to m assessment of 41,243,104 ; »o th i ihu total do'•ron«e of minimi va'u° of land* in 1881-82 Was £1,724 O4f>. In t>c thioe ctis, IHJ<) •iO, 1880-81, >md 1881-8-2. the tot.il decrease was equivalent to an assemblage value of £3,728,603. ll' this he taken 'nt twenty-three yours' purchase, it shows n decrease in :he value of hind of no less than £85,700,2-1 i). The decrease, at any rate in the last year of the three, has been within a small fractional percentage the same in England a .d Scotland. It is astonishing, .says the Troy Times, what large farms in the United State* are owned by titled Englishmen. Of individual owners there are Sir George Heed, 2,000,000 acres ; Earl of. Ihuunore, 100,000 acres ; Karl of Dunraven, 60,000 acres ; Duke of Sutherland, 40,000 acres ; the next largest faims aic owned by Phillips, Marshall and Co., I,3oo,ooo acres heir.-, of Colonel Murphy, 4,100,000 aore n ; 11. Piston, 12,000,000 acres; Standard Oil Company. 1,000,000 acres and scores of others. Nwe men own a territory equal to that of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Uhode Island combined. Then there arc great railroad corporation^, whose free gift* of land from profli<_>..te Congress amount to 200,000,000 acres. Eleven of these corporations have been given 120,000,000 acres. The Northern Pacific road has received the biggest slice, 47,000,000, and the grants have ranged all the way from 1,000,000 acres nnd upward. China is vigorously preparing for War. Cork-screws have Mink more people than cork jackets will ever keep up. A bulldog in London was recently sold for £5,000. "This is a net gain, "as the spider said when he caught a fly. Missus-understanding. — Mistress (act ing on " information received"): I wish to impress upon you, Bridget, most emphatically, that I allow no followcis."— Bridget :" An' it's quite right yu are, ma'am. They're a duMitel'ul lot. If I cLtch any followers .snakin' round ye, ma'am, 'specially millintary follower-., I'll folly them wid the kitchen poker." A bachelor and a spinster who had been schoolmates in youth, and were about the same ago, met in after y i >rs, and the lady chancing to remark that ' men live a gruat deal faster than women.' The bachelor returned : ' Yes, Mirie, the last tini- 1 we met we were each twenty-four years old ; now I'm over forty, and I hear you haven't reached thirty yet.' They never met again. A woman's advice is generally worth having ; so, if you are in any trouble, tell your mother, or your wife, or sister, all about it. Be nssnred that light will flash upon your darkness. Worn are too c^i - monly adjudged verdant in all but pun y womanish affairs. No philosophic students of the sex thus judge them. Th'ir intuition*-, or insighti, are. the most subtle, and if they cannot see »i cit in the meal, theie is no cat there. A man, theiefort,, should koeu non^ of his ail ah s a secret from bis wife. Many a honu has ben happily saved, and many a fortune retrieved, by a man's full confidence in his wife Woman is far more a seer and 'i prophet than man, if she be given a fair chance. As a general rule, the wives confide the minutest of their plansand thoughts to their hiihbands>. Why not reciprocate, if but for the pleasure of meeting c.iniidence with confidence ? The men who succeed be--t in life aiv, those who make conjida.ites of their wives.