MISCELLANEOUS

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 110, 11 July 1885, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS

Truth is mighty — scarce. Side issues —Whiskers. Bad news— Pneumonia and neuralgia, When the heart is full the lips are silent ; when the man is full it is different. Women are not inventive as a rule. They have no eagerness for new wrinkles. There are now 221 males and 108 females in the Auckland Lunatic Asylum. Ladies in waiting to Queen Victoria receive a stipend of £500 a year. If ignorance is bliss, it is folly to peep under the mince-pie cruet. Mr L M. Grace had enthusiastic meet ings at Taupo,Opotiki,and Whakatane, and his friends are confident of his success. Soggy pie is mentioned as one of the causes of dyspepsia. One of the causes of Boggy pie is young married women. •'There are many grown-up men in Maine," says Neal Dow, " who have never eeen a grog-shop or a drunken man." An important case wm argued in a New York Court a few days ago by a ninety-five-year-old lawyer. Lords Dufferin, Wellesley, and Mayo, each of whom has been Governor-General of India, were born in Ireland. Li Hung Chang, the Chinese statesman, is a man of gigantic stature. Mentally he is also heai and shoulders above his associates. The Botorua natives received the widow of the late Mr Robert Graham with a eympathetio " lamentation" on her return to the district. Chicago factories are said to employ 8,000 children under 15 years of age, 2,000 of whom are girls. All are compelled to work from ten to fourteen hours per day. Snuff taking has become fashionable among Isew York dudes, and the average dude is so weak in the legs that whe» he takes ft pinch it brings him to his sneeze.