In Brief.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 135, 2 January 1886, Page 5

In Brief.

Girls can marry at the age of 11 years in the State of Maine. The Princess of Bavaria, who matried the Duke of Orleans, refuted the idea that women cannot keep a secret, by preserving to the time of her death the receipt for cooking red cabbage, which was one of the most prized and fashionable vegetables in the time of Louis XV. A young woman who wants to be a teacher is touched for by the local paper as "past the giggling age," but as "not too old to be a very agreeable companion." Mrs John C. Green, widow of the Princeton College patron, is worth £2,000,000. In Canada and Australia Qusen Victoria is known as " the Queen." In India she is called " the Empress." A New York physician has written an article entitled ' • Kissing as a Medium of Communicating Disease." It has long been known that kissing causes a species of heart disease, which terminates in matrimonial fever, and the victim dies sooner or later. Generally later. John Boylo O ; Reilly says : " Women are better than men because they are spiritual, while men aro intellectual. "The spirit follows what is true, gentle and good ; the intellect follows only what is pleasant, successful, dominating, strong. If women could rule, civilisation would be a poem " Mrs Garfield often visits the grave of her illustrious husband and sends flowers once a week to bo placed upon his coffin. M. Penali, a portrait- painter in Lyons?, was engaged to be married to Mile. Bernard, and a few days before the time fixed for the wedding he said to his flancee, "I hope you have paid deference to my antipathy and ordered all your clothes without a bustle." The girl smiled and replied, Sooner than wear a wedding-dress without a tournure I shall never wear any at all." The artist earnestly protested, and finally told her she must choose between him and her devotion to fashion. The result was not in his favour, and he lefb the same evening for, Egypt. k Sir .George Ballingall, when in India, witnessed a striking proof of the utility;? of ' flannel ia checking the progress of a most aggravated form of dysentery. j3uch-ex-. perience led to a general enforcement of , the use of flannel belts v or wraps by soldier a when on service in tropical climates,