MAGAZINE TIT BITS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 72, 14 March 1908, Page 3

MAGAZINE TIT BITS.

AN IRISH 'TALI:

One day an Irishman, having put his hat upon it gate-post by which lie lay down to sleep, sprang up at midnight, and mistaking the object for an enemy, dealt it a desperate cut with his scythe. Perceiving his mistake, the man gave thanks to Heaven that he had taken it oil before lying down. " For," said he, " had my head been in that hat, 'tis ten to one I had laid it open with my scythe, and 'tis a dead mam I would Uave been seem' mesilf at this minute!" —The Captain.

JAPAN'S POLICY IN KOREA,

1 am sometimes asked why I, an Englishman and a loyal subject of the country that is in alliance with Japan, should so" openly attack the Japanese policy in Korea. 1 do so because I believe that policy to be unjust to a weaker face, charged with cruelty, permeated by tiie lowest form of political trickery aiid falsehood, and injurious to Japan itself, to British interests, and to the Christian religion—F. A. McKenzie in The Sunday Strapd,

TO PLEASE A MAX

It pleases a man to be asked for his advice. Most men have advice to gj.'e away, and they are always willing to bestow it 011 their women gratis. U pleases a man for a woman to depend 011 liini and to show him her new gowns or hats, and to ask if he likes them. A man likes his wife or sweetheart to recognise the fact that he takes a great interest in her attire, and so, if you wish to put your lover in a good temper, ask his advice.—Woman's Life.

'i i i i'; Mj OF I'KRFC.UI'

(irasse is a paradise of llowers. The perfume manufactories of which this busy town ts composed look ilown, year in and year out, upon a bonneted army oi workers stooping lu a magnificent expanse of bloom. It is an expanse of ever-changing colour. This month it will bp red, next month, perhaps a gorgeous yellow, and in still another month it will be blue, or some other colour \>f the rainbow. Only those who have been fortunate enough to see the wonderful carpel of llowers with which this sunkiisert valley of the Alpes-Jlaritjmes is covered, or who have' seen that other floral wonder which makes the dunes of Holland a paradise in May, can h:Ke a real idea of what Grasse is like,—-The Wide World Magazine.

nuMimioi'Ni) Ti!A('!>iY(i,

The bloodhound does not necessarily follow blood. He hunts what is technically termed "the clean boot." Tint is the hound follows the trail of the hunted person without any adventitious aid. ami it is the possession and gradual development of this particular quality which makes him so interesting a possession In the sportsman, and renders bloodhound [racking a sport which large parties can engage, with all the plfasure of Ihe chase.—l'ry', Magazine.

SENSITIVE PLANTS.

There are plants so sensitive that if. when standing hy them, you should suddenly put up your umbrella or sunshade, it would be quill' sufficient to cause !hcm ijistanlly 10 close together their leaflets and turn down their |eaf-stalks, just as if they were startled and alarmed bv Ihe movement. Indeed. 011 a suunv dav. when the temperature v sullicicntly liigli. you need not make e\eij -.0 decide,] a movement : uiur.'h your shadow coining in contact wllli their leaves will often cause them to fall slightlv.-Thc Strand Magazine,