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— . m The- common hue;''is <•'.*•"?**s&;?■ ~ nolo 1 - i~< -. ~ : ' - ■ ■■'■. C'opruiUiii" i.Fas rubbed ee - u e ;■,, i'alaco Ida; - Co. of ninety dollars. This ought to make -vearney feel good for a moid in i'bmyan sang, v lie thai is down need fear no fall." Ah, yes ; but if lie is down with the rheumatism, it's just the fall that makes lnra shiver. George Alfred Townsend has brought suit against Jim Anderson for infringement of patent. We don't care to say just what rights were covered by the patent. You can bring a libel suit for almost anything in this country. Three years ago a young man came to Burlington with only eighty-five corn's in his pocket. He invested all his capital in drug store.. Two weeks afterwards he put up two prescriptions, bought a steam yacht, a breechloacling gun and three dogs, and spends his summers in Europe. % It is a terrible thing to see a strong man writhing in the agonies of his first love, when bergamot, beer ami benzine struggle for the mastery in the air about him, and victory favours each one success:\v-iy, ns your nose approaches his hair, his mouth, or tiie elbows of his -coat. They do these things in Canada even ': '; : Si::- .we :;\ The creditors of the ■.. .--.;-. hi :..•;. i. in >].< ntreal, were glad, exceeding glad, to take ton cents on the dollar. Now. in America, a bankrupt hardly ever thinks of offering his friends less than thirty. i: Thirty or nothing," says he. (And they usually get nothing.) The members of the various churches throughout the United States are requested to give thanks, some time this Fall, that the. census shows that in all this broad reptdflic only six men know how to play lawn tennis, and four of them have publicly confessed theii shame and -swore off, and the other, two have been equally divided between the insane •asylum and the penitentiary. i How tender and soft is the voice of love, how low and sweet the tenderest lover that ever held a girl in his arms and jabbed a belt-pin about sixteen inches into his thumb, never was able to kiss his sweetheart on the front porch without startling the solemn voiceless night with a smack that scared the dog in his kennel by the alley -fence. Yesterday morn'ng a boy climbed up into one of the maples on Fifth .street as he could go, and then tried to I on a little further. The limb yielded, -snapped, auc down he came, crashing through the hough like a tornado, and •dropping on the ground with a thump Tike a bnss drum. A passing citizen. saw liUrfffall, and with a ce-y of horror ran to pick him up. To him the boy, slowly assuming an erect posture audi walking off with, assumed dignity, said : - You needn't holler, you old fool, you didn't make me do it, and you couldn't .neither." At the earnest solicitation of his many friends, a West Hill boy consented to allow his name and himself to go before a watermelon patch in the suburbs on Wednesday night. r ihe convention was somewhat discrdeilv, owing to the r .w .ranee of a strong delegation from ;..-■ i house that came in without :F .. iind ms : stod on being beard. :■•■. eliroiy : "-y< gular, of course, but : .e same the hoy was seized in an inverted attitude just as he was climbing over the fence, ami the chairman of the new delegation fanned Iris suburbs with a hedge switch until he consented. for the sake of pence and harmony, to withdraw, which he did, at the rate of about a thousand miles an hour. The very young gentlemen of South ilTill have a pernicious habit of chasing Jaftor the street cars at noon and ridinglon the step, thus inciting the driver to profanity and running great risk themvcives of bodily injury. Thursday noon -about thirty-five young gentlemen, just from school, were crowded on the step of the car on the Eight street grade, and one of them fell off and broke a hole in the macadamized street, and cried so loud that nobody in the neighbourhood "has read or talked or said prayers or slept a wink since. This is a true statement ; the boy is crying yet, and his mother says he had so many bruises on him that she had to spread mustard •plaster all over a sheet, and then could riot cover more than half of them. We hope this will be a warning to the young gentlemen never to steal rides on street cars unless they arc running over the grass.
} Axei-iouixo a House. —They toll a .•■ .-i.:' ;, ! ii-- v. ii'o was very . .mxia .s :■> ~-iv.' a an animal in j v.i.i.-; IF-FJ ga eiieman took but little ! stock, ami the/old lady finally won her ' point, and got her horse. The stood was of-an erratic and playful disposition, and Used, on the last provocation, to tear madly along' the beach, and succeeded in spilling the old lady several times. At last the captain, who had never driven the beast, volunteered to break him of his vicious habit; so getting another old salt to aid him, he procured a kedgc anchor with a stout line attached. Fastening the end of the, line around the axle, and putting the anchor in the waggon, the fiery untamed was hitched up and the two gents started out for a drive along the shore. (Soon the vicious charger espied something which gave him an excuse to run away, and immediately dashed off with frightful vivacity. The captain dropped the reins and summoned all hands to " let go the anchor." The anchor was let go, and caught firmly in the sand. The unsuspecting quadruped pranced joyously along until he got to the end of the rope, and thou he paused —paused so suddenly that the waggon was demo Fed, and the two old gentlemen shot up into the air like a couple of sky-rockets, coming down in a fearfully diianidaled condition. Ixsax;ty AXD its Causes.—Want of nutritious food, stimulating drinks, a dreary monotony of toil, muscular exhaustion, domestic distress, misery and anxiety, account largely, not only for the number u'i the poor who become insane in adult life, but who, from hereditary predisposition, are bora weakminded or actually idiotic ; among the middle classes, stress of business, excessive competition, failures, and also, in many cases, reckless and intemperate living, occasion the attack ; while in the uplior classes intemperate still works woe —and under this head must be comprised dipsomaniacs, who arc not confined in asylums. Y\ r hi!o multiplicity of subjects of study in youth and excessive brain work in after life exert a certain amount of injurious influence, under work, luxurious habits, undisciplined wills, desultory life, produce a crop of nervous disorders, terminating not nn frequently in insanity. Children of feeble intellect who are delicately reared are apt to become imbecile- when brought in contact with the cares of adult life. A considerable number of insane persons have never been whole minded people ; there has, it will he found on imp dry, been always som ■- lb my; a little pi.eu.iar about them, and win n their past life is interpreted by the attack which has rendered restraint necessary, it is -been that there had been a smouldering fire m ihc. constitution for a lifetime, though now for the first time bursting forth into actual conflagration. justly, modern society comprises a numerous c ! ass of persons, well-meaning, ex ;.-ii e. S;.' and morbidly ■•ensitive. rem" of terse are always mi the borderland between sanity and insanity, and their friends are sometimes i tempted to vish that they would actually e-o-s the iine end save them from constant harass. When they do, it is easy to make allowance for them audi their vagaries. Oftentimes the hue between sanity ami insanity is no b;roder than a hair. TllE AOKS OF DIrTEUEXT Axis-lAES. —ln a work by Lord Wrliam Lennox, enli'ied' Fashion, Now and Then,' just published in London, is the following parag"a;»'.;, relative to the ages of animals and such, which maybe entertain--ing as well as instructive to our younger readers : £; A bear rarely exceeds twenty years; a dog lives twenty years, a wolf twenty, a fox fourteen or sixteen; lions are long lived—one, named Pompey, lived to the age of seventy. The average of cats is fourteen years, a squirrel and hare seven or eight years, rabbits seven. Elephants have been known to live to the great age of four hundred years. When Alexander the (-Jre.it had! conquer 'd one IVrus King o India, he took a great elephant which had fought very valiantly for the king, named him Ajax, and dedicated him to the sun, and let him go with inscription •' Alexander, the son of Jupiter, had dedicated Ajax to the sun.' This elephant was found three, hundred and fifty-four years after. Pigs have been known to live to the age of thirty years, the rhinoceros to twenty. A horse has been known to live to the age of sixtytwo, but averages twenty or twenty-five. Camels sometimes live to the age of one hundred, Stags are long lived ; sheep seldom exceed the age of ten : cows live about fifteen years. Cuvier considers it probable that whales sometimes live to the-age of one thousand. Th • ' dolphin and porpoise attain the age of thiVy. An eagle died at Vienna at the age of one hundred, and four years. Havens have frequently reached the- age of one hundred. Swans have been known to live three hundred years, rir. ?.lallcrton lias tfie skeleton of a swan that attained the age of two hundred and ninety years. Pelicans are long lived, j A tortoise has been known to live to the ago of one hundred and seven." IXJ>KSTJ:UCTI J) J.,!-} iltOX. MY BoWoFs process of protecting iron from rust by coating it with a iilum ofmagantie oxide has been tried at Dudley (Fug.), and | has proved to be of so satisfactory a character that there is icason to believe that henceforth iron structures may be regarded as practically indestructible. Professor llori'fs process, it will lie remembered, consists iii subjecting the iron to the influence of superheated steam, but there are obvious difficulties in its ap-
plication, fn Air Dower's process it is : mr"ss:'A omv to heat tin.' iron to a cor- :;; ; . ; !;.;■.■; ..; sire ill a eloSrd chamber. , end to ;e:mh-the air at intervals, 'i he ! difficulties attending the use of super- '< heated steam are therefore avoided, and as. the expense must be comparatively small there is icason to hope that at least wo are in a position to settle the rust question, and iron will become par excellence the representative metal of civilsation.
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