ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 356, 24 February 1881, Page 2

ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

Collated prom our Exchanges . It was a very old remark (says the London Times) that children brought up chiefly on a milk diet, as contrasted with fle.sh, or too excessively bread, gro/t up taller, healthier, and stronger, as well as more lively, cheerful and happy. The free use o.f milk in some of our union workhouses has entirely changed the health, the looks, and the spirits of the children, insomuch as to lead some people to demand that every laborer's child should have the same advantage. No doubt it is a question between mild and strong drink. Few children brought up on the former care to touch even beer, or could be made to swallow even spirits, except by force. There is really some hope of a national return to the products of the dairy in preference to those of the brew, ery and the still. Literally millions of acres have been withdrawn from the cultivation of wheat to make dairies and grazing farms. The plough, which in the memory of man was seen in the suburbs, and even on the sites of public edifices in our great towns, is now not to be seen even within walking distance. The cow is there instead. The children are the better for it, and, if the improvement is not so palpable and; the children are not quite as they should be, we have to recollect the unfavorable atmospheric conditions in which they work, and live and sleep, ana even take their exercise. The crops are being fast cut down (says the Dnostan Times). Oats are expected to average 40 bushels, and about a ton and a half of straw to the ncrs. Such, yields should pay the grower well. Most people (says the Southland Times) are unaware that it is contrary to the j municipal bye-la wa to graze animals on '

unenclosed land within the borough, Jiotwithstanding that they are tethered. The. Inspector said he did not press for a penalty, but wished it'to, be understood that the practice, %ljieli was dangerous to children and was illegal, and would not be permitted." A fine of. Is wasP~~~ imposed. On one occasion, while still without the bfur, the late Sir Alexander Cockburn had to. examine a witness named Phinn, and asked, " Well., sir, how do tliey spell your name, with an F or. a Ph?" "Some, spell it one way. and somje anoiher, I believe," replied the 1035.. '"*'■ Yes ; but I presume there is a right way and, a way, eh?." "Oh, certainly," assessed the witness.. "Very good," rejoined Cockburn, now certain of his quarry, "How do yon spell it yourself?" *'Oh,> I—l—l don't spell it ! I alwaysmake my-* mark ! " Cockburn sat down, defeated. A man has invented a chair that can be adjusted to 800 different positions. It ia designed for a boy to sit in while having his hair cut. A youngster joyfully assured his mother the other day that he bad found out where , they made horses ; he had seen a man I finishing one—" he was just nailing on the.*** last foot." H A Frenchman who attended a foxhunt j was asked where the meet came off. He j had been thrown ; so lie replied that it j came off his 4 hands and knees. . j " Soldiers must sadly dishonest," said Mrs. Partington. "It seems to be an occurrence every night for a sentinel. * to be relieved of his watch." A St. Louis rich man drew up a will / which was so pathetically worded that it moved ali his relatives to tears. It left all his property to an, orphan-asylum. "'"-"" Proctor says the ocean contains about 2,590,000 tons of water. This tallies with our figures the last time we weighed, it, but there have been several heavy rains since, ' Mamma," said H«nry Thomas, a. bright little fellow over in Algiers; "Mamma, have my loes got eyes?" " No, my darling, why do you ask such a foolish question ? " " Because my foot is. asleep." Sunday school scholar, to the teacher. "•Did you say that the hair of my head was all numbered ?" Teacher: "Yes, ray dear." S. S, scholar : " Well, thou,", (pulling out a hair and presenting it) *• what's the number of this one V " A promising youth .recently surprised, his father by asking: do you. like mother?" "Why, yes, of course.!' <M " And shu likes you ? " "Of course does." " Did she ever say so? " " a time, my aonj; '-iJ)?:H she marry loved you T" "Uertaitjjj. fi j Je ' " .*, did.' 1 The boy carefully scriuiuisijfcig' ;i parent, and, after a long pause, asijfct vt " "VVell, was she as near-sighted as s*ie is ' 3 now 1 " M Little George was taken to churc'i laSLt JSunday for the first time. Of course he v' was plied with questions when he got \ - home- what did he think of this, that, aod j' the other ! What did he see, and what j did. he hear I ' What did the minister '■ say, Georaie I!_' asked his mother. 'He : said, DreatDod ! dust way pnpa did todder day when he was putting down carpet, and hit his finger with urn yammer." 'lt's better to be born lucky than rich.» This will probably be the opinion of most ."_ people on reading the following incident, related by_ a; Queensland journal:—A party of Chinese took it iDto their heads to chip a boulder of stooe'atthe Margaret river, and found ins'de 700 ounces of. gold. Dozens of people had sat on it, and a party of, miners made their fire against it regularly. 'John,' he plenty savee, and scored the trick to the tune of £2700. - . ■■■