MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1189, 10 June 1884, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

If you want to see a telegraph boy run watch him on Ills way to dinner. White huirs arc. the foam-poinU which cover tha sea after the tempest. The heart onuses us to do stupul things; the hand makes us avoid them.

It is of love as oT soup ; the first spoonfuls are too hot, the last too cold. Less than 1 per cent, of the girls of India, of the school-going age, are under instruction at school. An International Book Exhibition is to be opened at Lei;-: i."in May, under the auspices of the Germa n Booksellers' Union. A Boston journal publishes on account of the first draft of Longfellow's 'Excelsior,' which is preserved in tha library of ETarvard Col'ege. Wells' ' Hough on. Corns.-'—Ask for Wells' Rough on Corns.' Quirt relief ; -iompU'.to, permanent cura. Corns, warts, b«]nio':s. New Zealand Drug Co., General A rents. 1

Professor Knenen's revision of his introduction to the Old Testament is to be translate'! from the Du'ch by a wellknown English clergyman. The chapters relating ta the Pentateuch and Joshua were translated by tho late Dr CcJohbo.

The man who follows a good example mast, of course, be behind it. Whea Dr Chapman was dining at an hotel he was served with what was called barley soup on the bill of fare. ( That is not barley soup,' said he to the waiter, ' it in barely soup,' A customer in a restaurant takes a boiled «{g and makes a wry fac, which leaves a doubt about the egg'a freshness. ' Waiter,' he cries, ' how long do you keep your eggs V ' Until they are eaten, sir.'

An Austin younjr. man was seen coming hurriedly out of a business house which he bad entered to solicit employment as salesman. * Did the boss engage you as a salesman 1" ' No, he wanted me 10 travel,' was the ambiguous reply. Difference of Value. Passenger : ' How long hare you be employed on th e street cars V Driver: Fifteen year—-ban-in' whin I was sick.' 'Passenger : You must be a great favorite with the company?' Driver: 'Ha! ha I lift I D've see that owld grey mar© I'm dhrivin't Well, we both fell sick together ut wanst last wiut«r. They sint a dochter for the horse, an' they sint me me resignation.' Victor Hugo has been visited by a delegation of Mormons, who urged him to join their body, and endeavored by appeals to his poetic sens* to make a convert of him. Such at least is the story that is going the rounds of German newtpApsrs, which assart further, that the aged poet's visitors introduced two Mormon girls to him, and gave him to understand that he might hare them both as wives if he should conclude to become a follower of Brigham Young. Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Counsel for tbe delicate.—Thosd to whom the changeable temperature is a protracted psriod of trial should seek the earliest opportunity of removing all obstacles to good health. This cooling; Ointment, persevering'y rubbed upon tbe skin, is the most ratable remedy for overcoming ell diseases of the throat and chest. Quinsey, relaxed tonsils, sore throat, swollen glands, ordinary catarrh, and bronchitis, usually prevailing *t this teason, mjy be arrested as soon as discovered, and every aymplom banishtd by Holloway's simple and "tffectiva treatment. This Ointment and Pills are highly commanded for the facility with which th»y successfully contend with influeoza; they allay in an incredibly short time the distressing fever and teasing cough.