MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1751, 16 June 1888, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A paradox —-GraßS windows I are never green. •!.''•. It is when Parliament is sitting I that there are most stand-up fights. A society contemporary informs a correspondent that " the bride should always be led to her carriage." iTes, as the bridegroom is always led to his trap. j A Sydney paper says that; Queens-, land squatters are paying £SO a bead for diseased rabbits. What unboly extravagance! They might get a nun-, dred healthy rodents for, half! the money.. } Whitaker and Grieve were jthe principals io a wedding which transpired in North Melbourne lately As Grieve was the lady's name, "iwhy, take her?" was a very reasonable query. L • A large fissure, a quarter of a bile long and of great width, has opened in the earth at Wollombi, New Sputh Wales; and yet the unemployed Icon- \ tend that there are no openings in the interior. i "j

An eagle attacked the poultrjy in the yard of a Ballarat hash foundry one day recently. The fight which ensued "excited much interest, but the boarders all backed the poultry, j and' thev won. •■>'"''

A man in Ballarat hung an old horse shoe on his door to bring good luck, and next day it fell down as he was entering and knocked his eye out. He doesn't believe in those old sjiper- : atitions as he used to. j

"Tour husband is a very bad one; I'm afraid/' said a magistrate !• to a complainant who. 'Was adorned j with two lovely black eyes. "You're right, sir," replied ; the injured party. "Still, after all, sir, he's better than no husband at all, and I hope you'll let him off this time," she continued, in an apologetic tone, ; A Schilling corset company is advertising its wares. Undertakers will be pleased to know that tight-lading is now .within the reach of the poorest.

"It .has been discovered," says an agricultural writer, " that fresh eggs are much* lighter than the rotten article." This may be so, but we know from .experience that, the (latter are much' harder to bear. j A remedy for burns, proposed by M. Dubois,' consists in allowing the contents of a syphon of seltzer water to flow slowly over the affected parts. He ascribes the. good effects to the carbonic acid gas/And to jthej local lowering of tne temperature. \ The wedding of William Merry and Miss Joy has ■. been celebrated at Bischoff, Tasmania. Our lyre, —the golden one : - O, William Merry; here's a greeting ; Take it with tby wife : ' Whilst pleasures most are flying, fleeting, Joy be thine for life! And may she who, in bashful seeming,

Toys with orange sprays, And by thy side stands blushing, beaming, Be merry all her days 1