NOTABILIA

Observer, Volume 2, Issue 27, 19 March 1881, Page 5

NOTABILIA

— This is the alliterative statement of an American paper concerning a farmer who gained the first prize in a cattle show, and died from joy the same evening ; "He as boast the best beast bust last night." — "The light that lies in woman's eyes" is created by the Almighty, but the lightness that lies in woman's bread can only be made by using Hudson's Baking Powder. — Fashions are changing every day. The " Pellererin Paskevitcb." is the latest style. Particulars and material can be obtained at the establishment of Messrs. Munro and Milligan, Karaugahape-road. — Those persons who assert that Christianity is losing its hold upon our people nre evidently nonchurch goers. Clergymen to-day, command higher salaries and women wear more expensive clothes to church than ever before. —In consequence of the unsettled state of the weather during: this summer, some of our city drapers have yet on hand large stocks of light clothing. It is said that T. McMnster, Queen-street is offering' special bargains to lessen his stock. — "Sublime Tobacco! which from East to West cheers the tar's labour or the Turkoman's Rest." So writes Byron, but if you require practical proof, go and ask Partridge and "Woollams for some of their last; importation. — It is stated a handsome piece of plate (delf) is to be x>reseuted to Harry Richmond, the genial and popular host of the Nevada Hotel, for discovering a cure for neuralgia. Trial doses may be had, price sixpence each. — Mr. Cook has commenced business in the electro-plating line, and some of his work is worthy of inspection. A card basket made from fern leaves, and a bedroom candle stick made from a vine leaf, Canterbury bell and fern leaf are particularly noticeable, the natural plant being coated over with silver. — "Jewels five words long, that on the stretched finger of all time sparkle for over." When Tennyson wrote the above, he was doubtless thinking of Singleton's sliop in Victoria-street, where you can procure jewels that will sparkle for ever, and two or three days longer. — It is said that some lady asked Mrs. Gladstone how Mr. Gladstone was bearing up in the great Irish crisis. "He does not think it n. crisis ; nor can he be imieh affected by it," replied Mrs. Gladstone, " I hear him every morning singing in his bath." " He's like a kettle, then.' said her friend, which sings when full of hot water." — The old maxim of medical men is, "keep your head cool, and your feet dry," and by following 1 this advice, old age may be attained. Boots made by Garrett Bros, from leather tanned in their establishment under their immediate supervision, can be relied on, to keep the feet all right. It rests with yourself to keep your head cool. — An Irishman knows how to pay a complment, but he does not always put it in the right place. A beautiful young lady happened to shudder, and afterwards said, " Some one is walking over my grave." Patrick could not lose the chance to say something very polite, and so he replied. "Oh, my lady, I only wish that I were the happy man." — A thoughtful mother christened her boy " Ray," with the impression that it would be a difficult one for his companions to nickname. The first time the lad returned home from school he informed his gentle parent that the boys called him " Snootsey," and the stunned woman couldn't imagine how " Ray" could be corrupted into such a beastly appellation. — A Southern bench of magistrates had a man before them last week, charged with assaulting- his wife and attempting to cut her throat. He had been in prison before for ill-treating her and she only saved herself on this occasion by running away. Instead of marking their sense of the man's attempt— though failure — to murder his wife, the bench actually refrained from punishing him, because they said "they wore anxious to give him another chance !" — "When Captain Jones came home from his last voyage, he learned that he had been made a widower. He received the neighbourhood's condolence in a becoming manner till one of the women folk ventured to breathe into the bereaved man's ear the last word of his late helpmate. Then the old Adam asserted itself. "Oh, bother!" he cried, " don't talk to me of last word. She always had that ever since I married her, and it would be only like her to have it dying.