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Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 363, 10 June 1874, Page 3

The well-known Mr. Charles Williams of " Monster Gridiron. " fame, and who ' has of late obtained a colonial reputation by his curious but v.cry useful h're-kindler? has hit upon a very happy plan of advertising, which cannot fail iij be ing successful. The inventor considered awhile on the best means of advertising his kindlers, and came to the conclusion that one of the best mediums of conveying the knowledge of his kindlers to the people, was by means of conversation lollies, which have just been issued. Mistress and maid alike now read, before digesting, the question ingeniously stamped upon the lollies, manufactured specially by Mr. Waters, of Queen-street, for the inventor, '' Do you use Williams' fire-kindlers ?" We notice these kindler-lollies as something original among the many modes of advertising which smart men of business adopt.—" Westport Times." - The following story of the ruling passion strong in life is told by the " Ballarat Evening Post": — "'A snake some 3ft. in length had been killed by some woodcutters in the neighbourhood and thrown across a fence, where it was espied by Mrs , who was at once struck with a happy thought, ller left arm was bound up in a handkerchief, and securing the dead body of the venomous reptile she rushed into Beaufort, describing how she had been bitten, but had succeeded in despatching the snake. Brandy was at once administered freely as an antidote, and this was repeated at so many hotels in the place that Mrs at length subsided by the wayside oblivious to everything. When the trick was discovered general indignation was expressed by those who had so readily administered the ' antidote,* and if their word is to be taken, it will require more than the production of a black snake to excite their generosity again." It has been found out why persons cannot sleep. It is because there is an accumulation, mainly of carbonic acid, that accumulation being favored and controlled by reflex action of the nervous system, which thus protects the organism from excessive oxidation, and allows the organism to manifest its normal functional activity throughout a succeeding rhythmic period." We should not have thought a little thing like this would have kept one awake. Persons who can*t sleep, however, should put some of the above things into their organism before retiring. To resuscitate a drowned Englishman, place a piece of beef under hi 3 nose ; an Irishman, a gillof potee ; a Scotchman, a half-penny ; a Welshman, a few leeks ; a Frenchman, a pinch of snuff; a Spaniard, some fresh blood ; an old maid, an offer of marriage ; a Yankee, attempt to pick his pocket. From a statement made in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly on the Bfch ult, by the Colonial Treasurer, it appears that the total public debt of the Colony to date amounts to £13,962,539, and that there is a balance of £689,040 at credit of consolidated revenue account. The Christchurch correspondent of the "Otago Daily Times" writes as follows :—: — We are just now blessed with an influx of a class of new-comers of quite an abnormal type. I allude to a class before utterly unknown in these Antipodean Colomes, sent out by fond parents for the good of their healths, with a flimsy useless education, a fifty -pound note beyond their passage-money, and brilliant prospects. I saw one of these splendid specimens of humanity the other night. He came in rather unceremoniously upon a circle of friends, assembled in a respectable hotel, somewhere about midnight, and addressed us in this wise :— " Gentleman, ah — oh, how do you do — ah (addressing me, the only acquaintance in the room)— Mr. "Smith, and gentlemen, ah — I have just now been subjected to the greatest indignity — ah — I assure you — ah — I ever experienced in the course of — ah— a chequered existence. Would you credit my statement — ah — when I say that when I came in heeah this evening, the waitah actually refused me a bed — ah — untii I elected to liquidate a small out-standing account— ah — for similar accomodation — ah — the other day —ah." The young man was attired faultlessly ; got up^fco to speak, regardless of conseqences—light hair, bine ©yes, eyeglass, exquisite jewellery, and belongings irreproachable. After the heartrending appeal to our feelings, the waiter in question appears to au order in the room. This nice young man rushes up to him and shakes his list in the waiter'sjface, and says : " I'll tell you what it is sir' I'll hammar you, sir, y I'll (emphasising the aspirate admirably) — ah — hammar you, sir," 'I he waiter, however, w.is obdurate, imperturbable, and the new importa- • tion vanished, into the darkness of night to some other establishment conducted upon . more refined principles, where pounds, ■ shillings, and pence are considerd too gross k and mundane to be drawn into the 'diurnal i category ' •