INTERESTING ITEMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1002, 17 February 1882, Page 2

INTERESTING ITEMS

"The source of weakness to every nation under heaven," Bays Josh Billings, "oomea from the/fact that,its women have so little to do and so ranch to say."

~' The first Amerioab flag used by the citizens of California is still in, existence. The people made it themselves^^-Ssi to buy a sea-man's shirt irftaWh 'get the blue. : ' :, W/*

The Marquis of Tweeddale; just elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom, is a pronounced Freethinker; and recently appeared on the platform at Northampton at a meeting in support of Mr Bradlaugh, M. P. The Marquis wis a Scotch representative Peer for years, but was not chosen latterly on account of his religious opinions.

Last summer Mr Labouchere sought medical advice concerning what he thought was disease of the heart, cancer of the stomach, and creeping paralysis. He had. been accustomed to taking a sponge bath; but his physician said, " Every morning on getting up remain in a hot bath for five C minutes, then soap yourself all over and then take a cold douche." The advice was taken and Mr Labouchere reoovered.

A movement is likely to be set on foot north of the Tweed to have the Bust of Burns plaoed in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, It is natural that Scotchmen should wish to see their ploughman bard finding a place among the memorials of so many mighty dead; but had the idea been suggested to him wheh alive, he would have resented it most strongly,

A ring of large emeralds and brilliants, now in the possession of (he family of England, and wbioh onoa, belonged to the renqwned Admiral §iy Cloudesley Shovel, drawqed of the Soj||y Islands iu his warship in 17Q7» has quite a history. An old woman once confessed to her pastor on her death-bed that sfiq found the Admiral exhausted on tho shore and Wiled him for the plunder,'"' _ The'! Buffalq : Cqu'rier" wp'\- !i '4 s & disinterested pjbseper we are disptjseq tq think that if those who seek to onaiJQg Raping wpulcj .strfva' ratfiro'to make it modest and l)ealtl)fqj than tq kil| it by their criticism, something might be done in the way of both moral and sanitary reform. The attempt to abolish dancing altogether seems to ,be entirely thrown away, for if it be an evil, it is one of those evils which human nature has always indulged in."