BEER DRINKING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1271, 6 January 1883, Page 4

BEER DRINKING.

Those who kvts watched beerdrinkers, and have learned their habits says the Western Brewer, have made the discovery that different nationalities act, differently under the same circumstances. For i .stance, when a fly is found in a glass of beer ju.st as the drinker is about to drink, each nationality has a distinct course of action. The scientist who lis wacaed the matter says:—An American will joke about it and order a fresh glass. A Spaniard will pay for the beer, but quietly move on without touching it. A Frenchman will pay and go, but will loudly sputter. An Englishman will empty the jug and order another. A German will carefully fish out the fly and swallow the beer. A Russian will swallow buth the lly and the beer. A Chinaman will rescue the fly and eat it, and pour the beer under the table"

At Pilau, in Prussia there lives a women who has for some years conseorated her life to the noble and dangerous task of rescuing persons from drowning. Whenever a tempest comes on, day or night, Catherine Klenfeldt, who is tho widow of a sailor, is ready with a boat, in which she puts to sea and frequently goes farther than any other, in order to givo htqp to those •who may be shipwrecked. AJ ore >;han 300 individuals have been saved by her efforts; and, accustomed for twenty years to make voyages with her husband, she possesses a skill and hardihood that render these effort-; unusualh .successful. When she is seen, the greatest, respect is paid to her, and tin sailors rtgard her as their guardian angol; the very children of the fishermen go upon their knees to her, and Li.-.-tho skirt of her drew. The 'Prn.iOi:. and other Governments have decreed her medals, and the Principally -... Pilau has made lnr a -. henonry citizen for life, hhe is adout sixty years of age, with an ;.th<4ie ligura .of great strength (a Grace Darling enlarged into gigantic proportion*); she has a masonlhc conntence, which, however, h Eoftenecl by the benevolent expression that it constantly wears