SCRAPS FOR THE CURIOUS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1641, 22 March 1884, Page 3

SCRAPS FOR THE CURIOUS.

At a sale in Worcestershire, a short time since, some old tankards and spoons of the period of James 11. and Anne were bought in at the almost incredible rate of 38s per ounce. In early times the method of executing criminals in Holland was to confine them solely to the use of bread in which no salt was contained, and which ultimately occasioned death by engendering a fatal form of disease. The late Mr Richard Russell, had a rente's share at Drtiry-lane Theatre, where he used to go almost every evening; and notwithstanding his immense fortune, his penury was so great that rather than give a trifle to any of the woman who attended in the box lobby to take care of the greatcoats he used constantsy to pledge his for a shilling at a pawnbroker's near the theatre and redeem it when the performance was over, which cost him one halfpenny interest. Judge Jeffreys found a plcasme in boasting that lie had hanged more persons for high treason than all the judges of England since William the Conqueror. And in the sums received for his pardons and reprieves this infamous judge found a more solid delight, for, on his return irom the commission in the West of England, lie was enabled by the sums so received to purchase estates amounting in value to nearly £40,000.

The London papers generally supply statistics of the number of quarts of turtle soup consumed at (lie Guildhall banquet on'the 9th November, but we seldom encounter anything concerning the amount of wine drunk. The teetotallers will learn with horror that the quantity of champagne supplied for the Lord Mayor's guests this year was 2500 quart bottles, the brands being Pfungst's well-known Carte d'Or, Piper Sec, and Heidsick, As the height of ut cliampague bottle is ut foot, the " dead men," if laid end to end would form a line half a mile in length. REMEMBER THIS. If you are sick Hop Bitters will surely aid Nature in making you well ■when all else fails. If you are costive or dyspeptic, or aro suffering from any other of the numerous diseases of the stomach or bowels, it is your own fault if you remain ill, for Hop Bitters is a sovereign remedy in all such complaints, If you arc wasting away in any form of Kidney disease, stop tempting Death this moment, and turn for a cure to Hop Bitters.

If you arc sick witli that terrible sickness Nervousness, you will find it " Ualm of Gilead" in the use of Hop Bitters.

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A young man sought .to securo his sweetheart by strategy, so lie took her out for a boat sail, and threatened to jump overboard into the river if slio didn't consent to many him. But it did not work. Slio offered to bet liiin a sovereign that ho daren't dive in, and lie wouldn't bet.

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The Prince of Wales has inaugurated a series of dramatic performances " by command" at Saiidriugliam. There was soma difficulty in deciding who should have the honor of first call, but the matter was set at rest by according it to the universally popular Mr L, J. Toole and'his company.

Thick heads.—Heavy stomachs, bilious conditions—" Wells' May Apple Pills"—antibilious, cathartic, oil aiul Is, N. Z, Drug Co.

The latest discovery in regard to Shakespeare is that lie detested- dogs, an English writer announcing that lie " looked upon them all more or less as curs, snappish and cowardly. Sir Henry Holland once lost a bet of one guinea owing to his failure to find a dog spoken kindly of by Shakespeare.''

A Scolding Womas.~Tlio barbarities of | the ducking-stool for the euro of scolding women, though abolished by law, aro now oftentimes practiced by a kind of social barbarity none the loss reprehensible, Women scold when they arc ill. instead of blaming them we should prescribe Hop Bitters, The entire system will undergo a genial, pleasant change, The nerves will bo quieted ami acerbity of word and thought will give place to amiability and affection. Healthy women (3o not scold or fret, Eeid Kate Castlcton's song. "I'orgoodness sake don't say 1 told you," was soundly hissed at Burlington, U.S., lately

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