BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3464, 20 March 1890, Page 3

BREVITIES.

Bummer wsatlieri v-'"' 1 ■'■■■' Another conflagration. The Kurijiimi Kre Brigade■'imrnS out, • ~ A public "nuisance not permitted to be destroyed,,,. ...:,..,;«, : ■■<' >• Insyeciion parade of tlieYolunteors. Good muster, :.<-., . ' [ . Pearson's band discourses svtiet jWtnces at 10 p.m. ■ Wairarapa party' successful' at Mahakipawa', Phillmrmonie. Society defunct. " Music bath charms," Ac. Extraordinary landslips occorriug in Queensland. Openings in tho earth. Residents terror stnclccii. %: , A medical man lias been arrested in Napier for bigamy.; /.' . .>/ Prince Bismarck,. of Germany, resigned the whole of his important offices. . . Duringn.fire, in Indianopolis, in Indiana, 18 fnemeii wore killed and 19 ijiiured. Ijisif'Kha'n is prepariug tomnko an incursion .'over tho 1 Afghan frontier. It is

can. ~' i/' : ': ■'■. , k ■•;■ Says a Western editor: "If we escape the Log cholera this Reason, there- will be a large, surplus of pork next fall." •* ; --'*^ > *'•■•" When a man aays VJ " I can.bear a noise," it probably s never' occurs to him that there is nothing in this wide world that anybody'can hear but a noiso, ~' ~ .-. ■ ... A careless, man' once proceeded to his cellar,-'and there stuck a candle in what h'o' supposed to be a keg of tck sand, 'lie sat near it drinking ie until the candle burned low; Nearer and nearer it got to the black sand, nearer and nearer, until it eventually reached it and—as it was nothing 'but black sand nothing happened, ' ; It is wise to believe that all thing's are for the best. 'M it's mighty hard to think so. when • a flea is meandoring up and down your back, altera are'sitting in the company of mreral ladies.'-' ! ' ' ' ■ •' ' '

A Vermont..man has a,;forly-year-old hen. 'iho other day a hawk pounced upon it and'carried it'off,, bat after an hour's absence returned with a broken bill and three claws gone, put down the hen and took an old rubber boot in place if it. One of the ,party-who recently visited the Tararuas asks,'! What is the difference-between a hill aiid a pill ?" We givfl.it up. ' ■•'■' Why, ono is hard to get up and the other is' hard to get dewn." Why, asks a contemporary, is a woman deformed when she is mending her stockings?,."Becauseher hands are where her feet ought to be." ,".-.. The smallest circular saw in practical use anywhere in the world is tl]|t which is. used in pen-making establishments -for-cutting in' gold pens, This pen saw is a tiny hard steel disc about thb, size-of a shilling,.and it is no thicker than a sheeUt ordinary paper. When hi use to revolve'about 4000' times a minute. ,-,','.'