BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3465, 21 March 1890, Page 2

BREVITIES.

- Cloudy. ;r ■Welcome rain, Barometer falling. . Tlio South Australian Parliament has beon.diesolvcd, ' Tommy says its hard lines now a days, Early risers ' coino in and ask' for a penny-worth of beer. Sickness in Masterton School, Medical report to bo prociiredj Agitation tor now school.' Infaufs school crowded out, , / Many of the mill'? and 1 factories :i in Lancashire, the Midlands and Cheshire are ceasing' work owing jto; s the decreased output of coal. ' ' '' The Ontario Assembly hasproliibited tlieisale of liquor to membora. Wby not introduce a similar system in New Zoalaud ?

|. The ' Portuguese press expresn a desire to cease diplomatic relations wi th England, and publish .attacks oa v the Prince of Wales; 5. 1 ' v J(J f;■ jjL Several assaults on woman been reported to the police in Sydney, but no arrests have yot been effected. The criminal supposed itqtefaa/# } j escaped luiaktic * 1 ' '

. There is nothing like good advertising. -An undertaker has struck out an original line in announcing his funeral in the following terras: " Why livo and bo miserable when you can boburiedforißlos. 1 ' l ".How much didyou'.iay.this mfl'fi 1 " Three-and-six." " That's a big price, isn't it?" "Oh no, I assuro you, the drugs aro very costly"." But lam fi druggist,myself." ■ "Oh, you, ■} are, Woll—of course—fourpenco," ilf/tboro is one time mora than another when a woman should bo entirely alone, it is when a full line ofolothtscopdowjiiti the mud,]? y t j,j "At ,ono time a women' could A !vI hardly walk through the streets of San Francisco without having every one. pause to gaze on her, and a child was so rare that once, in a theatre iu tho. same city where a woman had''% taken-her infant, when it began to cry, just as tho orchestra began, to play, a man in tho pit cried out 1 Stop those, fiddles and let the baby cry. I baV'nlt 1 heard such a sound for ten years;' . The audience applauded this sentiment, tho orchestra stopped, and the baby tontinued its performance nniid unbounded enthusiasm," •