BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3466, 22 March 1890, Page 2

BREVITIES.

Weather again delightful. 1 Gain, of yesterday had a very deeirableefl'oct,.... Archbishop M'wood at 1 Te'-drt ? to-morrow. Cheap feed!' Masterton residents shortly to bo blessed'with a full-blown " uncle." : Alterations in the Electoral boundaries gazetted. Wairarapa still to have two members. The new boun.dr;es fj[ 'tis pleading to see, Do not otatyo^metobereaffect;'; : . i And tho'hext' contest-'thcre'll- bo The trusted and tried to ejjft, ■ Dunedin Exhibition to be definitely closed ou,April,l9lli, The attendance, , has J. £5 A woman cut to pieces while cross-; irig a railflny liue at Penrith, N.S.W. ' \ The .bottle found on the coast of: Queensland containing a slip of stating that the ship Enderby had been wrecked, is regarded as a hoax. ally worked block 'of land of about , 840 acres ! having been purchased by Mr W. F, Bucklaud and others., f , , : •, H/if. S, wliicA replaces jthe.Envon 011 the Australian station, has sailed for Melbourne, -..Owing to the miners strikes therei arei'half.a- million;, uuetnpjoyed in t Lancashire.' Tens % 'Of cotton;towns are idle?

Two people were talking science l tlifl oilier evening when a germ theory caiiio lindor discussion, "Just to think we,aro ; composed of geruis;" he exclaimed. " Why, tlion, we all; Germans." said she. " Yes," he "except the Irish, and they are all Microbes," f'i Young man," said the temporance ~ orator," if there was no liquor in the ! world you would not he standing at ' street |corue» out of work." " But you , would, 11 cried i voice from tin gallery. j "Ames, you have been lighting. I san Jell it by the look in your eye.' l ; ■ "Yes,-mother, but you should see the look iji the other boy's eye." .ir • h HQW incoMistnDt im aw I Whvij

a couple o{ th'tm toefyfonilig ilioA Solves with whielcy thoy ■ are sura, t< prefaco the dose'with well wishes fo each other's healtli. "Do you'know; Bridgot, that i you wash' y6ur face ' every day will hot, soap;'water, it'will mako'yoi beautiful " Will it ? SuVo itj a wornlor yo,u niver tried, it, ma'am." " I see a tiiittonlcss shirt advortisec here, Jack," said a wifo looking up from a paper. "What kind of : c shirt is that?" " JiiSt like mine," was tho reply, nnd tho wife resumed Jl her reading. J* During an unprecedented fog which hung iy'ef Jjpndoa i;econtly> 11 persons wore drowned in various parts of the city, by unconsciously walking into tho river, canals or docks, and a large number were.Beriously injured by falling into cellars, excavations, etc., or through being knocked down and run over by vehicles. ; < There is a plaque o£ rilts in Scotlaud ami cortain parts of Englaud.; Many hare been the means proposed for getting rid of them, but Mr Toni Speedy may take the cake for novelty S in this direction';- "In tho coarse of a lecture which ho delivered in Edinburgh, bo said that the best way lo exterminate the rodents would be' to make them valuablo. If they could get the ladies to wear them in their bats, and a hat trimmed with a rat's head became fashionable, the pest would soon be at an end; Let the hog 3 cleaiv up the wasto apples and "peaches under tbo trees, and there will be fewer wasto, frnils ..,, next year. There will also ho bettor hogs this year. - > Tho Honeymoon,—First quarter; "Pleaso brush my'bdty' Cariasima; your dimpled, darling fingers know the deftest way." Full moon; " Sadie, deai, I wisli you would brush off mv coat,. -You arc more expert witti the whisk than J. am." Last quarter: "Sarah, brush the mud off my trousers there, will you ? I got all splashed lust ni"ht." New moor: " Sas;, do be alittle quickor with tboso shots. I'm in a deuce of a hurry,"