BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3474, 1 April 1890, Page 3

BREVITIES.

j. All Saints Day! " Another destructive fire I Building wisoly allowed to burn. Fishing bcosou extended for a month. : David Cliristio Murray at Theatre Jfcyal to-night, starch 3 let, half-yearly balance of Bank of New Zealand, should bo April Ist. Borough' Council meeting. No rjnore river' pollution. Nature has removed the nuisanco, The children of tho stiikoi's in Liverpool are starving.' The mon Btoned the blacklegs. -■_■■■ : Society scandal in Berlin. Sensational discovery of high-class crime. The California Athletic Club has offered a pursd ot 20,000 dollars for h brains; match between Sullivan and Jackson, ■ News from Samoa- states that tho season is an wet ono. All tho shops in Apia were closed two days on account of tho roughness of weather in February. .•,-, A distinguished , literary man of W. Oakland stood up in a police court to answer to the usualchargo of vagrancy. "I object, your Honor," he" said,with dignity, "to this persecution of gentlemen who follow Iho professiou of letters, and-—" "I understand,' interrupted tho Judge," that you wero found sleeping under a doorstep; that you have no visible means of support; and that you have been seen under tho roftoonco of liquor," ""What.of it?" cried tho prisoner. "Though 1 am as! poor aB Hichard Savage, when he made his bed in tho \. ' ashes of a glass factory; as drunken as fDick Steele, who was full nine-tenths of his time; .as immoral as Byron, ns dirty as Sam Johnston, as " "There, there I"cried His Honor, impatiently; "I've no doubt your associates: are a disreputable lot, and I shall deal with jou in such a manner ns to cause them to give Oakland j wide berth. Sixty days witli hard labour. Mr Clerk, furnish i ' the constable with the names of tbe k vagabonds mentioned by the prisoner," . Never be so impolite as to call a man .a liar, Gently •insinuate that he talks like theadvanco agent of a theatrical star, ] " How largo a house are you going ( to build,- Mike?" asked a gentleman | of an Irishman who was about to i build a new house. " Oi've not i decided for sure, sir, but I think it'll ' be about twinty feet square by twinty-foive feet long, sor." ' j A Cooler,—Mowbray; I've some- ( thing very important to say to you, | after the girls leave the room. Jessie: Oh, talk it right out, do, I've I promised every ono of them to tell ' them just what you said when you J proposed, aud they might ns well get it first-hand, " Tipsymaninc" is the latest des- t of a habitual drunkard, 1 S§ Sir Henry James favors light i jßiunishmcnt for criminals. He says ' evil has jpever been flogged out of a ' man and certainly good will never bo t flogged into him. r A German legend says:—"First i ►• the Lord made man, then It made a woman, then he ielt sorry for the man and made tobacco,"