BRIEF ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3673, 29 July 1890, Page 2

BRIEF ITEMS.

"How long was Seddon's speech ?', " I don't know, I didn't have my gas meter with him."

| Tho little prayer beginning " Now I lay me down to sleep," was written by John Rogors, the martyr. Thereareaboufc 640 miles of electric railways in4he United States, Kitus leads with thirty-four miles. i*V The'various Socialist organisations of New York are reported as reprosenting a membership of 27,800 men. Tfc is said that of tho 5,000 clubs and societies in New York nearly 4,000 are' distinctly German. The tendency of a Gorman to form a society could not bo more forcibly illustrated than by those figures. Mrs O'Shannassy (wishing to mako up a recent quarrel)— Good mornin', Mrs Flynn. Is thero onything oi kin bring yes from th' market this morning ? Mrs Flynn-Phat do yez take mo for—a resavyor of sthflon goods'/ Among 65,000 lads who recently offered themselves as recruits for the army, says Lord Meath, -130 per 1000 were rejected for physical unfitness. Perspiration is naturo's devico for keeping the body cool. The curious thing is that when tho perspiration is greatest, the temper is very often tho warmest,' W*\ Frederick Shields and Anna Pa£ Bona, each of whom is seven feet tall, recently joined hearts and hands at the marriage, altar in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Count Taalle, the Austrian states, man, is an Irishman with a Welsh name, and his predecessor, Count Orennevillo, was doscendod from a Bishop of Loudon.

The total length of the streets, avonues, bridges, quays and thorough fares of Paris is set down at 600 miles.of which nearly 200 are planted with trees.'

The Church of England Bible Society has just celebrated its eighty sixth birthday, and issued a French version of the Now Testament, in which there are exactly 86 errors. A pretty Konßington girl rattles this off like lunch:—"Six silver sieves of sifted-thistlcs and a sieve of unsifted thistles, I am a sifted thistle site and an. unsifted thißtlo siflor with a sieve of sifted thistles and a sieve of unsifted thistles,"

It is not generally known that the oustoni of keeping birthdays thousand years old; it is recorded in the. fortieth chapter of Genesiß, twentieth verse:" And it came to pass the third day, which- was Pharaoh's birthday, that ho made a' feast unto all his servants,"

Grants tvero tnada last year from the British Royal Literary fund to the amount of £I,OOO to fourteen women. Chancellor von Caprivi is a bachelor. Amevioau heiresses will swarm in Berlin this summer.—N. Y, World. ' A woman character was first acted by a woman, aB far as the English stago is concerned, on November 9, 1658. Queen Christine of Spain is thirty, one years old, She is said to be the most popular Queen the nation ever had.