THE MERCER RAILWAY STATION REFRESHMENT ROOMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1312, 25 November 1880, Page 2

THE MERCER RAILWAY STATION REFRESHMENT ROOMS.

TO THK EDITOR. Sir,— May I through your columns suggest to the proprietor of the Railway Station Refreshment Rooms at Mercer, the advisability of placing renlhj cold or rctrlli/ hit joints on the hide-board ; at present, the meat is neither coM nor hot. During the summer monthi at any rate, ami I think throughout the year, cold joint? would be very much preferred by travellers genei.illy. Whilst making this suggestion, 1 may be allowed to remark on the excellency of the new potatoes just now at Merer, the best certainly that I have eaten this year.— l am, etc., Trvveller.

Pikrcb Euran, the novelist, and son of the wc4l-k.no \vn sporting ■writer, is dead. AwtfLL-dressed youusf man entered a Madrid shop a few d.iys n^o, and, after walking uneasily about for a time, asked : "Have you any watches with Indiarubber cases? 1 ' The astonished shopkeeper answered iv the negative. The youth *huuibled un and down the floor a, few time* and again said : ' ' You haven't any i\iUl< > -b<>xr-« with diamond handles, I suppose?" "N-i, sir," said the f. k. "How young- does a child bog-in to use a velocipede?" asked the youth. "It depends a great deal on the kid," w.is the answer ; " some begin young, some don't." " Would you sell me a two- wheeled one and change it for a three-wheeled one if it's a jriil?" "Couldn't do it," came the curt response. The youth went out, and the shop keeper reposes in the lowest dangeon of the Castle. It was the King of Spain. — X Y. Eroi'uir/ Mail. Mr Edward Comptou has written some interesting reminiscences of the late Miss Neilson. The following will be l'cad with interest: "Two coincidences I would wish to mention in connection with her death, and then I am done with reminj iscences. When leaving California, she : said to me on the Wednesday before we I started: "How wonderful our life is, and how we seem to be watched over and guarded while we travel over thousands and thousands of miles, and are safe unhurt and well when our destination is reached. For instance, to-day lam in California, next Wednesday I shall be sleeping on the train, the third Wednesday I shall be in New York, the fourth on the broad Atlantic, and the fifth enjoying myself in Paris !' " All came true but the fifth. She was in Paris certainly, but under what circumstances ; The other coincidence is that, frequently as she gave her autograph during her last tour, she seldom wrote any quotations save two ; and, in their deep and solemn meaning, they seem to have gone forth mournfully, and almost prophetically, from her heart. They were— ' Farewell ! God knows when we shall meet again. (Poor Juliet's words), and the well-known line from the French, Tout latsc, tout casse, tout pane V "—Court Journal. "Ark you there, my love?" he whispered through a hole in the fence of his beloved's garden. "Yes, darling," was the reply; "jump over." He did so, and alighted in the presence of an enraged mother, a broomstick and a guardian of the night. — Evert/ Saturday, Despite all the evil qualities of the fly, he is as devoted as a Puritan. You will find him at church three times a day if you chance to go, and he never slumbers, like many of the wicked congregation. Marathon Independent