All Sorts

New Zealand Tablet, 1 October 1908, Page 38

All Sorts

No man is nobler born than another unless he is born with better abilities and more amiable disposition. Moods and - whims are the ugly weeds you must guard against if you jyant to keep the garden of your 1 heart fair and lovely. Pennies do not- consist of copper alone, there being in them 2 per cent, of tin and 3 per cent, of zinc to 95 per cent, of copper. They cost the Government about is gd a pound, exclusive of stamping, and there are 48 in a pound weight. What passes in the world for talent, or dexterity, or enterprise, is often only a want of morarprinciple. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greater share of invention, but from not being nice in the choice of expedients. Canterbury farmer : ' Don't you see that sign,-" Private 5 No Fishing Allowed"?' Unsuccessful angler:"' I never read anything marked " Private," and, furthermore, I'm not fishing aloud, but quietly.' ' I've got a washing machine here,' began- the shabby canvasser at the back door of a suburban residence. Sharp-tempered housewife, who has been called away from attending to the dinner : * Well, if I were you I'd run straight home and use it.' ' I say, old man,' whispered the young fellow who found that the conversation of his new acquaintance was highly agreeable, ' let's come and smoke a cigar in the garden. That woman's yelling gets on my nerves.' ' Thanks,' was the quiet reply ; ' you have my sympathy ; but as it is my wife who is singing, perhaps it would hardly do.' Two ladies who had not seen each other for years recently met in the street. They recognised each other after a time, and their recognition was cordial. 'So delighted to see you again. Why, you are scarcely- altered.' 'So glad; and how little changed you are. Why, how long is it since we met?' 1 About ten years.' ' And why have you never been to see me?' 4 My dear, just look at the weather we have had.' Like a good many other modern industries, that of paper making had its origin with the Chinese. The ..papyrus of the Greeks and Romans was not paper at all, but simply the piths of the stem of a plant cut into strips, placed side by side and across each other and pressed into a sheet, to which the natural gum of the plant gave a homogeneous character. But the Chinese in very early times made as genuine paper, in its general characteristics, as that produced by the perfected .methods and machinery of to-day. The old name for the City of London was Lymen or Ltynden, meaning ' the city by the lake.' An old tradition gives us to understand that London was founded by Brute, a descendant of Aeneas, and then" it" was first called New Troy or Troynovant. In the time, of Lud it was surrounded by a wall and was then known as Lud's Town, or Caer-Lud. This latter is probably the correct version of the origin of the name of London if for no other reason because it is such an easy matter to detect a similarity between the expression London and Lud's Town. It is claimed by some writers that there xras a city on the present site 'of London in the year 1 107 8.C., and it is known that the Romans founded a city there and called it Londinium in the year 61 A.D. * ' - The total length of the. journey byVrail from Moscow to . Vladivostok is 5551 miles ; the journey takes ri days xi hours, or an average rate of speed of.-ioj-. miles an hour; • The cost of a ticket, first cldss, by the express tram from Moscow ia £31 2s; this does notjnclude the cost of food, which is about £7 10s, or -a total cost of 12s. The price of a second class ticket is 3s id, exclusive of food en route. If the cost of going to St. '^Petersburg or Moscow to take the Siberian : express, the excess luggage charges, the stay at VladiWock, the .crossing thence to Japan or -to Shanghai, . are all taken" into account with the cost of the ticket and the living on the train, it will be fgund . that _ the cost of going out to the Far East across Siberia is nearly as much as that incurred by gointf out • thither by sea. . ,\"\ -

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