THOUGHTS ON THINGS IN GENERAL.
IsEicby tho Lineudrapers' Almanac so widely mi dilated that Ash Wednesday comes on a Fnday this year. Being at tho antipodes makes strange changes. — You editors almost f lightened us poor simple bush folks out of our "propriety" by your Russian panic ai tide. Wo begau to feel ouraelves to be 801 fs all at ouce, and think wo should have to live on black bread dipped m lamp oil. — I think one of the best species of liberality our Piovincial Government have been guilty of was subsidising countiy libraries, for it does real good to tue coruinuuity,aud without o-itoiitatiou or any object for cavil. It is •.omethuijj for <i Govornmcut to c-.ny out any woik which 1-1 not cavilled at. Many of our countiy libiancs will now bo really good ones, paiticulaily whole they havo a committee With one gy to add to it by soliciting donations of books from their friends, as by tins means a mass of books lying useless by on shelves may bo made available to a laigo nuinbor of readeia. — Some of rny friends think I am too haid upon our (Super, at times, and I don't wish to hit a m.iu whon ho is down. A Man in ihk 15u.su.
A gent ■u.is asked what kind of a "gal'' lie prcfciicd tor his wiiu. "One," sa.nl lie, ' tlwit wasn't prodi-gal, but fru-gal— a tiuegal, and suited to his conju-gal taste " A good, convenient, and veiy effectual lemedy for the stint's of wasps, bees, &c , is simply to hold any hollow key ovoi tlio place slung, piessith.udinto the flesh foi a minute 01 so, and when taken oil the poison Avill I>e on Hie suif.ice of the flesh and do no liann. A tliiinblc with a tight tup will do, but not quite so well,
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIX, Issue 4834, 22 February 1873, Page 3
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THOUGHTS ON THINGS IN GENERAL.
Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIX, Issue 4834, 22 February 1873, Page 3
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