NEWSY NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 532, 27 March 1908, Page 4

NEWSY NOTES.

*•» FACTS AND FANCIES FOR STAR READERS. Agnes: Doefl ho talk sensibly? Ethel : Not at all 1 He is simply delightful. Never doubt a girl's veracity when she says sho can't sing. It's ten to ono sho can't. "Mamma, Av-hy do so many ladies cry at a wedding?" "Because most of them aro married themselves!" De Green's full military band rf fifty performers, a successful Sydney organisation, visits New Zealand in August fm* a three months' tour. The Fulham Borough Council proposes to grant a pension of 7s a week to an old road sweeper, who has given thirty years' work to tho borough. ••Gladys Wedded Count at Noon" was the' headline on the story of the wedding of Miss Gladys Vaiuk-rbilt and Count Szechenyi in the Henderson (Kentucky) Journal. To tho business man: When you have urgent work, needing accuracy, and neatness, send for Miss Mills, Shorthand Writer and Typiste. Apply Stah Office. When ifc is equal to the best, tben the local paper should be well supported. Advertise in tlie Star and sen-.l your printing to the Star. Good lvork and publicity result. John Kelachy Ormrod, of Pennsylvania, sued Annio PeJat, nineteen | years old, for £'1000 for breach of promise. Ho said lie had been courting her for fifteen years. His suit was dismissed. It was announced at Swindon on Feb. 10 that the Great Western Railway works there, employing more than 15,000 hands, will be closed en February 22, tho day of the Swindon Cup tie at Wolverhampton. An electric tramcar belonging to' the St. Helens Tramways Company loft tho rails near Rain'hill on Feb. 10 and crashed into a confectioaier's shop, wrecking the front of the shop. No ono was injured. "Tho early bird catches tho worm," j said tho aphorist. "Yes," answered ! tho iconoclast. "But look at tho owl. He stays up all night, gets a reputation for wisdom aud never gets eliot at." Fond Mamma : Well, professor, 'how is my daughter getting on with her vocal lessons?" Professor: "Why, don't you notico her improvement ?" Fond Mamma: "Well, we weren't sure whether sho was improving, or wo were getting moro used to it." Drummer Michael Regan, of tho staff of the f-t'h Battalion Connaught Rangers Militia, was discharged last month at Boyle under the provision's of the new Army Order, after completing a service of forty-one years aaid 106 days. During that period there waa never the slightest record against him. A woman suffrage lecturer recently brought down tho house with the following argument: "I have no vote, but my groom has. I have a great respect for that man in the stables, but 1 am sure if I were to go to him and say, 'John, will you exercise the franchise r' ho would reply: 'Please, mum, which horse be that?' ". "Little hoy," said a gentJeman. "Why do you carry that umbrella over your head? Jt is uot raining." "No." "And the sun is not sliming. " "No." "Then why do yon carry it?" "Beoauso when it's raining father wants it, and when tho sun shines mother wants it, and this is the only kind of weather that 1 can get to uso it at ail." The Rev. Henry McAlvray, an evangelist, who is conducting, a religious campaign in Little Falls, New York, announces that a circle will meet each Wednesday afternoon, at which all persons, who have stories to tell about their neighbours and cannot refrain from uttering them, may have the opportunity to vent their ill-will under circumstances where they will do no harm. m—ammmmmmm—m—mm—m