NEWSY NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 745, 4 December 1908, Page 1

NEWSY NOTES.

Marriage is a short cut from romance to reality. You can flatter any man by telling him ho is flattery-proof. j When wise men get the worst of '■> it, they make the best of it. An expert is a man who is able to impress .us with how little we know. s Miss Ethel Mills, Typiste and Shorthand writer, Manchester Street. * Native oavaflry on the west coast of Madagascar ride oxen. Gloves were taxed in 1785, and 5 those who sold them had to hold a license. 1 Whit© Muslin Blouses, worked fronts, collars and cuffs, 4s 6d at » John Cobbe'e. Smoking is permitted in churches in some of the rural districts of Hol- . land. A person isn't 'necessarily smart > just because he says some things that do. ) Gent's Fashionable Tunic Shirt, popular colourfs, 4s 9d up, at John ' Cobbe's. The negro pall-bearers of Washington have decided to organise a trade . union. Nineteen young men employed in n large shop at Washington (have applied for a day's leave of absence in order to get married. An eastern editor, in acknowledtring the gift of a peck of onions, said: "It is such kindnesses as these that negativ^wnio^ToT^rneiriiOTtrait n disaster would overtake them shortly afterwards. Gent's White Canvas Cricketing Boots now open at John Cobbe's. A man may stop a foaming horso that's tearing down the street. May stop an enemy's advance ;imid the battle's heat ; In fact, stop almost anything in situations trying ; But not a single man can stop a baby crying. When Herr Durnford (Germany's Colonial Minister) was in German South Africa latefly, Mazanga, a powerful Sultan, produced a testimonial from a military surgeon under whom the dusky potentate had served. "Mazanga," wrote the officer, "has been a faithful and honest vaTet. He now leaves my service in order to ascend the throne of his father. 1 ?."