NEWSY NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 765, 30 December 1908, Page 1

NEWSY NOTES.

AYe learn to do by doing — also by being done. You can't play truant from the ischool of experience. It is almost as easy to give advice as it is to reject it. The meanest people give themselves away occasionally. Fortune sometimes overtakes a man who is not a fugitive. ii a mau uoesn'o trnnk he's clever, it's because he a good looking. An aged beggar living ac Dunkirk inherited £.1.0,01)0 trom a weaicuy uncle last month. if you have one or lUO articles you'd like to turn into movey — advertise in the bTAit. •'Death from tue medical evidence,-' was llie verdict returned by a ooutliwark coroner s jury on i\oyember 'A. ISo growth ol cities, no growth of weal un, can make up lor a loss m citner tue uuuiuer or tue charatcor oi tne i arming population. Alderman Jolin Banks on November 2 completed titty years ol continuous service on tuo J* olKestone (Jouncil. lie lias beau luayor six times since 161 8. YYhoji asked how uiauy brothers and sisters lie Had, a bankrupt ac | larmoutii replied, 'Une sister auu one brother by my lirst latiier." J Distress is very great among tuo poorer classes iv .Mauritius, and a aerious ueiicit on tuo working ol tlio prcsuin unauciai year is unavoidable. •*._. ulack-edged oinolope.- - Uch I j. lien* s sonic-body dcuu, thiu ! iiegurriiu, its me dear biocner Dennis 1 bure, i'd . know )__-,, harnl- * nun among a thousand 1" uuuur a iiuvei scheme uniuh was , approved last, moutii by tno lirignLon distress wmunucc, unemployed labourers will be supplied to residents ior gardening work. *'i am not goinj£ to say that an English boy wuo is calied a foreigner uy another m not justilied in hitting tne other boy in the eyo," declared \ the West Ham magistrate. *i am willing to do anything, said tlie applicant lor work. "All Hj^iit, amd am uaid-huarted mer_ cuaut. ••l-'lcuse closw tho door beI uiuu you waau you go out.' "i. uud Lo put things on to como ncic, said a woman uhose lashiouuuio vat was conuueuteu on by tuo Uioomsoury Oounty VJourt judge. "1 •juouiu unukso, muucdl" observed the judge. At the ei-jciiuu 0.l a guardian ior tue parish oi i»roiigiitou, xxuiitiiigdoiisiiire, twenty votes each were secured by tn« vicar auu a iarnier. xney decided lo toss ior Lne post, an-a the vicar won. All the 6UUO ineii ret_Uiied ior liio extra -_Ui istmas work oi the .London foal Oilice were selected by the -itu iNovoiuuer, anu some tnousands or applicants waro lmormed with regret tnat they womu not be required. Until further notico \»e wiil accept stovowood in exenange lor back suoscnptious. uuiu on witu your wood. It would be a good thing lor you and it wouid be a good ttnug lor us to take advantage ox this wood Oiler. — JJiugviUe .bugle (b.ti.A.) At a council meeting oi the Royal Agricultural society uimgianu,* on .■.November -A, it was decided to hold the iy_U show in. Liverpool. it was reported that* tue net proht resulting irom the recent exhibition at .■.Newcastle wouid amount to about i.iU,UUO. AM Paris thronged the cemeteries oi ihe city on .November 2 on the occasion oi Ali tiouis'-day. lhe animals' cemetery at Asmeres, where *^U,ULIO pets oi all kinds are buried, was visited by several thousand persons, and the graves and tombstones were decorated with liowers. Philip Jacobs was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude at Leicester ou November 4 ior receiving goods stolen by bpenccr, the ex-bun-day school teacher, and other burglars. Counsel described bpencer as '-jbaptist, butterman, and burglar, Christian cracksman, and convict." it is the man that keeps hammering away that makes an impression and reaches results. Spasmodic advertising does not impress people that you havo a good thing aud know it. A space in a paper hiled day after day is, in the experience of successful advertisers aud business men, the best of ail known means ior reaching prospective buyers. A (jiermau was driving au English friend from Frankfort to Hamburg when a motor-car passed at a terrific pace, raising a cloud of dust. •Ah!" said the (German, "there goes our Emperor." "How do' you knowr"' inquired the Englishman. "Do you suppose any body else could raise a dust like thatr 1 " was the reply.