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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 802, 12 February 1909, Page 1

NEWBY NOTEB. The ground in the poultry yard should be frequently turn&d over. * There are 2361 miles of Government railways open for traffic. Railway revenue for last year in New Zealand, £2,761,938. The worst way to seek work is to look as though you want it. •* Visit the . Remnant Table during John Cobbe's Sale. All men have equal rights, but only a few get them. -jf It doesn't require nearly so much effort to run into debt as to crawl out. * Strange as it may seem it's the man who keeps his troubles to himself who loses them soonest. In Switzerland a telephone can be fitted to private houses for £1„ 10s a year. At the Strozzi Palace, in Rome, there is a book made of marble, the loaves being of marvellous thinness. * \ Big bargains is Boots during last week of John Cobbe's Sale. Any woman will tell you that there are positively men over 30 who make love like amateurs. * j If a woman is pleased with herself the opinion of the rest of the world is of secondary' importance. * Sub-editor: What about this poem that came in this morning, "Give Me Back My Own?" Editor: Oh! j do as the author bids. I Ten per cent, off Tailoring dur- \ ing last week of John Cobbe's Sale. * - I Imports into New Zealand last year were valued at something ap- ! proaching £18,000,000. Exports about £20,000,000. | *&" For shorthand and typewriting, | quickly done at reasonable charges, Miss Millls, Manchester street. ! * "Do you know the value of an oath?" a witness was asked. "A sovereign was what I got to come here!" was the reply. 1 * If men would only cling to their wives as tenaciously as they do to their old clothes, one of the greatest of domestic problems would be solved. Big Dress Bargains during last week of John Cobbe's Cash Sale. •XIn New York a woman who marries a man earning only 24s a week has no right to look to him for support, but must earn her own living. "Hurry -up, Tommy!" called mother from downstairs. "We're late now. Have you got your shoes on?" "Yes, maw — all but one." If you have one or 100 articles you'd like to turn into money — advertise in the Stab. A non-commissioned officer was courtniartialled at Breslau recently for abusing his authority by ordering two of his men to box each other's ears for his amusement. John Cobbe's Cash Sale closes Saturadv. the 20th. Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself has said. "My trade of late is getting bad — I'll try another 10-inch ad.?" * "I had not any food for my children, and I could not see them starve, so I went away," said a man who was j sent to hard labour at Greenwich for desertins his family. : * j A wild ass which was being shipI ped from the London Zoo to the Bronx Zoological Park, New York, ; kicked itself to death in its stall on I the liner Mesaba recently. I * A cook who died last month at Beaune (France) at the age of eighty-three had been in the service of the same family for sixty-seven , ' years. It is estimated that she served 73,365 meals during that time. * I Niece : Uncle, they say that there are more marriages of blondes than of brunettes. Why is it, I wonder ? Uncle Singleton (a confirmed bachelor): H'm! Naturally the lightheaded ones go, first. Great bargains in Millinery during last week of John Cobbe's sale. Customer : You don't seem to have a very large stock of hats! Shopman : But, madam, you have already tried on 240! Mr Thomas Williams, of lilangorse, Breconshire, who celebrated his hundredth birthday at "The end of last year, is still able to attend service three times on Sunday, and even teaches a class in the Sunday school. *' Why can a man never starve in the Great Desert? Because he can eat the 'sand-which-is' there. But what brought the sandwiches there? When Noah sent Ham, and his descendants mustered and bred ! During a marriage service at the parish church of Celle, Hanover, a young man suddenly fainted. When he regained consciousness he explained that he had fasted for two whole days in order to do justice to the wedding breakfast. * A young woman obtained a divorce in Paris at the end of December on the ground that she had (Only just discovered that her husband's political views were diametrically opposed to her own. The husband, on the other hand, declares that he prefers his opinions to his wife. Advertisers note this: At the meeting this week of the Cheltenham Dairy Co. two letters were read from Wellington merchants offering t< supply an article which they had seer mentioned in the Feilding Stab ai being required by members of th< company. "That shows how youi - paper circulates." writes one of tb directors of the Company. Kilties' Band, Feilding Racecourse Monday afternoon, February 15, 2.» S.m. Admission, adults, 1*".,,*-™ 1 ren. 8d; grandstand, la. Music TfigftWd pftsobg, sto.