NEWSY NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1125, 4 March 1910, Page 1

NEWSY NOTES.

An oyster is not fit to be i-jV.-q uiilij. four years old. Degeneration follows over-eating as much as it does too much drinking. I ■& I _As we paint the pictures of imagination we make permanent those of . memory. * No man is worth anything to his age who does not sometimes get anzi'y with it. * He who has piety only to save himself lias neither enough to help him ■ nor to hurt him. What is the Yellow Peril? The yellow peril is the orange peel on the pavement. What is a policeman? A p.-'icon:an us a never present help it; time of trouble. Of tho 670 members of the late Vμliament, over 130 were bar iVevs and advocates. What is wealth? Wealth ie not everything, but poverty is the v©jy dcvii. -)f Adversity often works prosperity, but that does not acquit the man who ' brings it on another. i -X- j The coin will never be worth much to any man until every man is worth more than tho coin. * ' ! Edith: The coreot factories have resumed operations. Lillie: Ah, that ! meant; tight times again! -X"illay I offer you my umbrella and | my escort home?" "Many thanks; I ; will take the umbrella. , '" Billheads, memo, forms, letter | heads printed at the Stab jobbing office. * A witty woman has coined the woni ■''lmuicheon" to describe one ,of ELor- j iico Fletcher's i'eaets. i '■'What is hauteur?" ''That's what some sale-ladies display when you r.ek to see something cheaper." In Hong Kong orders have been issued providing for the maintenance of one cat in every house, and three cats in the larger houses. It was stated at Kingston, at the inquest on Mrs Martha Goodthorpe, I aged seventy, that thirteen members • of her family had died suddenly. Two women medical students at Cracow, Austria, ended a violent j discussion by exchanging cards and i shoosing their seconds. ■X How about that little job for the )rinter? If you want good artistic etterpress and careful work, send -t ilong to the Star office. Nell: A girl shouldn't marry a. man ;ill she knows all about him. Belle.: jl-ood gracious! If she. knew all ibout him she wouldn't want to narry him. The '"izyoshtcliiks," the picturesque ;abmen of St. Petersburg, are organsing a league of protest against the nflux of taxi-cabs, which they fear ■vill drive them from the streets. •Sfr An item for ladies: When the lands are sore and blistered, wash ;hem in fresh buttermilk, and allow t dry on the skin, as it aids in vhitening it. Joseph Tott, of Patpots, Hungary, who had been ordered to stay in bed for a slight illness, was so alarmed when a friend who happened to be an undertaker called to see him that he :lied of fright. Lady (engaging servant): I ought :o tell you that we are all strict tee:otallers hero. 1 suppose you won't nind that? Mary Jane: Oh, no, mim. I've been in a reformed lrunkard's family before. ■X Affectionate Son: Roses are r ed, ' noiets are blue; send me ten quidlets uid I'll think of you. Loving Fa>her: Some roses are red, otheis are iink; enclosed find ten quidiets—l lon't think I At To business men : You want to bring pour printed forms up to date. Do aot send 1909 out-of-date memoe. to four clients* Get your work up to bhe moment. Up-to-date printing is 3one at the Stab office. The new German Budget has a no,el r feature—to wit, the provision for i breeding and training institute for jolice dogs, which is to be built at a iost of £1800, and kept up at an anlual outlay of £300, including the salaries of two policemen in charge. The Writtlo Nose Club has sent G5 Hβ 6d to the Chelmsford Hospital, jollected at the Cock and Bell Inn :rom those who take snuff. Customers ,vith large noses, on taking a pinch, ire charged one penny, whiile those ivith small noses only pay a halfpenny. •X '•You should have faith in Iranian nature," said the man of kindly instincts! "Yes," sneered the _ sourEaced official, "and lose my job as Customs inspector." Among the guests at an informal dinner in New York was a brigtit Philadelphia girl. "These are snails," said a gentleman next to her, whsn that dainty was served. "I suppose Philadelphia people don't eat them, for fear of cannibalism?" "Oh, no,' , was her instant reply; "it isn't thtt. We couldn't catch them." * ,Mr Churchill stated in a spe(«:h at Dundee last month that before Mr Herbert Gladstone gave orders for trie forcible feeding of the be tried the process on himself, and had j an egg and milk through his nostrils. So little inconvenience did ho f<-el, that he could talk perfectly well /.luring the whole time of the operation I<t is announced that tlie German Govermneiiit have decided not to purchase the Zeppelin 111. airship, wuiicih. made the great Toyage from Fried■richeraien. to Berlin in Seiptember last. The Government will, however, enter into negotiations witih Count Zeppelin for the airship yet to fc'e constructed. * The Griornale di Sicilia states that during the year ended December 28 no fewer than 543 earthquake shocks were registered by the ohjserv&torlee of Sicily, of whioh 139 occurred on ihe first day, and 192 in the month, of January. The smallest nutmiber was in the month of November, wihen only seven were registered.