NEWSY NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1131, 11 March 1910, Page 1

NEWSY NOTES.

Not.hing succeeds like afldress. •5. Bee., Avhen flying, vibrate their AA-ings up to 440 time, a second. i -XT Economy is the art of making the most of life.—G. Bernard Shaw. x~ Beautiful display of uoav millinery in John. Cobbe's corner window. -XFlirtation is the host game for two that has ever been invented. ■HFirst Clubman : \oui* wile entertaining this summer P Second Clubman : Not very. No ivonuui. is any ago until people cease to care about her.—E. F. .Benson. .it. New- goods in every department at John Cobbe's. -XUnless .he .oon readies port, tho .stories about the AVaratah ivill'rival those about tho '-Flying Dutchman." -k The Ejnperor of Austria once refused £;50,000 for an opal iveighing 17ozs. Billheads, memo. forms, letter heads printed at the Stah jobbing office. 1 wish most _inc_roly (said tho Philosopher)* that i. Avere my grandchild's grandchild. %r Special value in tweed skirts at John Cobbe's. -XTwenty brace of English mallard ducks have boon liberated on Rangiri Lake, Auckland. Alfred Anderson, ten years old, w.lio lives in Marengo, iveighs 12-_ stone. When I go out to raise the wind, Cas.h heing very spare, 1 ahvays am chagrined to find A dead calm evcrvAvhere. .-XLondon stylos in coats and costumes at John Cobbe's. •XHe: AAo'd have Avon the football game if our captain hadn't lost his head. S.lie: .l.orey! Was it as bad as that? 1. heard it AA 7 as only an ear. ■xHoav about that little job for tho printer? If you want good artistic letterpress and careful Avork. send : t along to the Star office. ■XA certain doctor delivered a lecture on "Lunacy and Lunatics." Wonder what the paper meant when it added: ''there ivero many present ?" •?. Tho Avills of 14.1 persons connected with tho wine and spirit trade in t.ho United Kingdom ivere piwed during last rear. The aggregate net personalty amounted t0"£.',109.787. The man ivho thinks himself a martyr when he ivears a necktie, of his wife's selecting considers himself en- | tirelv competent to choose her clothes? New neckwear at John Cobbe's _\i■:.il Order House. She: How far can your ancestry be traced? He: Well, when my grandfather resigned his position as cashier of a county bank they traced him as far as China, but he got away. At an old soldiers' dinner at NorAvic.h tiie veterans numbered 450 anil displayed on their breasts no fewer than 693 medals, including six for the Crimea and eight for the Indian Mutiny. -XSome Howlers: , ''A vacuum is a largo empty space where the Pope lives." ".Martin Harvey invented the circulation of the blood." "A deacon is tho lowest kind of Chris- ( tian." ... -x- ! Mr Edward Brown, lion, secretary of the National .I'oultrv Organisation Society estimates that 4.443.912,245 eggs were oaten in tho United Kingdom during 1.908. Of these 2,1.25,2.2,----920 came, from abroad. * Sold at Christmas to a poultrykeeper some distance away, a young Orpington cockerel returned to its old home ("near London) on January 2 and killed the rooster hy whom it, hnd boon supplanted. •XVicar's Daughter: Why don't you lot your son join the choir? Rustic Party: Well, you see, miss, they wanted 'im to blow tho 'organ, and T don't think 'is lungs is strong enough. To business men.: Tou want to bring your printed forms irp to date. Do not send 1909 out-oMate memos, to your clients. Get your work up to the moment. Up-to-date printing is done at the Star office. -X"The errors of the world come from the pace at which people go, but T. strongly advise children never to quarrel ivith their parents if they can nnssibly avoid it."—A saying of Judge Willis at the Southwa'rl. County Court, •y----"Maud is certainly the prettier, but she's not nearly so clever as Hilda," said a young lady to a devoted ad- ' mirei". "Now, whicli of these two would you prefer in a wife—beauty or brains?" "Neither," ivas -the ' eager but thoughtless reply; "I'd nrc- " fer you." jf , Special purchase of f=l.irt<_ now showing at John Cobbe's. [ ■ , -55. , A night watchman at 'I'lafkonburg, Germany, summoned a workman for creating a disturhnnoe by singing at t two o'clock in tho morning. The magistrate discharged t.he man. since no one had complained except the , watchman, and lie had no right t. - consider himself disturbed since he 1 ivas not supposed to bo at rest. ascent (to cabby): How do you man--3 ago to keep yourself dry in this .wei " weather? Don't you wear a waterproof? Cabby: Na. na; sir: I just iak' a salt hcrrin' in the mornin 1 afore I come oot, and it- keeps me drj a' day. > * An epitaph in St. Peter's Church- _ yard. Isle of Thane., says:— Against ibis will Here lies George Hill, •, Who from a cliff Fell down quite stiff. When it happened is _ not known, Therefore not mentioned on thi stone.