NEWSY NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1133, 14 March 1910, Page 1

NEWSY NOTES.

. -oKeep a cheerful face to the world. ! What is dyspepsia? It is a good foundation for a bad temper. Never talk much about your own troubles. What is a bachelor? A standing .temptation to women. No wind is of service to him who is bound i'or nowhere. Advertise and the world laughs with you; don't and you weep alone. * Choice new millinery, now showing at John Cobbe's. What is a crank ? A crank is a little thing that makes revolutions. The difficulty of representing religion would bo halved if its misrepresenting friends would all die. The Comet will soon be quite near the earth—it is now only twelve million miles distant! ■Billheads, memo. forms, letter heads printed at the Stab jobbing j oilice. Splojidid value in ladies' Coats at John Gobbe's. •«• The world was not created merely to yive women an opportunity to wear Paris frocks.—W. S. Mauglian. Tahutimai is the name selected for ' the telephone office at the Dawson's l< alls mountain house, Taranaki. c • * intense was the cold at Buckie (England) on January 26 that milk was sold by the lump. To love a good woman is a liberal education. To love a lady of fashion is a coiniuerciai education. The .girl past the sentimental age finds it so much easier to fall in love with a fat bank account than with a lean one. New chapes in ladies' Costumes showing at John Cobbe's. -Mr Stranger: Did you over reveal your lishing hole to a friend? Angler: Once I did, to a friend on his dea.th- | bed. A member of the Yarmouth miniature rifle club who is a keen temperance worker was awarded two prizes at the annual distribution. Each was a bottle of whisky! How about that little job for the printer? If you want good artistic letterpress and careful work, send : t along to the Stab office. Mr Alfred Thurlow was buried it \ Manchester (Warwickshire) churchyard on January 22. He had been for sixty-seven years a member of the 1/oyal Nelson Lodge of Oddfellows. Fair Amateur: The curtain will rise in a few minutes. Are you quite sure you know your words? Hero: Yes, ■all except the part where I kiss you. AVe'd better rehearse that aerniii. Mr Henpeck: We're going, to remove to the seaside, doctor. Doctor: But the climate may disagree with your wife, Mr Henpeck. Mr H, -. It wouldn't dare! Ladies' tweed Golf Hats, iv variety at John Cobbe's. The Conversationalist (to w<jll--known authoress): I am co delighted to meet you. It was only the other day—l saw something of yours—about 1 something or other—in. some paper ! * There are two distinct angles from which we all look at_ life—the one while we are doing things we ought not and the other when we get caught. "Wlhat do you think of a man with a rip in his coat and only three ibuttons on his vest?" "Why, lie should either get married or divorced ! ,J At Ulverston, in Lancashire, is an epitat>h which reads: — Here lies my wife, Here lies she. Hallelujah 1 Hallahrjee! at. The cross-eyed man was watching the activity of Niagara, "What a big waste," lie remarked to his friend. The very stout lady standing near by looked at him angrily. "Mind your own business," she said. * See the latest Neckwear for ladies at John Cobbe's. ■*• To business men: You, want to bring your printed forms up to date. Do not send 1909 out-of-date memes. to your clients. Get your work up to the moment. Up-to-date printing is done at the Star office. "You can't spelr words like parallelogram an , —an , —hippopotamus, 1 ' j sneered the small boy in the i'aiuntelroy suit and curls. "Dats where I'm lucky," observed the infantile leader of the mangy bull pup. "I ain't got to!" More Howlers.—Tf the air contains more than 100 per cent, of carbolic acid it is very injurious to health. Gravitation is that which if there were none we, should all fly away. The press to-day is the mouth organ of the people. Lemuel Gardner, of Washington, New Jersey, is the owner of a tree which records temperatures with unfailing accuracy. Four years ago the tree was split by lightning, and the crack opens anS closes in accordance with the varying degrees of heat and cold. * "Now, look here," said Gertie Golightly, To the basso who sang with her nightly, " If we're to prolong The last note of our son" You've just got to hold me less tightly." ■HChoice new Suitings in variety at John Cobbe's. 3f When Noah Doughty was charged with theft (Eng.) last month, ihis 'brother said that he* was a bright young man when he was eighteen—five years ago—and then exoessive cigarette smoking seemed to affect [his brain. He emoked as many as sixteen packets a day. John Williams, the oldest postboy, who was ninety-six on Christmas Day, was buried' at Dartford, England, on January 26. He was postillion to Queen Victoria on several occasions, and acted in that capacity to Queen Alexandra on her journey from Gtavesend to London for her marriage. * Pedlar's Aore, Lambeth, has been sold by the Lambeth Borough Council to the London. County Council for .681,342, and will form nart of the site of tho new County Hall. The land has been in the possession of the paro- • chial authorities since , 1504," when it was let by' the rector and ohurch- [ wardens of St. Mary's, Lambeth, at a rental »f fb 8d a ye*r.