NEWSY NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1288, 14 September 1910, Page 1

NEWSY NOTES.

Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.—Old provorb.

Speaking comes by nature, si I one* by understanding.—German proverb. Possession may he nine points oi the law. but solt'-possession is all of it. A man is never too old to learn, but ho may be too young to renlibe it. John Cobbo's Great Spring Show on Friday. * I Remember that it is only through yoin- -work that you can crow to your full height. * i Remember that work well done is ) the highest testimonial of character you can receive. Our poverty is more likely to be due to tile good Aye miss than the goods we lose. See the model qnadroplnnc at John Cobbe's Show. •J? The best way to meet some enemies is to slay them first unci argue with them afterwards. Don't place too much confidence in appealances. Many a man with ;t. red nose has a white heart. if. The. Magistrate: Who was present when the prisoner knocked you down? The Victim: I was. your Honour. He: Farewell. •my darling, I hope you will remain true, to m<'. She (through her tears): 1 hope so. t<xj. Mrs V.: My daugi'tor is a promising musician. Mrs C.: Well, get her to promise she- won't sing aiw more. ' I "What happens when a man's temperature goes clown as far as it can . go?' : "He has cold feet, ma'am,' 1 | •& i Good musical programme at John j Cobbe's Show. i B\-icle: Hern is a telegrani from | papa. Bridegroom (eagerly): What] •does he say? Bride (reads): Do not return and all will be forgiven. The best way to discipline one's \ heart against scandal is to believe all 1 stories to. be false which ought not to 1)0 true. "There's a young man who makes little things count.' , "How does he j do it?" "Teaches arithmetic fn the \ infants' school." *. ! New goods attractively displayed at John Cobbe'ts Show. '• It has been well said that experience is si hard school; but fools will learn in no other, and some will not; even learn in that. j -X - She: Do you have any trouble in \ trying to live up to your ideals? | He: Yes. 1 do; my ideal is n man ' who pays his bills. ' * ! A man charged with sleeping out at Ijowestoft was said by the police ! superintendent never to have been • known to do a clay's work in bis life. \ "W'.hen <loes a tanner change the colour of bis horses? —"When he opens the field gate and turns them in to graze (greys). j See the windows at John Cobbo's Show. j Mrs Newwed: My mother writes that she is coming hero to stay three months. Mr Newwed : Thank Heaven , for Fhat ! She knows how to cook. r * I Mara Shurdelitch, aged 18, and Lena Viktoriteh. aged U3, were con- ' i victed of waylaying travellers on the. road to f.eskobar. Servia. A cjuan- j tity of booty was found in the cave : which the liirls used. i "* . ! Young Gayley -. I say. Mr Pills, can ' you—raw —give me something to —aw.— : bwighten me up, doncher know 'i Mr Pills: You're in the wrong place, sir. This is a che;nist's shoj). not a nightschool. I Mrs Suburb: Art: you acijuainted with hej , personally? Proprietress of Servants' Registry Oflice -. in- ' deed. She is a good girl. I have known her for years. She comes in j hero almost every week for a place. I ' * I Dooi:s opeji at 7.30 at John Cobbe's Show on. Friday. i * . i The sum of £2936 was paid at Sotheby's at the end of July for four Gott folios of Shakespeare's works—n fall of £911) from the price given in 1908. Mr Quaritch bought the First Folio, of 162 a. for £1800. | * . i After having been in daily use in ■ the City since the year 1381, the mayoral .seal of the City of London Corporation is to be replaced by a new one. The old seal, which is of antiquarian value because it bears the earliest record of the City arms, will lie- preserved in the Guildhall. •3fr The returns of the .Fishery Board of Scotland give the combined catches of herrings at Orkney and Shetland and on the east coast of Scotland and that part of the Northumberland coast under the jurisdiction of the Board, from May to July 23. at 1,068,000 crans—lo6B million fish.