NEWSY NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1675, 20 December 1911, Page 1

NEWSY NOTES.

. A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any. state of the market.' Tl *" rsy using a microphone, you can hear ;i fly walk. Place your orders lor Christmas Oards with the Stab. ■3£ Only ono person in 13,000 reaches the ago oi 100 years. . The intrinsic value of one penny is less than a farthin»* , , * A ton oi soot results from the burning of 100 tons of coal Icebergs in tho Atlantic sometimes ! last tor two hundred years j '* The horse succumbs to cold more quickly than any other animal **£■ .Constantinople at present has ten picture palaces. r,„ * lucre are seventeen ladies who are peeresses in their own right i* * ' It costs more to revenge, injuries] than to bear them. j . No wind is of service to him who I is bound for nowhere. . j Man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops. -&- New Year cards P The Stab has them. Bee samples. -?r H"e confers a double kindness on a poor man if ho gives quickly. j The first trial for broach of pro-* mise was field in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. To a sick man tho world begins at ins pillow and cuds at tho foot of his bed. Wo are sometimes above actions, sometimes below them: rarely on a level with them. When women whisper scandal and say a little bird told them, it's a safe bet it was a lyre bird.

bhc: Oh, pro lessor! I saw such a funny old fossil in the museum to-day. I thought of you at once. * Nearly eight million pounds were voluntarily given to the Church of England last year. Prisoners in the Montgomery City Gaol, Chicago, are now permitted to go out and fish all day. liy means of a sparrow club 2721 birds were killed m a district iv -Uid-Dorset and 4881 eggs taken. lhcro are noiv acres under fruit cultivation in Ireland —a large increase on previous totals. V r, , * lying George s Coronation is commemorated in a Hampshire village by the provision of a public grindstone. ■Jf The dove returned to the ark. '*We shall have peace," it cried; "there is no land to fight about and nobody to fight." Marks: So your Italian barber refused to shave you:-' Why was 'that:- 1 ?arks: I told him I'd "just had v Turkish bath! ''Does you husband ever lose his temper-"' '-Not any more. Ho lost it permanently about two years after our marriage." ■XHowell: Edison says that \vu sieeo too much. Powell: Well, it isn't his fault; he has invented enough things to keep us awake. _ "Ma's just crazy to servo on il jury." "That so*"' "Yes; she says she wants to be one of tho first to tell tho secrets of the jury room." * Ato you thinking of your Christmas and New Year cards? The season will soon be here. The Stab has just the card to suit you.. See samples. * loungly: Did you ever notice that the matrimonial process is like making a, call? You go to adore, you ring the belle, and you give your name to the maid. Cyuicus: Yes, and then you're taken in. -X"Notis.—Pisen lado car for dorgs and Soshcelists. —Owner." The foregoing notice was attached to an amiSocialistic letter which reached the Horowhenua Chronicle office the. other day.