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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 182, 9 August 1901, Page 3

Some men would like wives to be like bank-notes, so that one of forty could be exchanged for two of twenty. —Brisbane Sportsman. It is hard to say which party is the most overbearing, the Law party or the Labor party. • Neither will “ inherit the earth,” though both claim it.—Adelaide Critic. As soon as a man get so ho can afford to keep a hired girl, his wife begins to go visiting and talk about all tha trouble she has with “ the servants.” —Sydney Truth. Soldioring should be with us quite a [ secondary pursuit; our best brains and strongest thews are needed for the paths of peace.—Hutt Chronicle. So far as liberty is concerned, the press of democratic New Zealand is considerably behind the press of Conservative England.—Wanganui Chronicle. The town artisan is being raised to a position of commanding such political power that country settlers are absolutely forced into union as a measure of self-protection, despite their personal inclination to work put their commercial salvation single-handed.—Gore Ensign.

| Ai; Marseilles, a boy fourteen years of age, who had been blind in one eye since his birth, and went there to embark for America, quarrelled with a porter, who dealt him two formidable blows on his left eye—the blind one. The eye was attended to, and when the bandage was removed a few days aftorwards, the boy found that ho oould see perfectly with both eyes. The bank officials, whose alleged wrongs have wrung tears of agony from deponents on many .platforms, comprise the latest section of the community which has risen up in revolt against the oppressor, being not the typical, grasping, exacting bank director, with one eye on tho ledger and the other on the clock, but the maker of Bills who has foisted the Shops and Offices measure into perspective two centuries before due date.— Thames Advertiser, The southerly buster at its height, With wind and rain and sleet, Is bound to give us every night Wet clothes and cold damp feet. Bad coughs and colds must then prevail, We’ll try to make them fewer, And take a dose of never fail— Some Woods’s Great Peppermint Cure.