Striking Diversity and Strange Unanimity.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 3199, 15 August 1892, Page 4

Striking Diversity and Strange Unanimity.

liyea of other women (and men also), who will reactmth new fiope the outcome of Mrs. Caddy's case, and place a confidence which no cavilling can shake, in the remedy which reatored to her the health and happiness that Providence deaignß for ub all.

THE WOEK3UG MAN'S MILLENNIUM. It is said tbit " "Variety is the spice of life," and that "Itf'adds to its flavour." The poet (Issac Watts, or Cowper, we forget which) was not very far wrong when he penned this couplet, for certainly if c would be but a dull monotonous thing

were it not for its pleasingr contrasts. In the animal world we have the graceful and shy deer, and the bold and ferocious lion, the huge elephant, and diminutive though destructive mouse; there is the plain, humble-looking thrußh, with its rich song, and the beautiful humming bird whose musical talents (and he has sense enough | to know it) are conspicuously absent ; tiben there is the monster whale and the tiny shrimp on which it feeds. Whilst in mankind the contrasts are still more marked and numerous, for not only are their 'physical features," so to speak, different, but they differ inteuectually.and morally also. ' In some countries certain acts are considered dishonourable and even criminal, and in others the same acts would be looked upon as ligitimate and ononrable In China and India, for instance, we ' believe, lying is a virtue — we won't Bay a rare virtue { while among the JVegroes of America chicken-stealing is considered one of the favourite nocturnal pastimes, and perfectly praiseworthy, too — provided they " don't get caught in the act." in this country our taßtes differ, and our ambitions carry as higher. We don't believe there is a single bank-teller in the whole of the country mean enough to Icy violent hands on a poor unprotected fowl. As to varying opinions on political matters, they are legion, everybody has an opinion of some sort; Borne think that Ballonce and , his party are the willing instruments of the evil one ; others think them the only men cacable of ushering in that era of unexampled prosperity termed by some enthusiasts the Working Men's Millennium; others, again, are loud in their praises of the author of the Public Wotka Policy, ■whilst others clamour fox Sir Harry Atkinson ; but one and all are unanimous in pronouncing Buchanan's House of Commons Whisky " the Purest and Best in the Market."