Striking Diversity and Strange Unanimity.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3229, 20 September 1892, Page 4

Striking Diversity and Strange Unanimity.

. ♦ rr- , ■ ' . THE WQEKI^GMAJf'S MILLENNIUM. It is said that " !V&riety is fhe spice of life," and tnat "it adds to its flavour." The po9t (Ipsac "Watts, or Cowper, we .. rJtprget. "which) -was nob very far wrong when ho penned this couplet, for certainly if o .would be bat a dull monotonous thing -wet& ituot for it's pleaßin^ cbntrasts. In the animal world we have the graceful and shy deer, and the Jbpld and ferocious lion, the huge elephant, and diminutive though destructive mouse; there is the plain, humble-looking thrush, with its rich sod^, and the beautiful (humming bird whose musical talentp, (and he has sense enough to know it) areconßpiououßly absent; tren there, is 'ihe';'moltetw'TVhale and the tiny Bhrlmp'On wirtcK'it feeds. Whilst in mankind 1 the ,<jomttaßts . ase still more marked and numerous, for not only are j . their ''.physical features," Bp to; speak, j different, but they differ intellectually and morally also. In some countries certain acts are considered dishonourable and even criminal, and in otherß the same aots ,t7ould be looked upon ns, ligibimate and. onourable ■ ' In China and India, for instance, we believe, lying ia a virtue — we won't say a rare virtue ; while among the Negroes of America chicken-stealing is considered • one of the favourite tos^nol pastimes, and perfectly praiseworthy; too — provided, j they *• don't get caught' in lihe act." • In this cpuntry our- taßtes differ, and our ambitions carry us higher. .. We. .don't believe there is a siugl&bnnk-tell'er in the ] whole of the country mean enough to If y violent hands oha;pqoi unprotected fcwl. As to varying, opinions on political .matters, they' are Jegib'n, everyb,o^y.hHS aii •opinion of some^r'tj- some thiirk that Ballance and his party are the willing, instruments of the evil one j others think • them the only men capable of ushering in fhat era of unexampled prosperity, termed , by some enthusiasts the 1 Working "Men's - Millennium; others, again, are. loud ia their praises of the author of the- Public; Works Policy, whilst others clamour) f or; Sir Harry Atkinson ; but one and all areunanimous in pronouncing Buchanan's House of Commons Whisky " the Purest and Best in the Market." ONE BOX OP CLARKE'S li 41 PILLS . is warranted to cure all discharges from. , -the Urinary Organ b, in either sex, (ac"quired or constitutional). Gravel, and > Pains in the back. Guaranteed free from Mercury. Sold in boxes, 4s 6d. each, by all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors; • Sole Proprietors. Thk Lincoln and Mid-

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