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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 5085, 22 September 1891, Page 3

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The farmers of Molong, in New South Wales, have memorialised the Legislature to do something to deliver them from the ravages of the hares. When Herschel studied astronomy only four double stars were known. But now nearly 7000 of them are distinguishable. The principal relic belonging to the church of Sainte Gudule, in Brussels, consists of a thorn which is said to have formed a part of the Saviour's crown. It was brought to the Netherlands in the time of the crusades. Teacher: "You must not- come to school any more, Tommy, until your mother has recovered from the smallpox." Tommy: "There ain't a bit of danger ; she ain't going to give me the small-pox." "Why, how is that?" '' She's my .stepmother. She never gives me anything." " My friends," remarked the minister, " the collection to-day will be devoted to my travelling expenses, for I am going away for my health—the mole I receive the longer I can stay"—and, strange to say, the largest collection ever made was taken up. "Do you never wash these bathing towels, Mrs Swillum?'' Mrs Swillum (the bathing woman) —" Sure miss, an' they don't want it at all, at all—aren't the paple clane afther bein' in the water!" The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew it would never be found out.