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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10770, 15 September 1906, Page 6

A HORSE AT CHURCH. Wliile the Rev. John T. Vine was preaching at Southcnd-on-Sea, a horse walked through tho vestry and into the aisle. It was driven out, and walked round tho back and came in again at the ■other vestry door. A LARGE FEE. Professor von Bergmann, the celebrated German surgeon, was recently summoned from Berlin to Constantinople to see the Sultan's third daughter, Princess Refia, who has been suffering from appendicitis. He has received a fee of 90,000 marks (£4500) for his services. •■ A SAVING DISPOSITION. "My wife has a saving disposition," said Hicks. "When we got our upright Grand piano »h« made a red plush cover for it, so that the rosewood wouldn't get scratched. Then she covered that with linen, so as to save the phvh. I tell you women have great minds." AN ACCOMMODATING CLERK. "Speaking of accommodating hotel clerks," remarked a traveller, "the best I ever saw was in a certain town. I reached the hotel late in the evening. Just before I retired I heard a scampering under the bed, and saw two large rats just escaping. I complained at the office. The clerk was as serene as a summer breeze. Til fix that all right, sir,' he said. 'Front! Take up a cat to room 23 at once !' " ' SEQUEL TO THE DREYFUS REPARATION . In 1898 several hundred Jewish families of the name of Dreyfus asked to be allowed to change 'it in order "not to bear the name of the traitor," and the Council of State replied favorably to their request. It is now demanded that the Government shall include in the measures of reparation to ilajor Dreyfus an order for all families formerly named Dreyfus to resume that name. IT LOOKED WELL. Old Donald Mackintosh was very ill, and the minister was with him. He listened with patience to the exhortations addressed to him, but at length put a question : "Will there be whiskey in Heaven?" "Certainly not," the startled' minister replied. "I am surprised that, you should ask such a question." "Weel, sir. it's no that I care for't mysel', bub : t looks weel on the table !" — St. James' Gazette. UNITED STWTFS NEWSPAPERS. The census ,'t;;ti.-!ics of newspapers in the United States are interesting. Last year, the average daily output on weekdays was 19,624,757 copies, and on Sundays 11,539,521 copies ; and the daily circulation had increased by 4,500,000 copies in five years. The total subscriptions for copies during Hie year amounted to £22,817,628, and for advertisements to £29,834,019, making together £52,651,647. The capital invested in newspaper enterprise was £78,724,387, showing a five year's increase of £18,758.381. INEQUALITIES OF LIFE. ''It doesn't seem altogether fair," observes the man with tlie introspective eyes. "What doesn't?" asks the man with tlie discouraged whiskers. "There's old man Meddergrass' son Lemuel. Wouldn't stay on the farm and become a tiller of the soil like his father. Ran away from home and studied art, then came back and painted some views of the old farm. And he got £300 for a picture of a ffeld that his lather would be glad to sell for £10 spot cash."