Quit at Ten o'Clock.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 327, 22 December 1888, Page 5

Quit at Ten o'Clock.

The Vienese spend much time ab cafes and beer gardens, and consequently they do not return to their homes until rather late in the evening. Everyone who is out after 10 o'clock p.m. in Vienna is fined four cents, and by an old law the porters of the houses are authorised to collect and keep this fine, which must amount to a good sum in such a ciby of pleasure. The young men in Vionna have never been able to get this law repealed, for the majority of the Legislature are men of property, who, on account of this fine, can get porters to take care of their apartment houses for nothing. There are no latch keys to the out°ide doors, so every person wyo returns after 10 o'clock at night must get the porter to open the doors and pay him four cents. It is an amusing sight to see the porters all standing at their doors, keys in hand, towards 10 o'clock, waiting for the clocks to announce the hour for closing, so that they may mias no fees from late returners. When young men are making calls they become uneasy i toward 10 o'clock, and they can be seen to revolve in their minds the problem whether i to stay longer and spend eight cents each in fees — for they have to pay to get out of the house where they are as well as to get • in their own — or leave atonce and have two glasses of beer each ab the expense of I porters. Austrian girls have to make a > great many attractions to make the young • men give up their beer for them, for what i do Austrian men like better than their beer i — nothing, bub themselves. 5 .

" How dobh the little busy bee?" Well, if you meddle with him much you* will be apt to find out how he doth. The wheat crops in Maryborough, are reported to be looking nmgnificent^and the yield is expected to be a very large 'line'. 1 ( The smallest book in the world is* in the possession of the Earl of Dufferiri.' ' ft is' an edition of tHe sacred book' of £h¥Sikhs^and is said to.be only half^tne size 'oFa\pcfstage sfcainp. "* , ''" "^l -When a man in a bar-room .talks loud and 1 ,says be is a gentleman, no other testimony is needed.

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By village homes, in Northern wilds remote, By busy cities, where cathedrals rise, By miner's hut and shepherd's lonely cot. Where plains extend, or snow-peak& pierce the skiesRing out, sweet chiming bells, ring once again The message -"Peace on earth, goodwill to men !"

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O'er shining river, and o'ev wind-vexed strait. O'er kauri forests and o'er orchards fair. O'er haven ed ships, with bales of costly freight. O'er flocks and herds, and harvests rich and rare — Ring out, aweet chiming bells, ring 1 once again The message— " Peace on earth, goodwill to « men!"

Chime on, glad bells, o'er all this happy land, Where Maoris and their conquerors dwell in peace, Bid love and pleasure journey hand-in-hand, Bid commerce thrive, and strife for ever ceaseRing out, sweet chiming bells, in joy and glee, New Zealand's Christmas anthem, bold and free!

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