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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11778, 28 September 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)

Mrs Chnrch: Did you say your busband liked tho9e clinging gowns. Mrs Gotham : Yes, he likes one to cling to me for abont four years. •How did you ome to be a professional beggar ? Tramp — • I ain't no professional beggar. I'm employed to git up statistics on how many heartless people there is in this city. A most extewjive wardrobe ia possessed by the wife of Li Hung Chang. Among her other numerous garments are two thousand coats and twelve hundred trousarettes. It is not money, but the love of it, that c nstitu:es the rout of all evil. Money is a virtue when used virtuously and generously. When it is made an idol, and clung to insanely, it becomes a curse, and very often an execution* r. A boy returned a juvenile story book to a library with this comment: I don't want any more of them books. The girls is all too holy. A young lady, fond of quiet stories, once requested a librarian, in a laboriously written note, to send her • something light in tbe way of friction.' British mail bag* in the Congo district of Africa have been regularly stolen by natives, who present them to their wives. The wives use them lor petticoats, and thu* what was intended pxcusively for the mails are converted into garments for the females. A Kansas woman is in trouble. Sh* communicat d with a Pniladelphia woman who advertised a remedy to remove superfluous hair Here is her doleful letter : " I sent her one dollar and got a bottle of tbe medicine, i had some fuz on my face, i r.sed the medicine and it burnt my face and now I have got a heavy beard the doctor say I will havp whiskers now all my life. NEW PLYMOUTH SAVINGS BANK. ESTABLISHED 1850. President: His Excellency the Governor. • Vice-President: H. Weston, Esq. Trustees: A. Shuttleworth, Esq, R. Cock Esq. W. L. Newman, Esq. J. Ward -2sq. The New Plymouth Savings Bank is open for the transaction of business every week day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and on Saturdays also from 2 to 4 p.m. FOUR x-ER CENT, by tbe year paid for any sum deposited from £1 to £100. One shilling deposits received, but no interest allowed until the accumulation amounts to £1. This is a public institution of 50 years' standing, with the Governor as President, who also appoints a Vu-o-President and Trustees to manage. Further information can be obtained from the Manager — P._C. MORTON, ■JAMES SANDERSON ARCHITECT Office : King's Buildings, Corner of Devon and Brougham-streets, NEW PLYMOUTH.