What Everybody Says.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1807, 17 October 1874, Page 2

What Everybody Says.

" In multitude of counsellors.there is safety." ■ —OiiD Proverb,

Its overybpdy/s ppinipn that there hasn't been a single: thing; during; the week worth writing* jabout.i. The usual dull routine of a dull week has come and/ gone and nobody killed-^no fatal a;ccideiit happened to useless dog« or other four footed beasts. Some little personalities at mining company meeting!; some r further squabbling at Hospital Committee meetings ; and there you hare the doings of the week. Uninteresting as these things be tome notice must be taken of events and current gossip, or else it will be said that everybody is out of town. Apropos of the mining meeting squabble has it struck-anybody that the whole business was a small farce ? No ? Then everybody must be exceedingly, dull. But no matter. Everybody had. better stick to the doctrine that what is is! right and they wont griere. This optimist philosophy is amazingly accommodating. The consolations derivable from it are admirably suited to the; utilitarian spirit of the times, and so long as ererybody can adapt themselrea to circumstances they will be right. What can't be cured must be endured—which as how the Hospital Committee, sub-committee, and deluded shareholders of mining companies may take, considerable comfort from.

A nice little scheme*; appears to have been upset. The "Queen of Beauty people won't come into the drainage scheme unless on their own terms. 1 hey are willing to pay their assessment, but they object to do so under an order from the Court. I)id ever anybody listen to such blarrioy. Everybody says they are wrong, -except .those who say; they are right ; so without expressing; an opinion . on« -way..• or the other, everybody says " Pay up and. look pleasant"—a piece of ad vice; which may perhaps be tendered and accepted without rendering- everybody liable to a charge of partiality. .People with dull intellects art getting slightly obfuscated with the multifarious forms of belief being promulgated' by different individuals. For instance, one states his interpretation' of prophesy to mean that the wicked will be annihilated; another believes and teaches the universal redemption of : all. How in the midst of these conflicting opinions persons of ordinary sense are to steer clear of Doubtland, is, and must remain a mystery to everybody, until such time as a new prophet shall arise. The most difficult racing problem of the age has been solved, and our "friends and fellow.-countrymen have done it for us. They have succeeded in getting over \ the pons assinorum of racing i with much greater £ase than most youngsters experience in attempting to cross Euclid's ass's bridge. But how has it been done. -Listen! From a recent North of Ireland paper the following extract is taken, and if the most obtuse cannot see the joke 1 his committal to the Whau should follow :—

; " Tbotiih-G- Match. — Thursday morning, shortly aftar. eight o'clock, a trotting match took place on the Antrim road between Mr. McLeich's pony Rodger and 7 a pony belonging to Mr. Muesen. The distance; wm from the sixth to the .fourth .mile stone. There was a large attendance of |the sporting fraternity present. Mr. Musaen's mare was made the favorite- at 3 to 2. Contrary, however, to expectation, Rodger took the lead, and,, never being headed, won in a OANTEB by; upwards; of fifty yards. ; Mr. Costello drove the winner." ? .

Here we have a matter settled which ordinary individuals—not to say sportsmen—would consider more difficult than squaring the circle... It is no less than winning a trotting race in a canteri