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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5455, 6 January 1896, Page 3

MORE BABOO ENGLISH.

A gem of a memorial from the Indian Education Department :-r-"Madame, during my fatality and' precestination, I lost my employment and' my orbits ause me as a pilgarlic, shiftless' and unpreferred man, here, I have to admonish my legs to the foreign countries- for this ill-fame. I therefore, most respectfully deprecate you to excuse'the unextinguishable malef action, defying your orders which I was doing in your schools. I though that I might be permitted as . your soHfidion to teach that class with an> increased salary, but my bad luck has driven me out of employment."

In the] half-year, 478 persons were killed and 1895 injured on railways in the United Kingdom. There were over 600 exhibits at the Crystal Palace Cat Show. A gold medal was Warded a brown tabby ; another prize winner was a pure white cat with light blue eyes. One lady exhibited twenty-seven^ cats, and another twenty-five. There were enormous- Persians, one tortoiseshell" Tom, and a young tiger-cat. One annual bore the price of .£IOOO. A statistician contends that 284 years hence the world's population will' amount to 6,000,000,000, and the earth being unable to find nourishment for its population, they will be forced to starvation or cannibalism.

The fat pauper of Poplar has been again sent to gaol for six weeks for going to deep instead of doing Ms work. Before the sentence could be pronounced he fell asleep in the dock and had to be> aroused for removal to the cells.

"How I pity the poor felloAvs whose business requires them to be out on a night like this," said the policeman, looking out fr.ow the kitchen, window.