Separated by plenty of water from the adjoining islands, as they call Great Britain -and Ireland, the Manxmen have been able to preserve a .good d«al of their old ceremony and machinery of government. Their Parliament is a House of Keys, though what "Keys" may mean nobody rightly knows. Their judges are Deemsters, and their provinces are sheadings, which is pronounced as if spelt with, a double "c." .They legislate for themselves, and they used to have their own Icing. While lecturing his congregation, rather gbrongly on. a .recent Sunday about slack attendance and small collections, a minister of a voluntary churoh used the following eloquent and forcible sentence : " Yes, brethren, our collection, of a little over three pounds last Sunday included no fewer than j 500 halfpennies. We all know about the widow's mite, and I am sure we are very glad to receive it; but I don't, think there «re 500 widows in this congregation !"
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7203, 14 September 1901, Page 3
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157Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Star (Christchurch), Issue 7203, 14 September 1901, Page 3
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