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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2021, 24 January 1887, Page 2

Two country attorneys, overtaking - a waggoner on ihe road, and thinking to be witty upon him, asked why his fore horse was so fat and the rest so lean. The waggoner, knowing them, answered that bis first horse was lawyer, and the rest his clients. An old lady, who received company on her 08th birthday, amused them by recounting some of her experiences : —That though she had lived so and had always criticised men pretty shrewdly, there were three points re-> garding their impatience which sb 0 could never make out. The first po : lD t was, why, as boys, they would lr aoc k the apples oil' the tree, because they would ouly have a little patK jCce the apples would fall off themselves. The next was, why people WO uld go to war and kill each other, if would only have a little patience thgr would die of themselves. And W third was why the young men w3» always running after the girls , for if they would ouly have a little patienos, tho girls would run alter them. According to the Pall Mall Gazette there is at last some sign that thf narrow prejudice agaiuat cremation which has been more prevalent in Germany than elsewhere, will be overcome. in the course of the present year two eminent Germans —the chief superintendent of the Evangelical Church, Dr Schwarz, and Brunswick minister, Herr von Liebe—have been cremated, and their example has done more to change public feeling than anything that has ever been said or written. The Berlin Cremation Society is now sbowuig signs, of new life. Branch societies are springing up most of the large German towns and a petition lor burial reform, bearing 80,000 signatures has beou presented to the Keichstag, to the delight of Professor Virchow, the apostle of ch? movement. -_d