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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2070, 20 May 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

His Favorite Quotation.— There is nothing like having a variety of rooms, for then all the tastes in the ho'nsehoM can he gratified. I heard the other day of a newly married couple who mildly disagreed as to whether some religious mottoes should be hung on the walls of their only apartment. They couldn’t have each a room to adorn, you sec, and so the question had to he settled. At length the husband consented to have one scriptural quotation displayed, and the delighted wife insisted that he should make the selection. He did so. It was this, and painted without such capitalization as to show that the “ me" and my" were divinity instead of himself; “If you love mo keep my commandments."

Disposing of the Flies— A vermin exterminator of llostou recently offered to'oloar a large brewery of a vast (plantity of Mies which had collected by the millions in the beer hogsheads, for sixty- pounds. The proprietor agreed to the terms, and the man went to work. “ Roll these barrels into the ice room," said the exterminator. The barrels were rolled inlo tbo room where, the ice was made. “ freeze ’em !" said he. The brewery men were surprised (bat tbov had not thr.uelil oft bat simple remedy. Tie y tried it, and in a sle.it lime swept nui e.ninllos numbers of frozen Hies.