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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 12, 19 December 1890, Page 15

Mr. James Muir, Princes et., Dunedin, has received a shipment of hats particularly adapted to the season and suited to a 1 excursions and outings. His general stock of hats and hosiery it also most deserving of patronage.

Mr. 8. S. Bannister calls attention to the superior stock of goods always to be fount at the "Grand" Pharmacy, Highs., Dunedin Whether in the promptness and accuracy shown in making up prescriptions or in the excellent quality of the articles snpplied the establishment tnkes a first-class pi Hce. ' The Catholics of the Col >ny should see Mr. E O'Connor's catalogue for 1891, in which they wi,l fi ,d a well-aelected list of books suitable to tnem in all reep-cts. No Catholic household a< ould be with utan abund.nt supply of wholesomn and instructive reading and Mr. O'Connor's efforts have brought such within easy reach of all. No money spent during the holiday season will be better laid out than that expended in such an establishment as thit referred to The late Professor Galbraith. a few days before he died, expressed to an old friend a wish that his funeral should be a priva'e one, and unaccompanied by any political demonatration. " But," he added " don't imagine that I say this because I have changed'my views on my death-bed. On the contrary, I should be glad to die with ' God Bave Ireland ' for my laat word." He waa a good, true, patriotic Irishman.

Another instance of the injurious effects on the brain of cigarette smoking, says the Memphis Catholic Journal, was given by the testimony of Dr. Williford in the Criminal Court. The physician was giving evidence relative to the sanity of Reeves, who murdered Rev. Father Ashfield.and stated that there was no queation of doubt but that exceaaive cigarette amoking would lead to insanity. Parents should bear this well in mind, and see that their young sons are Dot addicted to this dangerous habit.

Thelrish aristocrat is the poorest type of the class to be found anywhere. He ia very rarely educated ; he is never patriotic, never punlic-spirited ; his hand is never in hit own pocket, and uever out of the taxpayer's ; he has never given a penny to fchools or charities (unless proselytising charities) or public undertakings of any kind. He has been a cruel and mean landlord, a rascally and jobbing grand juryman, and a partisan magistrate. Morals have never been his strong point, an 1 even his manners are such as to hare called fonh the remark-exaggerated, no doubt, but still with a big gr,.in of irmh in it— that "the only people in Ireland who nave n t the manners of gentlefolk are the gentry." For these reasons. I (Truth) would like to starve him out before Home Rule comes. Unless he in on his kneea, fettered and bound, when Home Rule comes, I am afraid he will make a very good thin? out of it. He will turu patriot and pick up all the best plums from the tree wbicb the Nationalists nave shaken,