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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 13, 26 December 1890, Page 7

An oil well has beeo opened at Fiodlay, Ohio, which flowed over 1000 barrels the first hour, and in seven hours filled 6,340 barrels. Tbis breaks the record of oil wells in Ohio, if not in tht- world.

The Comte de Paris was magnificently entertained in Montreal. He made a speech in which ha said he saw signs ominous to France, but that I anada'a future is bright and promising.

According to Cardinal Newman there are two kinds of fools, riz,, " the bom fool, and the self-made idiot." The self-made idiot's usual method of degradation is drink, or opium, or vice. But laziness, if cr ss enough, will do the trick as well as gin or laudanum and my own opinion about Mr. Balfour is that, though he was not by aay means born a fool, he is very fast becoming one. We have had almost all sorts at the head of affairs, prigs and geniuses, and pliin men of sense, stroDg men, and weak. But since the Revolution we have never had a mere loafer at the head of affairs, and it is hardly likely that we ever shall. My notion is that Mr. Baifour's most considerable achievement will be to add a new verb to the language. We all know what the phrase to " Boss a Business " means. Well, to " Balfour a Business " means just the opposite. It means not to atteud to it, to leave everything to clerks, never to look in at tbe office except in the afternoon, and then only for a glass of sherry and a biscuit. Man? a man "Balfours" his business. But usually not for long.— Truth,