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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 29, 17 April 1891, Page 33 (Supplement)

" There is nothing like fun, is there? . . Oh we "I love it, I love it— the laugh of a child, need it! We need all the counter-weights we can Now ripplingand gentle, now merry and wild, muster to balance the sad realities of life. God has Oh I the laugh of a child, so wild and so free, made sunny spots in the heart ; why should we ex- 1, the merriest sound in the woi Id for inc." elude the light from them ? " — Sam Slick.

" Each care drives a nail in Our coffin, no doubt, But each merry laugh again Drives it right out." — Walcot

Brand Drawing ot Works of Art II AID OF N.E. Valley H.C. IW Building Fund 77i9 following Firms have Generously given Guinea Subscription Advertisements :—: —

The following is the DRESDEN PIANO COMPANY'S Manager's Conundrum :—: — WHY is one of the DRESDEN PIANO COY.'S Iron Framed Instruments like the Diamond Cross presented by his Lordship the Bishop ? — Give it up ?—? — Because they are both of sterling value and neither of them can climb a tree.

The Patent Prize 3TEALANDIA" COOKING RANGE <** Requires No Setting. Will burn any Coal. Can be used as an Open Fire. Iron Fretwork for Verandahs in Great Variety. BARNINGHAM & CO., Victoria Foundry. George Street.

Said Brown to Parker: "I say Parker, what's the diffeience between a ripe water-melon and a rotten head of cabbage ? " " Give it up ; can't tell." Brown laughed softly as he said, " You'd be a nice man to send to buy a water-melon, you would ! "

"Yes," said a small boy, "when I see a woman running like mad after a tramcar, waving her parasol, and shouting frantically ' Hi, hi 1' I always think that all this trouble might have been prevented if girls were only taught to whistle through their fingers."

MAY 25!!!!

ponement will take place, but that the drawing will certainly be held on the day advertised, that is May the 25th, is a recommendation that should produce a due effect, and deserves especial attention. In conclusion, the low price (one shilling) placed upon the tickets brings them within the easy reach of everyone desirous of taking part in a good work, and reduces the risk attached to failure in coming off as a winner to a minimum. We may add that th L books of tickets are small, enr'i rontaining ten tickets only, the sale of whiui entitles the winner to the complimentary ticket for * irded with each book.

♦♦« The Art-Union undertaken in aid of the North-East Valley Church, as will be seen, is one well deserving of patronage. In the first place the object is in itself most deservingof support— the building of a church being for many reasons always desirable. Not to speak of the religious ends to be attained, the erection of such a building in any particular neighbourhood is both a mark of progress and a means of still further developing and promoting it. The prizes, too, of which the list is unusually full, are of considerable value, and there is not one among them which would not form an acquisition to the person fortunate enough to win it. As a particular example we may point to the engraving given of the diamond cross, which is in every respect a faithful and wellexecuted representation of the prize in question. The fact, moreover, that no post-

If yu hay got a real good wife, kepe perfectly still, and thank God evry twenty minnitts for it. — Josh Billings An artist in Fincastle painted a dog so naturally that the animal had the hydrophobia during the hot weather. He's the same man that painted a copy of a beerbottle with such skill that the cork flew out just as he was finishing it. And after he was married he painted a picture of his first baby so life-like that it cried, and his wife whipped it before she discovered her mistake.