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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 25, 20 October 1893, Page 31

Myebs and Co., Dentists, Octagon, corner of George street The guarantee highest class work at moderate fees. Tbeir artificial teeth give general satisfaction, and the fact of them supplying a temporary denture while tbe gums are healing does away with the inconrenience of being months without teeth. They manufacture a single artificial tooth for Ten Shillings, and sets equally moderate. The administration of nitrous oxide gas is also a great boon to those needng the extraction of a tooth. Read— [Aovr. Impoliteness in children. I, load laughter ; 2, reading when others are talking ; 3, cutting finger nails in company ; 4, whimpering in company ; 5, gazing at strangers ; 6, leaving a stranger without a seat ; 7, a want of reverence for superiors ; 8, reading aloud in company without being asked ; 9, receiving a present without some manifestation of gratitude ; 10, making yourself the topic of conversation ; 11, langhine at the mietakeß of o'hers ; 12, joking others in company ; 13, correcting older persona than yourself, especially parents ; 14, to commence talking before others are through ; 15 answering questions when put to others; 16, commencing to eat as soon as you get to the table, and, 17, in not listening to w"hat one is ■aying in company, unless you desire to show open contempt for the speaker, A well-bred person will not make an observation whilst an3ther of tha company is addressing himseif to it. No one misses the roof of Blarney Castle, where tbe famous stone may be kissed by proxy at the moderate charge of ten cents a kiss. It is a paying exhibit. From morning till night every day of the week, and in all kinds of weather, people clamber up the narow winding stairs to kiss and see others kiss the Bpot where the Blarney Bo ne ought to be. Irish people are mild in their enthusiasm compared to those who do not hail from the Island of Saints. Americans are tbe bf6t patrons of the stone, and the American girls ' take the cake." It may be said in passing that taere is something like a half belief in the stone's v'rtne, and those ladies patronise it most whose looks would indicate a greater need of its aid. It is a comical sight to watch the laughing, jostling throng of old and young trying to rtsnceal their half-seriousness under a mask of fun ac, after much •«nMfiHg *nd hesitation, Borne girl finally go s down on her knees and Rives the magic spot or its representative a reßcunding emack, and a bant of applause goes up. But the coolness and self-coiitrol of the Irish attendant never forsake him, and he stands the most severe crow-examination without a blink or a smile.