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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 39, 28 January 1898, Page 27

There is a good story told of two Englishmen who were travelling along a country road near a village in the north of Ireland. As they came near a field in which two Irishmen were sowing hemp, they resolved upon testing the worth of Irish humour. " Well, Pat," «ays one of the English wags. %% you are sowing seed there, and we will reap the benefit of it." '• I have no doubt you will," returned Pat, '■ I am sowing hemp." Scene in a Cheshire Church. —An extraordinary incident occurred recently at a church in the Wilmslow district. A couple had arranged to be married, and the party duly arrived at the church, but the clergyman perceiving that the bridegroom was under the influence of drink, refused to perform the ceremony. The couple and their friends were naturally much disappointed, and they at once left the church and drove away. Death from Laughter in a Music Hall. — An incident as remarkable as it was tragic occurred at the Empire Concert Hall, Birmingham recently, while Dan Leno was singing. A married woman who sat in the gallery laughed so immoderately that she went into an apoplectic fit, and died almost before a doctor who was in the audience could aid her in any way. There is seldom a line of glory written upon the earth's face but a line of suffering runs parallel with it. They that read the lustrous syllables of the one and stoop not to decipher the other, get the least half of the lesson the earth has to give. — Faber. How shall we know the good books from the bail ? Just as you distinguish between persons — by reputation and acquaintance. You are cautious m regard to your company ; you make no acquaintance except on the strength of a proper introduction or general reputation. Use the same rule with books. — Munger. Mr. Gawne, of Dunedin (says the Southland Times of April 13, 1S01), has just been on a visit to Invercargill to push business a little. Not that it wants much canvassing, for since he commenced the manufacture of his Worcestershire Sauce, the demand has kept pace with his capacity to supply it. He makes a really good thing, indistinguishable from the famous Lea and Perrin's, which he places upon one's table at a much lower price, and trusts to that to secure a steadily growing trade. Those who have not yet tried the colonial article should put their prejudice aside for a time and test the question with a bottle or two.— ADVT