ODDS AND ENDS

New Zealand Tablet, 18 October 1906, Page 38

ODDS AND ENDS

Of all the peoples' of Europe, the French have the fewest children and- the, Irish the- .most. TJie average French family number's -3.3 persons, and the average Irish family 5.2. In England the average is 4.8; 'If I punish you,' said a mother to her" little girl, ' you don't suppose that I do so for my pleasure, do you ? ' ' Then, whose pleasure is it for, mamma ? ' Never judge a friend, by his- relatives ~ but by his friends. One isn't responsible - for .his relatives. Be they good, bad, or indifferent, they are thrust" upon ' him, but friends are self-chosen, and what they are so is the person. __ A recently published bulletin of the Census Bureau shows that 19,625,757 copies of daily newspapers a re turned out each week-day in. the United States. One newspaper for every four persons ! The number printed on or for Sundays is 11,534,521.