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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 349, 15 January 1903, Page 2

A man's old clothes are seldom bis only bad habits. Beauty is a veil that hides many feminine imperfections. m _ ~ j When carpenters strike they usually hit the. nail on the head. .. J -Some, facf 3 have a very striking apj pesrapce—clock faces, for example. A man makes his maiden speech when he Vka a apiaster to marry him '■> , j Wives who struggle to, keep up pearances usually have husbands who struggle to t eep down expenses. I ■., </\ A enwns old custom was revived at Oakky, when local clergyman pre-i sided at tbe meeting in , the vestry. A pin is insert cl in a burning candle, and so long as itr*- msiins in its tallow resting place bids *re talten. The last bidder before the pin drops is declared thej tenant for the year. Daring the hat year Paris consumed 800 tons cfenaib. The animals are bred in Burgundy and Savoy, <Where they are kept in in closures formed of tarred palings, which they cannot climb over, and are fed on vine leaves. It is said that; they thus acquire the delicate flavour of a superior Burgundy'wine; out the flavour is, in practice, generally,. oy,e#w&9lmed by] an extensive admixture of chopy ed garlic.