FOND BELIEFS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3648, 22 March 1883, Page 4

FOND BELIEFS.

That moni'v can be borrowed from bankers. That there is only one tailor who can make a coat. That poets encourage the '' elevation of the stage " by selling poetical dramas for next to nothing-. That Mr Bradlaugh could not be converted if the Bishop of Winchester gave him one-third of his income. That people who are found starved to doiith have died frum obstinacy. That bill-discounting is a profitable business. That rates and taxes are fairly divided over the whole area of the population. That Parliament ought to meet for talk and not for work. That pure pater and brilliant gas can be had by paying for them. That the electric, light will never go byyond the stage of stock-jobbing. That prize-fighting has been abolished. That pigvoii-shootiny i.s free frum. cruelty, and will last for ever. That tramways are quite agreeable to vested interests. That the licensing magistrates have improved the tone of public: amusements. That a policeman is made any cleverer by being put into plain clothes. That the bank rate of discount has much to do with the money market.