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Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 67, 14 January 1880, Page 3

A lecturer on chemistry lately discoursed in this fashion :—“ To illustrate 'how elements that are perfectly harmless in themselves may become destructive by combination, takes the case of a gun and n smell boy. What can be more harm* f]#ss than each of these when alone by itself or what can be more dangerous when in combinatiou ?

Those new sparer editors who are tco obstinate to retract any unjust or improper language -which tliev have admitted to ‘their columns should profit'by the example •of an editor who gives notice as follows : “ If any subscriber finds a line in his paper'that ho does not like and cannot .-agree with, it lie will bring his paper to the office md point out the ©flending line rthe editor will take his scissors and cut it out f< r him.

■An affected young lady, seated in a :j-i eking chair, reading the bible, exclnim--ed—“ Mother, here is a grammatical error -in the Bible.!” Her mother, lowered her Bpectacles. and approaching the reader in a yery scrutinising attitude, said —“Kill -it ! kill it It is the very tiring that lias -eaten the leaves and the book-marks !”

-A 'youth'in this city whs sent home by 3iis mother with a basket of clean clothes that she had washed for a customer. IThe boy met a dog that didn’t appear to ■have anything to do, ao he set down his load and with a string lied it to the dog’s tail, then started him with a pin. The <boy watr half an hour gathering 'up the spoiled things, buthis mother wasn’t any 'time at till getting him over her knee and starting a pair of blisters. Parliamentary motto for the winter 'Oh, let us-be jawful. A. rich young lady has fallen in lore 'with and married a New York street car diirer. From the bridle and the halter die Trent to .the altar and the bridal, and the only train and switch to occupy his -mind hereafter are those belonging to his -wife. She takes him for wheel or wlioa, as it were. A young lady in the East ate half a wedding cake, and then tried to dream of dur future husband. Now she says she would rather die than marry the man she saw in.Ler dream.