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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2221, 26 October 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)

A poor girl novel' Ims much to do with lawyers, but soiino oi tilio-in lr.ive lie; “I dreamt last night I proposed to a pretty girl- folio. “Wliat did I say?” Doctor: “Yes, Air. Jones, the best tiling to do will be to examine you under tho Rontgen ray.” Jones (sotto voce); “Rontgen ray, oil? I expect he wants to see bow , much mone.v I have in my pocket.” 1 ‘Wliat havo you to say as to this eli u-go that you kissed this girl? “I admit it; .but the.ro were extenuating er cu instil n ces.’’ —-AV'li-at weic they?”—“She sat in my lap and throw her arms around mv neck. 'Not yet hopeless.—Edi-tli: 1 showed father one of your poems, and lie was delighted.” Egbert: “Indeed!” “Yes; lie said it was scbad lie thought you’d probably In able to earn a living at somethin}, else.” Agitator; In order that you ma; understand our candidate, I liav brought you liis programme. AVo man voter: But, my dear friend you have omitted to bring wliat i far moro important—liis photogra-pb

Il'Elt FAVORITE TREE. Timid Yoijt'h: “Sha-fshall wo go and sit under tlio w-willow, Ainas Ethel?” , . Demur© Maiden : “AVhy not under tlio pop-pop-poplar, dear?” STRICTLY LIMITED. . Hopeful : “Fia.ther, does a diplo■lll at have to know much S’” Father: “Well, ho has to know enough not to know too much.”

ALL IN THE SWUM. ‘‘Hive you been allowing games of chance in your house?” said the 111agist rate to a delinquent publican. I “No, your Worship—no,” was the defence; “/there, was no‘chance about i,t. Everybody ehea/ted.” NO NEED FOR INSURANCE. The following testimonial was given to a servant girl: “This is to certify that thait the bearer bus been n iiiy serviiee one year less eleven -non-tiis. During this time I found her to lie diligent at the back door, ■omperato at her work, prompt at >xcnses, amiable towards young gen.lomeii,- faithful to Jier sweethearts, md honest when everything was mfe under lock and key.” HIS AVEAKNESS. “Well,” said he, anxious to patch ip their quarrel, “aren’t you curi.us to know wbit’s in this parcel?” “Not very,” replied the still beJH;erent wife. “AVell, it’s something for the one love best ill all tlio world.” “All, 1 suppose it’s those collars •ou said you needo- 1 ”

Tho Bermudas export over 17,0000001 b of onions annually. Candor, in Advertisement.— Annual sale now on. Don’t go elsewhere to bo cheated —come in lierc. ,Martha Heidi, ei«h* years cfl(l, routed two burglars at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. She fired twiico at them with her father’s revolver, and U 'fA Airs. Harrison, of Bombay, AYe.stniorkiiul, who are 89 and 85 years old respectively, have harvested the hay crop from them ten " The° Pico for the British International Motor-boat Cup m feoutlumpton AViater resulted in a victory fir America. There were five entries, and the American boat, owned h.v Air. E. J. Schroeder, did do Hides 1 75min Usee. 14io nearest Bu-tifch boat, owned by Lord Howard de Walden, took 77-nnn 2osec. The live and an adjoining spur of Hie Cliiltern Hills, near Hagh Wycombe, are nightly overrun wit'll a countless host of frogs. Local rc».dents have had to seek fresh promenades, and a crus-ado against Uie frogs is being planned. V t wen-tyeo-ne-word inessago sent bv tlio Poul-sen system of wireless telegmpby from a liner in nwd-At-lantic was received at the company s Ste'ditu station, near Berlin. it had travelled 2002 miles, over Ireland, England, and part of Germany. It is the most successful message yet sent across land as well as s-eu.

For a specimen of tlio Athene de-kudr-achm, B.C. 490-460, on© of the rarest early Greek coins, no lees than £2OO was recently paid. Washington is practically tho only capital oi-ty in tho world which lias no slums. Berlin has none of tlio squalid areas which disgrace London. A French statistician estimates that about 550,000 motor cars havo been manufactured in tho nine years since tho experiments of self-propel-led road vehicles first succeeded. Everybody can write with tho left hand when the necessity comes. It came to a famous woman novelist who bad neuritis, and tlio left hand came at once into play. /Mr. E. F. Knight,- the traveller and war correspondent, bad his right arm destroyed in the Boer war. He sot his left'hand to work. And within a few months that left band wrote as well as the light over did. Before long a tram do luxe wall run daily from Tokyo to Europe, and vice versa. The Compagnie International des AVagon-Lits has received an order for the cars for tho service, and the rout© selected for the mail and passenger service passes through Japan to Shiimonoseki, thence by large ferry steamers' to Fusuu, in the south of Korea, through Korea to Mukden and Harbin, and thence through Siberia to Europe. This will constitute the route affording the shortest sea journey to Europe from Australia, via Port Darwin,’ should railway connection be made between that port and the Queensland line, which is to be opened to Oloncurry early in the coining year.