Cleanings.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 744, 5 June 1894, Page 7

Cleanings.

Dunce. Your education is complete you think ? Dunce that you are ; and dunce you’re doomed to be As long as, babbling on the shallow brink, You think you are sailing on the wide, wide sea. I’ve striven to know, and, finding knowledge sweet. Have learned a hundred times as much as you, And yet I feel I’ve only wet my feet, With all broad ocean stetched before my view. Charles Mackay. ****** Speech may be silver, but there is a lot of it that is not sterling. * * * * * * M. Camille Flamniarion, Jwriting on the possibility of the planet Venus being inhabited, says :—Beyond doubt the best established cosmic theories sanction the belief that Venus is as old as the earth ; but in my opinion, at least, this is not sufficient reasonjfor concluding that it has remained so long as we have in a state of barbarism. Just as there are considerable differences in the activity of beings, so there should be differences in worlds, and we may indulge in the idea that our neighbours in the heavens do not regard as types of social perfections soldiers, canons, rifles, and bombs. ****** A natural man is a combination of streaks of good and bad. ****** General Neal Dow, whose 90th birthday was generally observed by Temperance (? Prohibition) advocates on|Marcn2o, was born in Portland, Maine. His father was a tanner and a member of the Society of Friends. Tn 1851 he succeeded in getting signed what is known all over the world as the ‘ Maine Liquor Law.' In summer he rises at 5 o’clock, in winter at 6. He breakfasts in summer at 7 30, and in winter half an hour later. The time between his rising and breakfast hour he usually spends in reading or writing. He dines at 1, has a light supper at 6, and retires usually at 9 o’clock. General Dow believes that there is intemperance in eating as well as in drinking, and be never rises from the table without feeling that be would like to cat more. In appearance General Dow is pleasing. Though small he is straight, and compactly built. In youth he was quite an athlete. ******

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