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Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 89, 8 July 1879, Page 3

Donations. — Not long ago the Wesleyan Methodists in England resolved to raise (he sura of £200,000. The first meeting was held soon afterwards, when the sum of £31,000 was raised. It was a humorous subscription, for one gentleman rose and said he would give £1,000 in memory of his sainted mother ; another said ho would give £500 in memory of a dead wife ; another £50 in honor of a beloved sister ; and for a long ti»c this style of giving went on. At length one man said he would give £200 because he was not on board the illfated Princess Alice. - This became immediately eonatgious, for shortly after a mau rose and offered £ll>o because ho was not a shareholder in the city of Glasgow bunk. It was expected soino gentleinun would give £1,600 becaude ha was not a member of the Opposition, r-r a British Afghan. "iToaquin Miller," says the New York Herald, >( likes to holu a woman's hand in liia own." We can't ..ee why he shouldn't prefer a piece of pie. A lady writer is out with an article on • titled', " How to Catch a Husband." But her theory is all wrong. Aslr any married woman how to catch a husband, and she will reply, "By the hair." A sharp Toledo girl said of a gentleman to whom she had just been introduced that he would be very presentable if nature hadn't turned up so much of his legs to make feet of.