Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 24 March 1892, Page 3

Notes and Events.

Here is a joke from a Scotch paper — the, Piper o 'Dundee : — An old man was weeping over a tombstone, and a gentleman passing asked with sympatny, " Have you lost a dear relative?" "No," said the old man, pointing to the inscription that read : " Here lies a lawyer and an honest man ;" " but I was wondering how they happened to lay two poor fellows in one grave."

There are some men born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward Richard Mason, clerk, of no fixed place of abode, is a striking example of this ancient axiom. " What's the use of trying to be honest?" said he to the magisterial Mr Hannay, when he was charged before that gentleman with stealing two second-hand books from a shop in Charing .Cross-road ; " every time I am hard up and steal anything I have the misfortune to be caught. I haven't got any luck anyhow." Mr Hannay felt it would be useless expostulating with poor Richard on his mode of life, and simply remarked, " Three months."

The World says : — The most notable trait in the Duke of Clarence's character has scarcely been mentioned by oither writers or preachers. He was a very dutiful son, and the most affectionate of brothers. The now unfashionable virtue of filial piety was certainly the most marked feature in his character, and no parents ever had a more thoroughly docile son ; he implicitly obeyed their wishes on every occasion.