CULLED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2207, 25 November 1920, Page 4

CULLED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

The adjournment of Pariia.ment sometimes causes perplexity among the country clergy as to whether the prescribed prayer for the Houses of Parliament, "at this time assembled, should be continued, writes the ‘‘Morning Post.” A former warden of Merton College, Oxford, once attended tho service at a remote moorland church where this difficulty arose. When he came to the prescribed collect the clergyman leaned over to where the cleric was silting and asked, in a very whisper, ‘‘.is Parliament sitting?” “I don’t know,” replied the clerk. ‘‘Shall I say (he prayer for them, asked, the rector. "Well, in a confidential shout from the clerk, I think you’d belter pray for them, because they’re a bad lot!” “One of the wisest .sayings I know is from an old classic which lingers in inv mind from my selioohlajs, sava Mr J. Whitley, M.P., Deputy Speaker of the House ol Commons. ‘‘Hippocrates, who lived about the 15th century, 8.C., in answer to Hie question why he was always so happy, said these words: ‘Love ol mv fellows ami love ol' my Job. 1 lu - s is‘the secret of happiness in England. You will notice which ho puts first . ‘Love of your follows.’ There is the secret of success in any kind of woik —a number of people co-operating together in carrying out a purpose. What is the reason why the world is so long settling down to peace, and whv is there also within our bounds, in our own country, this same tailing? Because we have not gripped the meaning of our own humanity One of the greatest finds ol the book stalls was surely (bat of a man who picked up a shabby cop> ol Florio’s Montaigne (on original edition), will) a signature "W m. Shakespeare" in it, for 2/- at a sccond-haml bookseller’s in Kingsland Road, London. He sold this to the British Museum for quite a large ° be 1200 —and the bookseller, becomFJorio'.s Montaigne (on original ctlr " ing, cognisant of the affair took action. but failed to establish his ease. Professor Flinders Petrie read a paper before t|m British Association last month proving that the end of the world need not be expected lot a fow ’hundred thousand years. Mi Petrie is not so lenient, however as a Professor who'was lecturing some, years ago in Fife on the sun. Hi seven hundred million years, he <eclarcd, "the sun will be a cohi bod> like the moon, and there will be no heat or light or life on the earth. ‘‘How 1-long did you say that would be. mister?” asked a farmer excitedly. “Seven hundred million jeais, mv friend.” “Thank heaven.” said the farmer huskily, as lie sank back into his chair, with evident relief; 1 thought you said seven million.