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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1600, 5 January 1886, Page 4

Christianity, if it means anything, means sixteen puuees to the pound, three, feet to the yard, a just weight and a just measure. It means honesty m dealings, a seven-days-in-the -week religion, purity m conversation, a broad charity towards our fellow men's failings, unflinching integrity, sympathy, and humanity. With these there can be no compromise.

David Hume, the historian, observed .that all ihe devout men he had met with were melancholy. Bishop Home remarked m reply, that this might very probably be the case ; for, m the first place, it was most likely he saw very few, hisfriends and acquaintances being of a very different kind ; and, secondly, the sight of him would make a devout man look melancholy at any time. ~-

In the town of Vistabelle, Province of Caßtall6n, Spain, a couple of well-to-do people were recently married, and celebrated the event with a grand dinner. All who ate of that dinner, including the bride and bridegroom, aud the poor, among whom the remains of the feast were distributed, were suddenly seized with symptoms of poisoning. No fewer than 17 died, and over 60 were m a critical condition. From a local paper it appears that the father of the brido, owed a small sum of money, which he would not, or could not, pay. The creditor went to see hi*n just as the dinner was being prepared, and threw some poison into one of the dishes.

In one of the state schools of Canterbury a £1 note wa» picked up last year by one of the .scholars, who handed it over to the teacher. The cowmitte re* tamed it for some, time, when it was changed by their orders, and ten 'shillings handed, m the presence of the whole school, to the boy who found it, "as a token of his honesty.''

For Consumption •' iJaxter' Lung Preserver has been signally successful In Coughsland G B lds, " Baxter's Lung Preserver s tnrlraUfid*