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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1668, 26 March 1886, Page 4

The tiondon and 'North-Western Com- ■ pany have 'decided. tor6-lay '/their- permanent, way with • raeta,l sleepers v m place otj wood. The experiments already tried have'.nrov,ed,^.s» r y Batisfat'tory,' :a'ri'd; the manufacture of these sleepers is /now being pushed forward, 'at' the Crewe works. ;At present they will- be' put : down whom Jt is necessary" to lay new permanent way. A podr : w6man carrying a basket tof apples, Vvas met liy three boys, the first of whom bought half of what she had, : and then KHxe.he.i'bafk-10.; the second boy bought a third of what remained and gave her back 2 ; and the third bought half of what she hail now. left and returned her ■! ;',• after .which i. she. found she had 13 apples remaining! What number bad she at first? '■•'■•> - ■'■• Teacher— '-What! jecui't anjr.of f ypu[: tellina what l-a-m-e4rieans ?- Now, ! »f' ' you saw a. poor, mixn/coming.-' ont:i>f ' the; liospitaL who could hardly walk, you'd say he is — what?' •■ / : -V--liifee'lli ifeiit • • p'upi J •.- 1 ['■ (aftera long pause} : ; f Please,' . 'm, I ; know— tipsy, '••;;'■;;,■',;..•.:;' , ' -^ ■:':-■>■ >..i-->.* i '■ ■■'..- Yotrng huißblihdi '""'Now," love', -xviiicV will you have for your, Christ'mae- presents.,— the ' chatelain ' witch, the bracelets, or the necklace ■ ?'•',.; Young ; wife : "We roust avoid unnecessary ci- ; pense these hard times, dear. : I ; tn 'stiro ' if yo'ii buy all three : . the; je.weiler will give you n redujction on them. . - I'm your own saving, ecorioiuical little -wifey, am I riot?": % '; ;. ; ; ■;;■ A lady 'leetjuMng'ori^tjedt'ptaHsin said •"' Coijeider {ha number of persons who drink themselves to death." My firandfather drnnk' himself to death." One of the aiulicnqe got up and said, ' '* Mn'arn, if your graii'linqtrjer; was? siJoha womsin as.yr-n, it accounts for itj'Van.d: walked out. f he meeting broke up m (Jiaovdi-r. A very funny tliingMiao|Seri<'d recenHy I (''says tits Baihe) at;'one i>f the jiollingi HiHtioim; m a Lan i: ar«liii.-ft. district.' •' A voter, .whose* int<.'llp.ctiii\l taciilties .were of the hazy orric, but who .was deeply'impressed with tho tpri-H)ly momentous and rpspoiiHible nature' of; th«; .'duty:' -he hnd f<> perform, iv-mainpd so long be hind Hi" cvrjtiiiifs of- fh^ voting b^x,th;ilv (In' pcllin^ clerks l>egaii' to jf^a^ soin« \ \\\\na ha- 1 ''gone wrong with' liiift".' At 6 ltiitgtli the curtain wns. drawn' gently aside, and he popped his h»-ad out, and tiniidlj' , and doferential.ly I ',.' inquired, " May I come oot.Tiwjr?"—— .__.. '