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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 213, 7 September 1880, Page 4

I A gentleman having a servant with a very thick skull, used often to call him the king of fools. " 1 wish," said tjie fellow one day, "you could make your words good, as I 'should then be the monarch of the world." | " What is the worst thing about riches ?" ' asked the Sunday school superintendent. Audthe new boy 'a the bad class under the gallery, who only came in last Sunday, stood up and said, " Their scarcity." | A singular discovery was made in Paris one day last week during the alterations which are row being.carried out at the General Post office. In a pjinel near one of the boxes was found ajletter, which had bee^n posted exactly 50 years ago, and which. by some mischance had got stuck in the panel instead of finding its way inter the box. Tjhe letter was duly forwaided to the ppty to whom it was addressed, who, sdill more strangely, was alive and who received it safely. The writer, however, had been dead many years. If a young fady wished a young gentleman to kiss her, what papers wjould she men tips, ? No Spectator, no Observer, but as many Times as you like. We wish to add that- she" would like to have it done with Dispatch, no Register or Journal koipt of it, anjd for him not to Herald it io a Recorder, nor Chronicle it abroad. Her lips should only be Repository.':. If &yMessefogergdt it, the World would soon, know H, for News is now carried by 'Telegraph, where it was formerly done fey .the Courier, who was always ready to Gazette it In the act, the Press upon her lips should be light, but perfect. That ja our Standar^ of* kissing, vfirstv assuring ourßelyes£thjjit ; ii6 f jirgus.veyei was' upon us, v and the "'cnlj^Rejieefor* present a Mirror. We have also to; Aavocate'tlie aboye; tmd ' JSxpreis' a' hojpe that no Cross Guardian will object to the Union of his ward Judy with an Independent _ Mail Qohnist'va.. this Age of the Globe. ... TheseMviewp ar& upheld by : the leader, of London. Society and the Insh 'MtUn. \ A movement is od foot in Sydney to establish by co-operßtion a ceDtral butter market, by which all the batter trade could be so concentrated ea to | equalise prices io about 9d per lb in in summer ad lSd in winter, the surplus being exported Co England and elsewhere. The Orient Company are fitting up their steamers with refrigerai ting-rooms which would enable the butter to be Bent borne perfectly fresh, and sweet, and we presume a similar chamber for storage would be fitted upi on shore, so that stock could be held for a considerable time without deterioration. The idea, is 8 good one, and would meet the difficulty that while at times in the winter there is a gre&t scarcity of good butter, jn suthmer there is an over-supply, and consequently pricea rise and fall unduly. Another thing that is contemplated in ihe plan to which we have alluded is (he classification of the batter, so that tha beat quality should get the beat price as is done at Cork (Ireland). If an| export trade is satis fa ctoiily . established New Zealand ought to benefit largely, as it is a country so admirably adfp ted for dairying, ■ i •■''