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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1247, 15 January 1883, Page 2

The following, which we clip from anA Australian exchange, should be of interest W to housewives now that new potatoes are in season : “AU potatoes excepting the very early kinds, should be put into cold water to draw from) them the peculiar poisoning which pervades potatoes and eauses many persons to dislike them. The early new potatoes do not possess this quality but in the slightest degree, and are therefore best put into boiling water, which, so to say, ripens them, while cold water helps to make them more waxy than is natural to them.” The presence of the professional element in football is unrortunaelty, no new thing, and although much displeasure has been expressed at the hateful thing it has made its reappearance thus early in the season. In the match, Notts County v. Aston Villa, played on Saturday, Gunn, the Notts professional cricketer, made his appearance, of course on the side of the county. It is scarcely probable fl that h® would play without remuner- " ation. With such practices as these in vogue, it is uo matter for surprise that the 'Varsities do not care to enter for the Association Cup. What resemblance i» there between kind words and the bald-headed ? Kind words can never die, and the bald-headed can never dye either. Gentleman from the Country: “ May I have the pleasure Miss Society: “ O«i.” Gentleman from the Cournty : " What does 1 we’ mean Miss Society :“O, U and I!" Sir Garnet Garnet Wolseley’s favorite “tickler.”—The Black Watch. ■ '