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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 7, 10 November 1883, Page 4

In the common phrases, "it rains,” "it thunders,” &o, it is common to say that the subject of the verb ia understood. The fact is, however, that such phrases were invented because the subject was not understood. A witty lady says that since so many apartment houses have been put up on Back Bav, Boston, and so many single women are occupying them, what was formerly spoken of as “ the new made land " has come to be called “ the old maid territory.” The value of slaves in Morocco fluctuates like that of shares. An able-bodied negro was sold in March last for seven dollars. Moorish maidens are valued at from £l5 to £2O, according to their beauty, but a Moor would pay double that amount for a white girl A correspondent says “We sell twenty dozen eggs per week from fifty-four hens. I select out and keep a record of those laying the largest eggs for sitting purposes, for the purpose of raising a brown Leghorn, whose eggs, for size, shall equal that of most other fowls. My brown Leghorns laid about three-fourths of the eggs I got this winter, although they do not comprise quite onehalf in number of fowls, and it is my intention to keep only Leghorns in the future, as I find they bear confinement better than others, and lam very limited in room. My fowls are never out from under cover, having a roof over their heads the entire year. As I do not allow them outside in the cold and wet, they are always in good health, and consequently in good laying order. I spare no work that will conduce to the health and comfort of fowls. lam especially careful to feed regularly and enough, but not too much, and in as great variety as the season will admit of; careful to give air and clean rcosts, and continually battling against vi rmin, whether 1 can find traces of any or not.”