ODDS AND ENDS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4372, 11 February 1909, Page 2

ODDS AND ENDS.

The miners of Mnrpby’’s Find have struck solid (rock).

There are to be quite"a large number of weddings in aud. around Te Aroha between now and Easter.

Lady to little boy %vho is playing with his toy motor in the front gar ’en : Well, Laddie will you give me a drive in your motor ? Little boy, looking thoughtfully at toy motor, “ No, it’s not big enough y r et.”

A little girl, not a hundred miles away from Te Aroha, was left at home the other day and instructed to put on the piece of corned beef against the time her mother returned. Her mother, upon her return, found a cheerful fire blazing and the oven heated, and upon investigation discovered the corned beef comfortably roasting in the oven.

Shoolmaster to fresh little boy who entertains painful apprehensions. regarding the untried harshnesses of schoolmasters - Well, my’little man, and y’ou're a little new boy aren’t you ?”■ Fresh boy suddenly bursting into tear* at the wild suggestion : “ N-o I’m the same boy I was yesterday,”

It is evidently quite hopeless to imbue the mind of those “ Beyond New Zealand ” (as the city post offices have it) with an adequate idea of our general standard of enlightenment. A comic instance of this occurred the other day, when an'advance agent of the Ada Orossley Cry. walked into one of our leading Te Aroha business houses and asked the attendant quite seriously “ Have you ever heard of Ada Crossley ?” It reminds us of another bona fide instant of the supposed limitations of New Zealanders. A lady wril known to the writer was in England a few years ago. One day a person called at her house ou business. Upon being informed that Mrs So and So was in, he enquired “ can she speak English ?”

THE INFLUENCE OF MUSIC. There is something very wonderful in music. Words are wonderful enough, but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not of our thoughts as words do ; it speaks straight to our hearts, spirits, to the very core of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up ; it puts noble feelings into us, it melts us to tears, we know not how; it is language by itself, just as perfect in its way as speech, as ~1, words ; just as divine, just as blessed. Music has been called the speech of angels; I go further, and call -it the speech of God Himself. Charles Kingsley.

Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy has proved itself, times out of number, to be an absolutely safe and reliable remedy. Analysis has proved that it contains no narcotics, and experience has proved its unfailing efficacy in coughs, colds, croup, influenza, and even in warding off pneumonia. Dosesn’t your commonsense prompt you to purchase a bottle now and keep it in the house for cases of emergency ? If it dosesn’t it should. For sale by J. B. Johnson, Agent. —Ad. ■c ■ t*