Notes and Comments.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 166, 22 June 1901, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

'Whea we start moaning in middle oi toe relief. with toothache, our wife gets up aSR walks over the frost; floor in of a muffler for our head or fiery concotion with which to the cavity in the offending she says it is to give us Just so. And when we get by old Time and go with bomH| back to the Charitable Aid BoaiflH or Old Man's Home, we are saidflß get relief. Just so. When shuffle off this mortal coil and fIE with a sweet smile on our face (this is-a sciap from a we are said to have found relfl| from the toils and worries of mortal existence. Again just But when a man from NejH Plymouth arrived in on Friday night and fell amofl| thieves, who appropriated fIH pocket-book containing twenty-fiflH lovely notes he is said to have " relieved" of bis money. manner of man is this. Had |H| " done something" and come money dishonestly and was thdHj fore giad to see the back of it. was it the fact that he was pdjH tically stranded in Wellington tl|B| made him feel so relieved. bably neither. He would likely put his hand in bis discover his loss and then, guess, he would "relieve" l|H feedings with columns of sooty unprintable matters. But . like these are trivial. W e must U in Rome as the Romans do and England as the English, thereftflß we muat bow to the inevitable aj9[ accept v.Lboui question inconsistencies of the great Engli^H The bank-clerk in modern ranks on a level with tli|H the milk and water curate, bank he does not tiflH clerk, chance to eiect Christianity in the way wKk curate is often permitted to do. of the pen is supposed to revel vH the possession of the" highest (flj collars and the gussiest of clothioJH When unoccupied with the weaptflH that is mightier than the sword wM is alleged to be his pastime to rooflj through the parks olad in an eri9 glass and a hooked cane and aim in aim with another of genus, ogle the girls and muriaaH " Doncher know, deah boy." in A aimate know that this is wM trick of tbe funniest, but 'church is only just discovering Tuesday's Press says that «jH inoident which caused a excitement happened at tteifl| Brighton on Sunday afternoon. JH man was driving a horse with knees, „when a well-know basjH clerk objected to his treatment 4H the animal, and refused to let tljH man proceed. The driver thereupdH got out of the eart and an affair dfl fisticuffs, in which he fared somijH what the worse of the two, to|H place. At this stage, howevej9| a policeman intervened, and, gettfl i jg into the cart, drcva )> $B town with the man inrotbargsH

greatly to the amusement of the onlookers. Nobly done, bankie, if this endearing familiarity is permitted. You are making for that grand object in the dim distance—the amelioration of the condition of the bank desk. Soon, soon there -will be another change, and the clerk of fiction will revel in the possession of the muscle of a prize fighter. Wherefore it behoves us to give three and a tiger for ihe latest reformer. Hip, hip, hooray.