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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2572, 5 January 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

Tiikiih is a grocer so moan that lie has been seen to catch flies and hold tiiem up by their hind legs and look in tlio cracks of their feet to see if they have been stealing any of liis sugar. Till-; Indian harvest is fairly good, though there will probably be scarcity in certain Ho»ded districts in Eastern .bengal. The ryots have secured a good jute harvest, but tiiey are combining to maintain high rates. India suffers terribly fiom over-trading ana excessive speculation. Thk phonograph, it is pointed out, will have many homo advantages. A girl can take it up to her room and in her loneliness, when her sweetheart is away, she can hear all the sweet things that he lias said to lier. Conversations can be handed down from generation to generation, And when the husbani and wife quarrel, the wife will say : "My dear old mother warned me that yon were 110 good. .Listen to what she said." And she will pull out the phonograph, and a wheezy voice will be hoard : " Y'ou'll find him out my dear. All men are bad. There isn't a good man livingexcept your father sometimes."