The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-02-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

RECOVERY 'OP A SPENDTIORIPT.—A nobleman whose son was a bard drinker, and had been cutting down all the trees upon his estate, enquired of Charles Townshend, who had just retnrned from a visit to him, " Well, Charles, how does my graceless dog of a sou go on ?" " Why, I should think, my lord," said Charles, " he is on the recovery, as I left him drinking the woods." Generally a love qsarrel, like the name of a certain big firearms, ends in a buss. A little girl being asked by her grandfather where c?ttou grew, replied—" In old gentlemen's ears." . . _  - A politician who was kicked down a flight of stairs the other day, said he felt as though his seat had been contested. a A small actor may be ever so jealous of the leading man, yet at the same time he will be found ready to take hie part at short notice.  When John Monigrip's wife asks for a dollar or two for current demands he smiles sweetly as he says, Truelove, darling, seeks no change." • King Theebaw has just spent over £l,OOO on cheval glasses for the ladies of his household. That is, at all events, a way of spending money which will bear reflection. " Mamma," said Henry Thomas, a bright little fellow," •• mamma, have my toes got eyes 7" "No, my darling; why do you ask such a foolish question?" "Because my bot's asledp." Why do cats resemble a certain class of politicians ?-13ecause they are so apt to bison the fence.  " Whither away ?" we enquired of a friend. "Wither away yourself, and see how you like it I" was the brutal rejoinder. The wisest man we ever knew was a Jew who remarked—" I tell you vat it ish, young man, I buys my egsberionce vresh erry day."  " Your son, madam, persists in doing nothing,' said the director. "Then," replied the woman, by no means disconcerted, "you should give him a prize for perseverance."  " We must agitate !" exclaimed an earnnt plitical speaker—" we must agitate, or we shall perish !" And then he agitated it gently with a spoon, and pretty soon it perished—all but the sugar.  MR SPURGEON ON MODERN  POLIOT  The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon preached on Sunday for the first time in the ivietropolitan Tabernacle, London, which was densely crowded. Before the sermon the rev, gentleman, who appears to be completely restored to health, thanked his congregation for their indulgence, and for maintaining daring his prolonged absence the various organisations of the ohnroh in unimpaired efficiency. Though, fortunately, everything did not deper,d upon the presence of the pastor, he hoped he would now have a long spell of . active and useful service amongst them. He then delivered a powerful and eloquent discourse on the sovereign prerogative of God. In the course of his remarks he contrasted this sovereignty with that of earthly monarchs, and contended that that was so perfect and absolute that eventually all nations and people must submit to the divine decrees. At the same time God never violated the rights of the meanest of His creatures. That was not the fashion with the rulers of the world in those days. They spoke abotit the vulgar crowd, the ignoble herd; they unscrupulously overthrew kingdoms and made the world crimson with blood and murder. England was following that dangerous policy. Her rulers were making bloody wars and oppressing nations, and they encouraged and consoled themselves with the reflection—" We are a great people, and, by jingo, do what we like, all will come right in the end." But they should remember that pride went before a fall. The proudest and the haughtiest of men an nations would yet be brought low, and God's chastisements, when they did come, would be terrible even 'unto destruction.