Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1908-01-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1908.  England is the only country whe‘re mein of Parliarnunt are not only unpaid, but have no special rights or privileges.  be re  -- : o :  One test- for distinguishing diamonds from glass and paste is to touch them with the tongue. The diamond faels much colder.  ••••• : 0 :  A.hl be kind—life hath no secret For our happiness like this; Kindly hearts ar e seldom sad ones, Blessing ever bringeth bliss.—Hobbins.  o : It requires the expenditure of eight time the energy to go upstairs that is required for the same distance on the level.  -: 0 : -- Lives of grant men all remind us We cn !Take our lives stfolime; And departing leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. Longfellow.  -: 0 :  The horse hos a smaller stomach proportionately than any other animal, because the horse was created for speed. Had he the ruminating stomach of the ox he would be quite unfitted for the labour which he now performs.  * 0 0  .  ................., • • •  When a youth was fined for thef t at Altrineham it was stated that he went to the golf links with a dog trained to pia up golf balls and bring them to him.  : o :  For injuries sustained through slipping on a piece of mutton chop trimming outside a butcher's shop, a man was awarded £lO damages at Marylebone County Court.  -: 0 : Charged with attempted suicide Eastbourne, Samuel Snow was stated to have thrown himself several times into a rough sea, which repeatedly wcathed him back.  —: o :  In a Leeds case it was stated that hor...ies were bought fair £2 and sold at A.ntwerp for £7 or £B, air at a profit of 200 per cent. His HODOUT :To mako sausages, I suppose.  : o  Rretrtfond Magistrate (fining a man for using bad language): Why not get book and pick out extraordinary words which no one understands, and which do not ocene within the meaning of Sad language? It's a fine way of letting off steam—and cheaper than your metixad.  —: o :  The romance of the sea is never deaci. But of all its strange harrksts perhaps the most uncanny is that of the derelict and abandoned ships that rock on its restless bosom silent and waterlogged, containing, it may be, cargoes and treasure worti2 htmdreds of thousands of dollars.  -: 0 :  Thr.re are parts of Spain where the hat is un. known, except in pictures. Tim men, when they need a covering, tie up their heeds, atmi the women use flowers.  -: 0 :•-•  Librarians in many • parts or London agree that the public taste for the reading of fiction is showing a very decided falling off, and that the popularity oi works of travel, hietoTy, and biography is correspondingly increasing.  - : 0 : And the night shall be filled with artusio, And the CARE'S that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Araix,., And as 3ileritly steals away.--1:-...ngfe11ow.  : 0 :  Robert Browning once found himself at dinner at a greet English house, sitting next to a lady who was connected with the tugboat aristocracy. She was very graciously inclined, and did her utmost to make conversation "Are you not a poet?" she finial?, asked. "Well," aLid Browning, "lw.-crAil% arn some. times kind enough to Rey that. I a.m." "Oh, please don't mind my having mentioned it," the Duohess hastened to aary, with the kindest of smiles. You know Byres and Tennyson and others were poets."  0  14* '7l  • ;.• • • c