SMALL NEWS ITEMS.

Hunger and thirst scarcely kill any, but gluttony and drink kill a great many.

The wise for cure on exercise depend;  God never never made His work for man to mend.

Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.

The marriage of MR. CHARLES ADEANS and MISS WYNDHAM, daughter of HON. PERCY WYNDHAM, is fixed to take place early in July.

Three privates of the 2nd Battalion of the Welsh Regiment were sentenced at Cork on Friday to twelve months' hard labour for burglary at a jeweller's establishment.

The perennial jokes about the proof-reader seem to be on the decline since one of these much-abused geniuses shot and killed an editor in New Zealand for "cussing" him.  Then he got more satisfaction by mangling the obituary and making circumstances alter cases ' read ' "circus horses at the races."

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