I All knowledge begins in doubt and { much of it ends there. I The fox carries the Vwd news, wfailc I the turtle ciawls with tbe good. 1 Familiarity is notfriendshiy ; papph i end their all frolics iv a quarrel. Hypocrisy and cunning travel to gether, and can't get very far separately. Civility is the lowest price we pty for tilings and penance the highest. ' If mankind had capacity equal to its malice we should have no use for the deviL The hardest man to shake from tbe ladder is the one who moan is ooe rang at the time. The Irish Episcopal Temperance Society has now 622 branches, with 90,000 members. Fame follows ns to tbe grave, scratches a hasty epitaph on oar tomb** stone, and then hurries away for the uext man. The Auckland corresponlent of the Ctago Ihtihf Times writes:— The "unemployed" are still keeping op the agitation for Government relief works under the famous labor agitator, Garrard. The Government met the emergency promptly by applying •* the stone^ breaking test," which proved so effectual in the case of tto«» City Council getting rid of a number of idlers about the corporation offices. Work and tools were provided at the Mount Eden quarries, the rates offered being only 10 per cent ander the ruling prices, bat so far not a mm has accepted the offer. It was decided at a public meeting that "it was beneath their dignity, manhood, and Self respect to accept stone- breaking," and work in the streets of tbe city was desired instead. Oue would have thought tliat this hyper sensitiveness ss regards one form of honest labour would also have preveu ted them from appealing to puplic charity at all; but to vary the old phase, " they cannot break stones, but to beg for Government relief works they are not ashamed." 8o»ne of the men regularly employed in the quarries are making their 7s a day, aud the rates of pay offered to the unemployed, while enabling there to keep die" wolf from the door, still left them the incentive to look out for work more congenial to tbeir tastes and feelings, and prevented any distur bance of the labour market. 