The Best Thing Yet Said of the 22.
Mr. Gibson Bowles, at the City blockade meeting, on the
Coalition: "The Government did not swop horses. They made an
alliance with another animal; and the result is a mule without
pride of ancestry or hope of posterity."--_Evening News._
Incidentally the unkindest thing that has yet been said of the Unionists
who joined the late Ministry.
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"There were further indications at the meeting of the Salop
County Council on Saturday of the Council's desire to economise
where possible. Dr. McCarthy drew attention to figures given in
the report of the County Medical Officer of Health showing a
diminution in the birth-rate of the county for the quarter to
the extent of 14 per cent."
_Wellington Journal._
Economy of any kind is praiseworthy, but we think they might have begun
with one of the other rates.
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"The domestic income of a more or less typical three-roomed
cottage near the docks is at present £17 per week. Among the
recent purchases of the family, a pianoforte, costing £50, may
be enumerated, although no one in the house can play a note.
This looks more wasteful than the common outlay on gramophones,
which at least give pleasure. The idea of sound investment is
slow in penetration among the suddenly affluent in wages."
_Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury._
We dislike carping, but surely a piano is always a sound investment.
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