The Mule's Parentage.
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.
"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.
"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.