ANOTHER ASSOCIATION

IT HAS been decided to form a branch of the Ulster Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Fermanagh.

The chief offenders in this respect are women.

I have seen an old lady, driving her donkey and cart, and – not getting the required speed of transit to market – she took out her hat pin and jabbed it in the donkey’s posterior end.

This was more than a pin prick.

THERE’S BEEF AND BEEF

Housewives will be puzzled when they read that in Lisnaskea, beef without bone is to be supplied to the Workhouse at less than 10d per pound.

I am not a butcher, but it would be interesting to know what part, minus the bone, is to be sold at this price.

This raises the question: If 10d be the price for the cheaper sides of a beast and returns a fair profit, what would be the just price for the better cuts?

Mr. Costello told the Board he had got the finest sirloin in Enniskillen for 1s 4d!

I wish I had the name of that establishment. It would create a boom and the police would be required to regulate the traffic outside this mysterious house, so great would be the rush of new customers.

A PUZZLE IN PRICING

THE discrepancies in prices are most puzzling.

One gentleman told me he had to pay 1s for 1lb of semolina in Enniskillen, and secured a few days later a quarter-stone of the same article in Fivemiletown for ... 1s 2d.

FOUR FIVERS’ WORTH

THE members of the Enniskillen Urban Council on Monday must have had their breath taken away, when they heard read out the £20 worth of advice as to the positive advisability of lighting Enniskillen by electricity.

Any person with an ounce of brains could have given just similar advice for 20p.

The ratepayers have to pay, and as the cost comes off a broad back, it matters little what the amount is.