SCISSORS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 198, 11 June 1878, Page 3

SCISSORS.

A number of " drovers and gentlemen in charge of travelling stock " petitioned the Mayor of Glen Innis, Victoria, to set apart a day of humiliation and prayer for rain. The mayor, Edward Jones, replied as follows :— " Gentlemen : I have duly received your requisition signed by gentlemen travelling with stock who obtain grass in the cheapest manner possible. I decline to hold a public meeting under my auspices, on the ground that it is great presumption to ask the sublime Creator to alter his organised arrangements of what he has created to suit the convenience, or rather profit, of squatters who have overstocked their runs.—E. Jones, Mayor of Glen Innis."

We don't want a Moore Township girl for a lung tester. At a singing school up there the other night a young man was bragging about the strength of his lungs, and invited a girl in the company to hit him in the breast. She said she was left handed, had been washing that day, and was tired, and didn't feel very active, biit at his earnest request she let go at him. When his friends went to pick him up he said he thought he would die easier lying down. He had lost all recollection of haying any lungs, but the young woman consoled him by admitting that she didn't hit him as hard as she might have done, because she rather liked him.— Eaton Free Prsss