MEMORY'S QUEER FREAKS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 350, 25 November 1879, Page 2

MEMORY'S QUEER FREAKS.

There fojjppe remarkable effect of our peculiar ciiinate that has probably struck everybody, and yet we have never Seen it referred to in print. It is the absence of any notable change in the season. The monotonous continuity,, of even sunshine insensibly nieiges into weefcs, and months into years, without the usual/suggestion of the lapse of time occurring elsewhere'

One shakes hands with a friend on the street-corner to-day, and next year meets him fresh from a trip around the world, and is rather surprised to find him in another suit of clothes, the pattern of the old being as fresh in his mind's eye as if he had seen him yesterday. The other day a Front street marehant and his wife were seated in a street car, when another gentleman stepped in. The moment he saw the first named party the latter said eagerly:—■ - " Because it cornea to the surface to blow. That's the answer, isn't it ?" "Yes," said the other, "but I didn't think you could guess it." " What did the gentleman mean ?" asked the merchant's mystified wife, after they had left the car. " Well, you see, down to the club the other night, I asked them all a conun-drum—first-rate thing too, —why is a whale ilike a water-lily?—and none of them .could guess it." ' •'Club I Why, you haven't belonged to a cliib fdT five years—not since we were married." "Haven't I? That's a tact. Now, let me see when it w,as I asked Brown that conund#um,'J —and by a careful compari- ! son of dates it was ascertained that Brown Had kept the answer fresh in his mind for exactly sis- years and five months. This story, is literally true, and will be Bent carefully .staffed to. any museum in the country on the receipt of postage.— §an Fr@msco l?ost.