ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 367, 27 January 1880, Page 2

ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

(Collated from our Exchanges.)

She threw a stick of wood at the old hen and killed two of the little chickens. Natural result of a woman throwing at anything ; she always hits something else.

A witty writer has observed with truth that every man is, in a sense, three different men. In the first place, he is the man he thinks himself to be ; in the second place, he is the man other persons think him to be ; and, finally, he is the man that he really is.

The season is at hand when a whole family will carry their dinner three or four miles into the wood, and sit clown among the bugs and ants to eat it. They call it a picnic.

Vermont newspapers tell of a Burlington woman who, when her husband came home drunk, waited until he went to sleep, then took his only pair of pants from him and made them over into a pair for their twelve year-old boy, working nearly allnight to finish them. The husband awoke about the middle of the forenoon, ready to cat breakfast and start out for another drunk, but when last seen was wrapped in an old skirt, and had promised to join the reformed men's club.

The most powerful of ail beauty is that reveals itself after sympathy, and not before it.

A Horse, no matter how vicious and obstinate he may be when attempts are made to shoe him, can be rendered quiet and manageable dy making him. inspire during the operation a few grains of the etherial oil of parsley dropped on a handkerchief. A large number of trials of this substance has been made with the most troublesome and violent animals, and in every case with perfect success.