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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 86, 19 April 1870, Page 3

Lowe dresses are not likely to go ont until the present Chancellor of the Exchequer does. A fashionable party is now called Daughtcroultural Show.

What metre is best for a Valentine?— Meet her by moonlight alone. Men Who Have Mined—Most of the population of Nevada.

A man in Manchester has got so deep into debt that not one of his creditors has been able to see" him for months.

Philosophers say that shutting the eyes mates the sense of hearing more acute, A wag suggests that this accounts for the many closed eyes that are seen in church every Sunday. "Mother, did you hear sissy swear?" "No, my dear, what did sho sayr"' "Why she said she wasn't going to wear her darned stockings to church on Sunday." Notice to the Trustees—ln the Department of Natural History at the British Museum there is a serious deficiency. There are nests of all sorts and sizes, birds' nests, wasps' nests, &c. ; but not a single specimen of a mare's nest. This is a great disapointment to country visitors. A Miss Lucy advertises in a Mississippi paper that she " is of good birth and education, and is willing to mary an editor, believing herseli able to support one." Successful Men.—The men I have seen succeed ttirat in life have always been cheerful and hop^d men, who went about their business wjth a smile on their face, and took the changw and chances of their mortal life like men facing rough and smooth alike «ts it ame, and so fomid the truth of the old proverb, that " Good times, and bad times, and all times pass oYcr."—lGngsley. A New Kind o_- Bobbery.—We hear that a young lady has had the whole of her hair cut off in broad daylight in Westbourne Grove, one of the most crowded streets in London. The theft was so cleverly performed that she was quite unconscious of it until her roturn home, although her bonnetstring was cut through and her net divided into three piecos,., It is said that tho practice is becoming common, more especially in omnibuses.