MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 709, 19 November 1875, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

—o— Once a -week—a first class Home publication—has the following, which a contemporary very properly styles “a hint worth taking.”—A wealthy Loudon merchant is reported as having said, ‘ I always feel happy when I am advertising, for then I know that waking or sle-ping, 1 have a strong, though silent orator working for me —one who never tires, never sleeps, never makes mistakes, and who is certain to address the dealers from whom, if at all, my trade mast come.’, There once stopped at a tavern a party of wits. When the feast was over, one of the members called in the hostess. ‘Madam,’he said, ‘I am going to give you a lesson in astronomy. Have you not heard of the great Platonic year, when everything must return to its former condition ? Know then, that in two thousand years 'vo shall be here again. Will you give u«

oi'Cilit till then ? The hostess however hail her reply. ‘,l am perfectly willing,’ she retortod ; ‘ but it is just two thousand years since you were here before, and you left without paying j settle the old score, and 1 will trust you on the new. Enforced civility—Bowing to circumstances. What holds all the snuff in the world ? No one nose. What is it we all frcquentlp say we will <’o, and no one has ever yet done ’—Stop a minute. dV hy is a printing press like the forbidden fruit? Becausa from it springs the knowledge of good and evil. In the interchange of lead anl iron compliments between soldiers’, it is thought more hissed to gbe than to receive. They are fools who persist in being quite miserable because they cannot be quite happy. W'aa’e of wealth i< sometimes retrieved ; waste of health, seldom ; but waste of time, never.