MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 775, 23 February 1877, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Happy thought.—Name for a new newspaper (to be ou the breakfast table every day)— The Morning Appetiser.—Punch. Why is a Red Indian like a waterman ? Because he feathers his shall. | What vote the Manager of a Theatre always has. The “ casting vote. A stingy husband threw all the blame of the lawlessness of his children in company by saying his wife always “gives th;ru their own way.” —“ Poor things,” was her prompt -reply; “ it's all I have to givo them.” It is a mooted question whether persons who attempt to destroy themselves are of sound minds ; but there is no doubt that the Parisians who leap into the river are in-Seim. “ Why do the swallows build in my chimney? “ said Sqnibohs to Quilp. Quilp gave it up. “ The swallows build in my chimney,” remarked Squihobs, “because they have a teuleucy to my grate ” (migrate). A Lady asked a minister if she might pay attention to dress and fashion without being proud?—“ Madam,” replied the minister, “ whenever you see the tail of a fox out of a hole you may be sure the fox is there also." Quaint Epitaph.—The following quaint epitaph ou husband and wife is to be seen in one of the Parisian cemeteries ; “lam anxiously expecting you. A.D. 1527” “ Here I am. A.I). 1507.” So the good woman was forty years making up her min i to follow her husband. A bad debt. --The owing of a grudge. “I do not say,” remarked Mrs Brown, that Jones is a thief; but 1 do say that if his farm joined mine I would not try to keep sheep.” We quite agree with him.—A correspondent says that “ a wealthy Frenchman in Mexico committed suicide, and declined to give any reason for the rash act. “ We like the Frenchman’s spirit, and feel as he does. Wait till we commit suicide, and then ask for a reason if you dare. Once we arc dead we mean to stand on our rights. No man, shall have reasons from our coid corpus. San Francisco Nows Letter. ; A youth asserting in the most positive i manner that society was rapidly gaining in morality, was asked to slate the grounds of i his belief, when he said, “ 1 have personal knowledge of three horrmreii umhreliae hav- > ing been returned to their owners.” ; Valuable Discuvlrv for tub Hair.— j If your hair is turning grey or white, or i falling oif, use the Mexican Hair llenewer,” j for it wi I ponitiedy restore in every ca.ec Greg , or While hair to its original color, wi; bout i leaving the disagreeable smell of most “ Restorers.” Ic makes the hair charm ugly • | beautiful, as well as promoting the growth r of the hair on bald spots, where the g'ands 1 are not decayed. Ask your Chemist for “The Mexican’ Hair Reskweb," pro- '• pared by Hkmrt 0. Gallup, 4011, Oxford J i Street, London, and sold by Chemists r.ud f Poifumors everywhere, at Us CJ per lloltlr