Miscellaneous

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 90, 5 February 1887, Page 6 (Supplement)

Miscellaneous

The Sultau of Turkey ftae 6000 wives. He don't dare flirt wifcfc any strange female for fear it may be-bos wife.

"Women can stand tight shoes, tight, gloves, and tight waists,, but they very properly draw the line at tight husbands.

Paris has a sensation in a publication of a work on the war of 1870, which portrays in a startling manner the French troops as a debased and brutal body of men, with besotted and vapouriiag commanders. A secret history is about, to appear, drawn from hitherto unpublished official documents*

Balbus — "Did jovt take an>y holidays this jme h Cams ?" Caius — "Tes, of coarse." Balbus — " How did you manage- your business while you were away?'' Caius— "Oh, I just took ray advertisement out of the papers until, I retursed,. so there was no busings- t». manage. Capital idea, wasn't it.

Mrs^ljangtry i& credited with atsnavp toagua< Being Mitroduced to a divorced society- lady site- was greeted thus : " Your name has grown quite* familiar to« me from, seeing it so often on the play Hills, Mr^Lan^tey." "Indeed!" smile* the Jeusey liily:,*; "I, too* rememben yours quite- ncell.. A divorce suit Hatakest one quite a&fajnou&as theatrical posters,, does.it not ?"

Mr JL H..Sha«r- > .ua» a letter- to the»New ' Zealand Times, ridicules the idea that the premier is a deep and intelligent student of political, economy,, and says :— "-The Premier would be.- more» correctly described as a political trimmer than anything els 9» I have had special opportunities, of, judging that gentleman's knowledge of political) economy, and I assert that nothing can be more superficial* di\Hettante,. and? smattering. He kjiows more- about what some people- caK bumbug.?' These utteijances. smack of a* ddsappoioied man.