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Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 589, 26 October 1869, Page 4

I A clever young bride says that gentlemen talk nonsense before ladies, because they think the ladies like it ; for it makes them laugh. If the ladies would always look very grave when the gentlemen talk ridiculous nonsense, and smile when they talk sense, gentlemen might improve. But ladies often begin to yawn when gentlemen attempt sense ; and so in self-defence the gentlemen are compelled to adhere to the line of conversation which brightens up the ladies' faces most. The fact is, the ladies are difficult to please with sense ; and they want so much poetry, sentimentality, and eye-white, what very few gentlemen are able to supply them. A young Albany girl, after receiving the attentions of a young man several months, abruptly asked him when ho intended to marry. The young man then said he was not on the marry. (She then broke a teapot filled with scalding water over his head.