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Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 597, 13 November 1869, Page 3

Companions in arms — Twin babies I A senior Wrangler— A wife older than yourself. If you want to know whether a tree is hollow or not, axe it. Pretty excuso for a wife : beater The treasure which we value most we hide, What are the most unsociable things in creation ?— Milestones, for you never see two together. An American contemporary says it will publish original poetry "on the same terms as advertisements." An excellent cure for dyspepsia is to give a hungry dog a piece of meat, and chase him till he drops it. One of the recent "notions" in Chicago ia a white hearse, which ia described as "attractive, not to say inviting." What is the difference between a young girl and an old hat ?— Merely a difference of time — one has feeling and the other has felt. Mrs Partington is anxious to know, if the oompass has a needle and thirty-two points, now long will it take a woman with such a needle to make a shirt. Domestic jars, when cancelled, are. half reconciled, "iis a double task to stop the breach at home and men's mouths abroad. A New Zealand chief maintained that he had got a title to his land, because he had eaten the former owner. "Where shall 1 put this so as to be sure of seeing it to-morrow ?" inquired Mary Jane of her brother Charles. "On the looking glass/ was her brother's reply.