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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 28, 9 January 1862, Page 5 (Supplement)

The girl who succeeds in winning the true love of a true man makes a lucky hit, and is herself a lucky miss, A steamboat passenger, missing his handkerchief, asked an Irishman if he had seen it, and insinuated a charge of theft. But afterwards finding his pocket companion in his hat, he began to apologise. “ Oh! dont be afther making any apology ; it was a mere mistake, and on both sides too. x ou took me for a thief, and I took you for a gintleman.” ° A country paper, in an obituary notice, speaks ot the deceased as being “ a most estimable young man and devout Christian until the day of his death.” Pity the young man had not died sooner, to save his reputation ! A military officer, one day, while reviewing hia company, happend to be thrown from his horse and, as he lay sprawling on the ground, said to a friend who ran to his assistance," “ I thought I " a “ m horsemanship, but I find I have fallp.n an'?' Two old friends met, not long since, after a separation of thirty-five years. “ Well, Tom,” says one, “ how has the world gone with you, old boy? Married yet ?”—“ Yes, and I’ve a family you can’t match ; seven boys and one girl.” I- can match it exactly,” was the reply, “ for I have seven girls and one boy.” The soldier’s great risk is that of becoming extinguished before he can become distinouished. When is a flock of sheep like our climate ? When ft is composed of. all weathers.