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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 305, 11 September 1865, Page 3

Lrstyj.v, seeing a parcel lying on the table in the entrance-hall to Drury-'ane Theatre, one side of which, from, its having travelled to town by the eide of some game, was smeared with blood, observed, “ That parcel contains a manuscript tragedy.” And on being asked why, replied, “ Because the fifth act is peeping out at one corner of it.” One day, just as an English officer had arrived at Vienna, the Empress, knowing that he had seen a certain princess celebrated for her beauty, asked him it was really true that she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. “ I thought so yesterday,” he replied. Mrs Livingstone, mother of Dr Livingstone, the African traveller, died at Bnrnbank Bo ad, Hameiton, Lanarkshire, on the IBth June, aged 82 years. Cockhet Zoo&OGT.— Precocious young Lady: "Law, ma, here’s a beagle.” Mamma (reproachfully): “A beagle! Oh, you ignorant girl! Vy, it’s a howl!” Beeper of the menagerie (respectfully: “Axes parding, mum, ’tis an awk, A widowee., having taken another wife, was, nevertheless, always paying some penegyric to the memory of his late spouse in the presence of his present one, who one day added; with great feeling. “ Believe me, my dear, nobody regrets her loss more that I do.” “You say,” said the Judge to a German who vfas tried for bigamy, the “ clergyman who married you to your first wife authorised you to -take- sixteen ? What do you mean by that” »«sr|‘Tell,” said Hans, “he told me dat I*should hare four potter, four Terser, four richer, and four -hooter—and io our country four dimes four make sixteen.”