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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 78, 25 May 1880, Page 3

It is hard to : understand why ladies ore so particular to have the I latest fancy in stockings. Appropriate Verses.— The dairymaid's ditty, " Tis butter little faded flower." The butcher, " Meat me by moonlight alone." — „ New York commoreial Advertiser " The fugitive convict's, " Flee; as. a birid ib the mountains." " The imprisoned wnvict's, "Tyrant, soon i'll burst these' chains."— "Norriston Herald.' The Black Hills miner's, "Silver threads among the gold." T,he ) cook's, "Hold the fork, fry hams coming."— Yonker's Gazette. On being asked what he thought of a certain noble lord, who always appears clothed in the height of fashion, however extravagant that fashion may be, a person of the highest birth is reported to have said, "To my mind, he dresees 'not wisely but too swell.' " When is a parson like a postman ?< — When his delivery pleases you. Pays a French critic : " I like a girl befoio she gets womanish,. .and a woman before ehe gets girlish." ] A little boy was sent to dry atowel before the nursery fire. " Mamma, is it done when it is brown ?" he presently jn MVUid* ft ft 1 1 dl l ueen spetten or as^' having one foot in the grave," a cruel commentator^ re*. marks that there must be a big jtibjei out there somewhere. if ' i. '

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