ODDS AND ENDS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue II, 1 June 1880, Page 3

ODDS AND ENDS.

+ A St Louis girl burst into tears at the sight of her own shoes. If there hadu't been such a sight of it she wouldn't have wepc. » No woman should ever give a plump " No " to an offer of marriage. Hold on to even a poor one and use it for bait. There are some men who so dislike their fellow- beings that they'll bring up their children to be music teachers. It is difficult to understand why a wife never asks her husband " if the doors are all locked " until he is snugly covered up in bed. A New Haven wife hns petitioned for separation on the strong and satisfactory ground that her husband " hasn't got any siHe about him." A Boston paper defies any living man to take an old-fashioned flail and hit a rat with it. Aye ! We'd like to see any man hit any-body himself with it. Eighteen or twenty base ballplayers will make a professional visit to Australia next season. Eighteen oi twenty are not many, but let us ren* der hearty thanks. — Albany Journal. Full many a rose is born to blush unseen, and waste its fragrance on the desert air ; full many a nip is ta'en behind the screen, and clove: and coffee too; aro eaten there. 'Mrs we learn from the Ontario Countj (Georgia) Journal, A rich Scotchman at lha point oJ d?ath,Baid to his pastor : "Do yoi that if I left £10,000 to the IJweebyterian Church my soul woulc be saved ?" " I can't promise yoi anything," answered the old man after a second thought, •• but in worth trying " A little religion is a dangerous thing. That was well illustrated i« the case of the fire-eating Virginian who, while returning from a camp meeting, held out his hand to an oli enemy, and exclaimed — " Give m< your hanfl, Saunders ; I've got religion, and I feel mean enough t< shake hands with a dog. " An exchange tells of a young lad^ who, in writing to a confidentia friend, stated that he was not en gaged, but that she saw a cloui ft bove the horizon about as large a a man's hand.

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