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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 5, 17 September 1880, Page 3

Many a young lady who aspires tc fame via pencil, brush, and canvue, would become a "rising artist" at once if she would turn her attention to bread- making. " Quail on toast,*', was what he oHered. '^Quail on trust," was what the inn keeper called it some months afterward. An Indianian said to a young man who chaffed him upon his bald head : " Young man, whe. n uiy head gets as soft as yours I can raise hair to sell.' 1 " Will you name the bones of the head ?" said a teacher to one of his class. "I've got them all in my head, teacher, but I can't give 'em." The seal probably., jauts up _ with more insults and abuse than any other animal He 'is known the world over as a fuvbearing animal. When a thief snatches a watch and transfers it to a confederate, he does so merely to pass away time. " This thing has gonefar enough," yelled the amateur balloonist, as he frantically tu»ged at the valve ropes. An Knglish visitor at Peshawar sends home the following inscription copied by him from a tombstone in the English graveyard there cred to the memory of the Rev. Blank Blank, A.M. who spent seventeen years as a missionary among the Afghans, and' translated the Holy Writ into their language. He was shot by hie attendant. . " Well done, thou faithful servant!"