A LITERARY AND MUSICAL CURIOSITY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 66, 19 April 1881, Page 3

A LITERARY AND MUSICAL CURIOSITY.

lt is well known that the letter c is used mnre than any other letter in the English alphabet. Each of the following verses cantains every letter of the alphabet except the letter c : — <# A jovial B wain should not complain . Qf any buxom fair f :, Who mocks his pain and thinks it gain To quiz his awkward air. 11 Quixotic h<.yß, who look for joya, Quixotic hazards run ; A lass annoys with trivial toys, Opposing man for fun L . " A jovial Bwain may rack his brain, And tax his fancy's might ; • • To aaiz is vain;;for 'tis most plain / that what I say is right. " f "How did yon like tha hymnsj" he asfcea^tiii ' citjr crnpin as they left th* church. '■-'■ '' One'-oMbem w«8 just splendid," r«plied she. "Ah ! which one?" — "The one in the new pew, with black curly, h.air, and such killing black eyeo." / " "I told her I'd never smoke .another cigar," he said softly, "and I won't. A pipe's enough for me," as he gracefully drew a match over the leg of his trousers. The theory of a few years ago, that the -gyrth we live on is a thin solid shell, restying on an intfrion liquid, is considered ' untenable. Physicists declare the globe •olid.' • i^gialator. ■<.**'< What, sir ! Yon take mp for one who' can, be bribed? You insult my sense of honor. But, in case I was snob a man, how muck would you give ?" "Herd, you young rascal, .give an account of you rtelf. Where have you been ?" — v-After tfte girls, father."— "Did yon j}W know me to do so when I was a boy ?" —No, air; but mother did." He who owns a fine gold collar-button, ■with a^jjoaottd >Bt^in-.th»~««ifttr«ir «*^wtryß COTSTrteiTit cooler and more comfortable; to without' a rteck tie. ' :