Clippings from the Comics

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 24 October 1891, Page 3

Clippings from the Comics

(From Moonshine.) It is reported that the meeting at Bisloy, this year, will prove a loss to the N.R.A. "of £2,000. The range does not draw properly. Madame Patti will shortly open her bijou theatre. Of course, the place will bijoudiciously done, and when the Patti is opened perhaps the birds will begin to sing. (From Punch.) The Height of Impropriety. — Miss Grundison, jun. : There goes Lucy Holroyd.^ill alone in a boat with young Srv^son as usual ! So imprudent of' them I Her Elder Sister: Yes, how shocking if they were upset and drowned — without a chaperon, you know. ;■".. (From Judy.) Cleav Bowled. — Young Incorrigible (in the presence of witnesses) : Hullo, Tightpurse, you don't happen to have brought out a fiver with you, do you ? Old Tightpurse (before the same): Certainly not, sir. What's more, if I had, I shouldn't lend it to you. — Young Incorrigible (chuckling) Oh it isn't that ; but I've just picked up a pocket-book with your card and a five-pound note in it. Well, here's the card ; I'll keep the fiver. The Brighton Belle.— Fellow : i the way the gals dress nowadays reminds one of those Johnnies in Ivanhoe's time — Richard Cceur de Lion, you know- Middle Ages— Wearing a mail shirt— What ? „ (From Funny Folks) A Scratch Team. — " A New Zealand Lady Footballers' team has been formed."- Wondering Gentleman (to player): Why, Tonikyns, what are you up to ? Going to blow up a wasp's nest, or gone off your chump ? — Tomkyns : Oh no ; but we are going to play a matph against a lady team. The ladies insist upon the bootmufflers for protection against knocks, and we adopt the fencingmusks for protection from scratches.