News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 163, 13 February 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

' John Bright,' said a Brahmin visitor to England. ' eats his .breakfast like a lion.' He must be a pleasant chap. to entertain. Aunt Lindy— ' Fo' de life, o' t ma -chile, I can't 'magin why you're' bo little.* Wynnie— ' What a 'dicsln's question ! I was born little, data why." She was a sweetly inexperienced young housekeeper, aa one may gather from her remark when someone suggested that aha should purchase spring mattresses 'Yes * she replied, 'if they aw m season we'd better have some.' A pig would seem the-best subject for medicaj 6tudents to exp«nraent on, as h» could be killed first : and {cured afterwards. A mother-in-law.— The Qy ~m th« honeymoon! she who produces our joy and reduces it; the wet blanket of the matrimonal four-poster; leader of the opposition ; a legal imposition, Bret Harte's first poetic ' fragment ' commenced m these words— 'l sipped the nectar of her lips > I sipped, and hovered o'er her.' And the last two 'lines, were us follows— 'Her father's hoofs flashed on the scene. I'm wiser now, and sorer.' An English doctor avers that he has found fasting from four to eight days to bea specific cure for rheumatism. No, medicines are given under this treatment, but the patient is allowed water and lemonade iv moderation. Many years 'ago, when the IXuke of Gloucester was m comnaaod m iLaoca* shire, the Mayor and .Corporation of Lirer pool invjtpd, h.im, to. a, atjite ;d]nnw, m the course oi which th,e May or^ seeing that th,e p,uke only tppkoiie plate of the turtle soup^ cried out,' ' Do, pray^ your Boyal Highness, fill your royal stomach*, we've plenty uoreitij the -kitchen. V ■