News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 67, 18 February 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

Why is milk like the treadmill T~1&---cause it streogth.<raa the culyes. . : r Some "men 'are so lacking 'm hospital*t ity that they .will rtot even- entertain »a U i"?^ a»nno r tsay.;of the.- egotist that ttfeipj is"nb speculation in' h^a i I'a. .' i "" " ' : ' : ! Would a "law against tight lacing be> inimical to the freedom of contraots ? The man ; who was! hemmed m by & crown has been troubled with a stitch m -hiß side ever since. c' ' i • •'.' -cVI In a game, of cards a good dealxleperrib on goad playiog^but good playing d^peods on a deal. - : ■ , ■■.■■<■■•••' > '-.'^ •'(•!>■! If, a man .. .cannot cut, the grass m iront of his hou.se he, ought.tp.be up mp.Wr^ ... The man who, was picked ~ouj^ ofi*, seaside resbrt wa« caught by the under -toe. _.., .\;;.\ v ,,-j,, ; , V; , It is very unlucky to have thirteen at a tabla — particularly .when there is only enough to satisfy -t ho appetite of ten. Many . §„ woman who ,<Joes npfc, know even the inultiplicatioii can 'figure' m society.' ; " ! '' ' iX A~bauk«r at Moline, 111., has /beefiHe* frauded by .a confidential bJerk Jl named Waters, ,whom he, brad befriended m his extremity. Now he feels' -that ft« cast his bread on that particular Waters m vain. VT ' ": r r 'i TTHOL ',Dan,' B *'d ,i a four-ye^ryo^dr.torii* brother, 'give* m» sixpence (q bujfa monkey.' 'We haVe one in '^io hmse already,' sa»d his ! brother; « : wiu£ J ftr f; it f Dan P' 'It's you/ was -the #^lyj f Wen, Dan, give me eixpenct to buy nuts fur the monkey.', The brother! could -not teaTst .this appeal. , : ■ < „ Wr:: . :i t , r , u ; Ilir> 'I meant. to hare told you of |tljftt : hp^ said a man to .bis . friend^ l^ai stumbled into a. pit full of 'water somedays since* 'No matter iibw, ricTmatUr nciw,' snid the other,' blowing 'the triVttf <an«si water out of his mouth ; ' I've found it. OUt/-- '"' ■.'.•'t'j-' 1 .:- <:-. ' ; JJi-'-J'Ji/S A common brfck ' if ' very dryV > will abf. sorb a quart of water. v; Ta» jjerfeci "brick, of the human vhrioty, J h'oweter, alfhough, he is always dry, wouldn't absorb a quart of water io a year's drinking, Heitm^ia. seen the superiority of mind over matter. At ft church sociable ,'at 'Qbshen, -lVto.^ Miss De Land has been voted the prettiest woman m the place, and Miss' .Day the ne*t handsomest^ The ; proceedings .^ight^axe been lerrainated by Binging thebymn :. • There's ft De X,amdihat ; is fai^cthan Day.'