News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 155, 29 May 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

' Have you seen my dear love?' sings Ella Wheeler. We have indeed, and h© was eating ice Cream with another girl. There now I Don't bother us any more. When you wish to appear beautiful and attractive consult your best lad 7 friend, show her all your dresses and ask her to select the one you should wear and then choose another. Ella Wheeler, m a recent poem says I 'I love with a force that burns to hate.' You won't do for us, Ella. We want to be loved with a love that will keep nic© and quiet at home when we are too busy to attend to it. The Texas Sittings sneeringly remarks that 'if you want your grave dug m Memphis they make you pay cash m advance. There is no harm m that. Once allow a man to try on his grave* and he will never come back to pay for it. ' I met X on the avenue this afternoon 'with his bride. They have just returned from their wedding tour.' ' Where are they going to live ?' < I don't know. He told me he had been house-hunting since yesterday morning, and intended to take a flat.' 'Ah ! indeed !he has decided to follow his wife's example.' When a person writes a poem to kill time, he may be pretty sure time will have its revenge and kill the poem. 1 Now, Johnny, what happened after the angel with the fiery sword drova Adam and Eve out of Jthe. Garden of Edeu ? ' They had to eat bread to make them sweat.'