News m a Nutshell.
Cultured parlor-maid (to Buttons) : " You vulgar boy ! You should never aay ' ax,' you should say ' harsk !'" " What is a lake ?" asked the teacher. A bright little Irish boy raised his hand. « Well, Mikey, what is it ?" " Sure it's a hole ia the kittle, mum." Mr Ruskin says that a couple should court seven yeare. Either Mr Buskiq has no grown-up daughters, or coal is yerj' much cheaper m England than it is here. " Boys, can you tell me anything remarkable m the life of Moses ?" asked a Sabbath-school teacher. "Yes, gir" shouted one of the boys, uhe broke all the commandments at once." "Mamma," said a little up-town boy, as he left his bed and crawled into hers the other night. " I can go to sleep m your bed, I know I can j but I have slept my bed all up." G. A. Sala says that he had a cook once who, on entering on her duties, was asked whether she understood the use of a salamander. " Perfectly well '• she replied ; " it is to kill rats with.' 1 There is one good thing about leap year, and that is, that leap-year jokes can only be used once m four years. Some of the jokes are so feeble now that they are hardly expected to Burvive the summer,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 193, 12 July 1884, Page 2
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222News in a Nutshell. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 193, 12 July 1884, Page 2
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