News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 218, 9 August 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

The farrier may be slow, but he ii shoer. What is airthe world to a man if his wife's a widow. ' Marriage makes men thoughtful. About half their time is spent m forming excuses. . . Bridegroom's motto (very free trans* lation). Veni I vidi J vici ! 1 I've been ! and goiie ! ! and done it! ! ! There is an East Indian lady m Paris who can talk m three languages. Fortunately she is not married. Doctor : " And how is your inotheranlaw to-day ?" Simpson ; "No improvement one way or the other." A thii teen-year-old mrj ptfcljed; tmt book of part-song^ the other, day and remarked ; ttPavt s_ongs and, part what else $•' ' , " ' • T ™ The best thing about a rainbow is that it does not stay out after dark. It has not the absurd habits of the crank comes. ■ '■"..'.'" "Tfes" said the captain, of mm^ steamship "we h^ a, v,erv expenawA passengers ate frightfully." " ' rt It is said that old Father Time is bald-headed so that he can't be taken by the forelock. He is the fellow who scythes fdr more worlds to conquer. |JA young composer has just written for a soprano, voice a beautiful sontr entitled "Would that I were Younf S T} m, 1 * h * 8 ll °? n B O'.wnch time pasted, The woman can't be found who W"i sing it. ™