News m a Nutshell.
'My brethren j 1 sai.l Swift m a sermon," "there are three sorts of pride-^-of birth, of riches, and of talents. I "shaft not .now speak of the latter, "hone of you, beiug liable to that abominable vice." V • ' Where are the boys of my youth ? I assure you this not a conandrum: v S&me are amongst you here— some m America — some m jail. Hence arises a most touching question : — " Where rire too girls of my youth ? . . Some, are married — Some would like to be. Mr Buskin says, 'What was beautiful r ... yesterday is beautiful to-day.' Thefe are 'exceptions, S{r Buskin, A. young man who took his girl to the : opera one night recently thought she"' was the personification of beauty. Next* day he made an early call aud found-" her attired m a faded calico dresß, dila- '■ pidated [slippers, and her own hair ;,jand ; —well — Lord iNorbury was remarkable for theavy sentences m the days when p&tty : thefts were punished capitally .^AA ',*;/ dinner Parsons sat opposite some Baited beef. *Is that h ung beef.' S?r)Parsons ?' 'Not yet. ray Lord ,'" was" 1W 'caufetio reply, ' you have not tried it.'
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 223, 16 August 1884, Page 2
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194News in a Nutshell. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 223, 16 August 1884, Page 2
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