News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 252, 20 September 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

"There is one thing about babies," said a recent traveller, "they neve? change. We have girls of the period, men of the world ; but the baby is the : same self possessed,, fearless, laughing, ;- voracious little heathen m all Hges and m all countries.-' '.-. An auld Kirk djvine -was one day walking aloqg one of {he streets of the, capital of the Qrcades, when he -met a well-known tinker. *• Well,.4°h, u < ?*R you tiay \he $Lrt4'| Prayer' yet? «;, •! Qch, man, said «Joh^, "every man the his trade. Can you mak' a tin pail 2*' A gentleman said to one of his friends *• that for some years his wife had per- ' sisted m saying that sho was only twenty years old. " Mine is more reasonable," , replied his friend.;" I have succeeded m making her enter her thirties, but I have failed to make her come put of them? 1 . • "I never can enjoy poetry when I'm *' cooking," said an old lady who dropped >! m oil us recently. "But when I. step . : out fo feed the hogs iiud hist myself i&n/ < > the ietioe, and, throw my aoijl infcj a4ew ■■;.:■■ lines of * Cap'u $ enks,! it does aee^ as if this airth-was niade to live. on fiftejr all. 1 .? „ . ; In a prayer meeting m Westfield, Mass., a brother arose and said—"! want to hear sung that beautiful hymn, s "Split Doors." A ripple "of daughter was suppressed by a sister who str'uck^V " Gates Ajar." "That's it ! that* it ! '» shouted the brother, a§ ho sat' down to . enjoy the melody.