STATISTICAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 221, 26 October 1878, Page 5

STATISTICAL.

Thisyouograaowaaastatislician, and, of couroe, a bore. He ran mad on the subject, end went ieto ail sorts of abetruae calculations. He was sitting on the front porch with his sweetness (he had found time to fall in iove), when he suddenly produced his notebook aud fcpgan ip write in it rapidly, with ardour, "He is writing a sonaot 10 me, tba darling," thought the maiden though her ideas were somewhat disarranged by tbe following strange question, while hh pencil placidly carased the tip of bis nose : " How mßny menls do you eat overy day ?' 11 Why, three, of course; but of all the QjjdesV'-fiuegtioos—" "Ne?er iriind. dear i 111 tell you all nboqt it in a moment;" and etill his pencil was rapidly atj work. At last, fondly clasping her Blender waiat, " Now, my darling, I've got it, aud if you wish to know how much has passed through t»}9* adorable little mouth in the luet Be ( venipp|i yeop I psa give you the §sact ffgureg.?.' l ) Go£J grtjQJcus ! Whst cao you mean ?' "Now ju:t lister)," Biyß he, "and you will hear exactly what you have b en ob'iied to absorb to msiouin those charms wbidi are to make the happiness of my life." if BuJ j. dfia'f want to hear." " Ab, yo"u ara surpjr|Befj, u% doubt j just, l|s|,Bi}j You are now seventeen yean o\A t so lf)8t in fifteen y^ars you have absorbed oxen $• w'yffl ft; efjep and lamhe, 1^ ; chicken', 327; duoks, 204; geta-\ 12 j takeys, 100; game of various kinds, 824; "ttsheH, 160; eggp, 3120; vegetabls (bunches), 700; fruit (baskeie), 003; flljeeseF, 173; bread, cake, &c. (in sacks .of S)ur-<, 4Q'; wine, ('bfcrrgle), |J; water (gallon'). ™9-'' >] ' ' f

At tli is .be maiden revolted, ntj..l junjpiDg up t?f ihimeil ; " J think you ar« Vtify irw^srljijsr,}. «P<j digneling beside, an,l I will not stay to listen 10 you," upon which she fljw into the house. Hi g&zjii after her witb surprise, and went off, saying lo himaeif : '' if ehe kept talking at itiat rate twelve b,gyra out of tweoiy-/our, har j iwa would if) twonly ypar» f iravc.l a Uiatsnee of |,333 12^ miles. ?> He wag incorrigible.