Miscellaneous Extracts

North Otago Times, Volume I, Issue 4, 21 April 1864, Page 7

Miscellaneous Extracts

Enoy.- At an eveening pa rty.

In any years s ince, at Lady fer-

s e y's, every one was praising the

Duke of-, who had just come m

and who had attained his

majority . There was a perfect cho-

rus of admiration, to thi s effect: —

"Every thing is m his favouors-he has

good looks, conside ra ble abilities,

and a thousand a year",

Rogers who had been carefully ex -

amining the " young ruler", listen

Ed to thes e Enconiums for some

time m silen cc, and at last remark-

Ed with an air of exultation, and

m his most venemous manner,

“Thank God, he has got bad teeth”!

Recollections and anecdotes, by

Captain R.H. Gronow.

Women require more sleep

than men, and farmers less than

those engaged m any other occu-

pation. Editors, reporters, printers,

and telegraph operators, need no

sleep at all, Lawyers can sleep as

much as they choose, and keep out of

mischief.

The five H’s— Five of the

sweetest words m the English lan-

guage begin with H:—Heart,

hope, home, happiness and

heaven, Heart is a home—place,

and home is a heart-place: and

that man is sadly mistaken

who would exchange the happi-

ness of home for any thing less than

heaven.

“Sammy, my boy, what are

the beeches of trust?” said a

father to his smartest son.

“What a funny question, pa”!

“Can’t you answer it, Sammy?”

“Yes, pa, but I don’t like to”, “what a

silly boy; come out with it, my son”,

“Well, pa, your Sunday trousers

are breeches of trust, 'cause you

got ’em on tick’.”

Sociality.—What would be-

come of our sociality if we never

visited people we speak ill of: we

should live, like Egyptian hermits,

m crowded solitude.

“Will you take some grapes,

Monsieur?” asked a gentleman

of a Frenchman. “No, sare”, he re-

plied,” I don’t swallow my wine

m it shape of pills’!

In Nature’s Temple—A young

couple were married on the 26th May

at the Falls of Niagara. Upon Lv-

nar Island, m the recess of the glen,

by the green margin of the rapids,

they took their indissoluble vows,

and by the Methodist minister

were made one with words of cere-

-mony and prayer hardly audibly

amid the thunders of the cataract

American Paper

A new way of dispersing a mob

has been discovered, said to super-

sede the necessity of a military

force. It is to pass round a countri-

bution box.

The following is a literal copy of a

letter of excuse forwarded by a jury-

man to the court of Lucin's Bench:

“Sir,—as I am a Tauriner and

any lengwitch Donich I am not ettal

compitint of the Enghish Lengwick to be a jewry man and my cautious do

not allow me give my opinion

on what I do not understand – an

answer well oblight”

Books and Stationery.