NEWS IN BRIEF.
"The'iaan who' g'He¥ in when he is wroii"." said 1 the .street Orator, "is ia.wisc man; but he who in-'when Fhb is ••right is--" "Married!" said jkU'mcck voice in the crowd.
A Xt'u- England minister noticed that tin old lady always bowed her head when the name, of Satan was .mentioned. On his asking why she did this, she replied, "Well, politeness .'costs nothing,-and you never know."
. ''My sister Maggie is a very fortunate girl." ".Yes? Why?" "Duuno. ■But'she went to a party last night, and played-blindman's bluff all the evening. The gentlemen hunt around and Hud a girl, and : then they must either kiss her or-' give her a shilling." "Yes?" "Maggie came home with 30s and a "VVar Bond." . '.'..,
A.story by the Marquis Albert Theodoli, speaking for Italy at the American Luncheon Club in. London T-hc "King of Prussia" —the Kaiser — standing, .on a height and seeing the immense force of American- soldiers, ■exclaimed: ""vThat a great fleet it must ha ye taken.to bring all those men over the Atlantic!" "Xo; only one ship—the Lnsitania," was the answer.
"How-did you learn that Blinkers had stopped' into a fortune'" "Well, he used to be called queer, and now lie's spoken of as eccentric."
■ The 3liertes>t and surest way to live with honour in the world is to be in reality what we jvoiild-appear to bo; and it we observe, w.e shall fiml that all the human virtues strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of thenv :. --.' ■
Tito shipwrecked sailors were feeling very miserable on a desert island, pinched with' hunger aud cold. The one more wretched than the other said to his companion. '-'Can you pray. Bill?" - "No. "• "Can. you sing?" .''XpV' ' >'-YVell,'' said the first,. "let's have"something religious; lot's have a collection.?* *.*" .. ;: •>• j
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Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 21 March 1919, Page 4
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298NEWS IN BRIEF. Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 21 March 1919, Page 4
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