A very brilliant piano-player can work 4 Home, Sweet Home/ so artistically that in the bang and confusion of the playing it can not be distinguished from ‘Moses in Egypt,’ A Japanese student of English, being re< | uired to write a treatise upon the domestic animal, handed in the following :— 4 The cat is a small cattle. When ho sees a rat he is not rat—ional.’
A wealthy manufacturer of Connecticut having built an elegant mansion and wishing to take a second wife, said to the architect :— ‘ Which agrees best with bricks and brown stone, a brunette or a blonde V
P-'ofeesor— 4 Can you multiply together concrete numbers V The class are uncertain. Professor— 4 What will he the product of live apples multiplied by six potatoes V Pupil (triumphantly)— 4 H ash !
Published by Edward Houghtox, at the office of the 4 Patea County Mail/ Carlyle, Xew 2 e aiaud,
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Patea Mail, 9 October 1880, Page 6 (Supplement)
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