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Patea Mail, 18 April 1882, Page 3

Why is M’Carthy, the Irish M. P, like the newest .fashion ?—Because he’s just in (Justin). The three most inquisitive English, rivers, according to Cockneys— the Wye, the Wen, and the Ware, When you marry you fondly expect to see the end of all your troubles, but you can’t tell which end. A'little girl who was watching a sunset of crimson, orange• and purple said, “Is that the power and the glory ?” When a scandal is circulated concerning you, 1 falsely of “course, it is like daubing your coat with fuller’s earth, for when it is rubbed off the coat is all the cleaner for it. tr Can you steer the main-mast down the forecastle stairs ?” said a sea-captain to a new hand, “Yes, sir, I can if you will stand below and coil it up.” The captain didn’t catechise that man any more. . • , Women; are not cruel by nature. We never hear of one thoughtless enough to step on a mouse. A correspondent wants to know where the expression “ Let up comes from. We believe it comes from the fellow who isn’t" bn top in a "fight/ Compositors are almost always intelligent men, They-are- men of letters who literally pick up their knowledge as they go along. An exchange say s the difference between a hungry man and a glutton is: “One .longs to~eat, and the other eats too long.” The New York Produce Exchange has organised a glee club. They will probably sing “ ’Tis Wheat to be Remembered ” as an opening chorus, .followed by such selections as “ Eyes, and Shine,” “ Peas, be Still,” “ The Prairie Elpur,” and closing with a vigorous cadenza of Western oats.