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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 135, 19 May 1884, Page 2

A New York burglar left a cardin the house he had entered, wishing the people a happy new year, and begging pardon for not calling earlier.

Scene—The river Ohio ; tow boatmen loq. “ That was an awful winter, I tell you. The river was froze tight at Cincinnati, and the thermometer went down to twenty degrees below Cairo.” “ Below what ?” “ Below Cairo, you lubberhead I You see, when it reezes at Cairo, it must bo pretty cold ; so they say so many degrees below Cairo.” No, they don’t ; you’ve got the wrong word. It’s so many degrees below Nero. I don’t know what it means; but that’s what they say when it’s dreadful cold.”

There is a good story just now current of two Liberal peers in the West of England, one of whom is a capital master of foxhounds, while the other is not great in the sporting lino. Quite recently the incidents of the chase brought the field of sportsmen into the park of the latter, when they rode through his lordship's kitchen-garden and cabbages rather roughly. Naturally annoyed, he wrote to his brother peer and Liberal to complain of the damage rather wantonly done to him, when the noble M. F. H. replied expressing his regret at what had happened, but adding that the fact was, there were a lot of Radicals out that day, and he could not restrain them.