CLIPPINGS.

South Canterbury Times, Volume XV, Issue 2070, 10 November 1879, Page 3

CLIPPINGS.

' A votmgWllon going to read prayers at a viUagam|the West ,of England bf6nnds6meW%dty , the surplice. “J#her this surphce! said he to think the derilisin it ” Amen, astonished, waited till the parson had got?it on, and then answered . I think as how-he is zur.” , 1 11 m .fell* us ’‘tthevsemces are ™ gomgto to the dogs.” Can this he the reason they are getting rid of the cats? ■- ■Auhtj Tabitha;; :Tell your : mamma,. Rosie I said you were a very good girl for bringing the letter round so careT lallwiEoSe,: Sfe's Aunt Tabitha, and I’ll tell her I didn’t ask you fora shilling, because she told me not to, Aunt Tabitha. , _ x . ' , (At the Friendly Zulu Reception, St. James’s Hall) one : he say ? .Interpreter: He ' ■ ’is having yon .the very highest. Zulu cbmputnent. , Flushing Fair One ■ v (flattered an delighted) Indeed . Interpreter : Yes. He says your beauty is such that, were you only of Jus color ; would he worth three eows,

(Blushing Pair One retires,, hardly so •flatteredpr delighted.| ;; ... The sun .never goes down/on the Queen’s dominions; “ No,” Mr Gilbert •is reported to hare* said, /‘ Heaven is afraid to trust an Englishman in the dark.” A- _ It is said that rents continue to rise in Paris, and that proprietors arp becoming daily more'a bsurd in the Restrictions they put on their tenants. Some will not allow a dog to be kept; others will not permit any pet ivhatsover; and 'some even will not allow children to he in the house. A clever individual has just managed, however, to overcome this last objection. He had seen an apartment he liked, and, well knowing that the proprietor objected to children, he said nothing of the existence: of his only child, .a boy of two, years of age, but simply had the lease made out in the infant’s name. When ho came with liis family to take possession, at the ’sight of the baby the proprietor flew into a .rage and objected most strongly “Pardon me,” replied the astute diplomatist, “ hut* it is my child and not myself who has hired the apartments. You have made no objection to his asking his parents to stay with him, and so here we are?” The proprietor had te grin and bear it, for he had no legal ground of complaint. ; As a sign of the remarkable popularity enjoyed,:by-the English comic opera, H.M.S., Pinafore ” at Now York, writes a correspondent, the catchwords from its dialogue arc occasionally introduced in the most unexpected of places. The other day, in a New York police court, the magistrate, on the point of sentencing a prisoner, asked him if ever he had been convicted before, and received-for reply an , emphatic ‘ Never! ’. ‘ What never ,?’ questioned the magistrate ; on which there was such a general titter in court that he felt it to add! “If any one says ‘ Hardly ever,’ I shall commit him for contempt.”