VARIETIES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2293, 23 July 1880, Page 3

VARIETIES.

Dr. Andrews heard a burglar in bis house in Philadelphia, and had no pistol to shoot him with, so he inflated fapaper hag which happened to he a t hand, dashed upon the thief with a shout, and exploded the bag, which made a noise like a pistol shot. The man sank to the floor in abject terror and begged for mercy. Kcllyania.—“l’m hanged if I d o ,”as Ned Kelly said when asked to surrender.—lt was not thought that the pO- - would have had the Hart to Byrne the Kelleys.—Bather G-ibbey anointed Ned Kell}', but the police wanted to cannonise his brother. —‘Bulletin.’ Comparisons. A Sydney paper rather funnily deals with two colonial Governors. It says Sir Hercules likes horses, Lord Augustus likes fowls— Horsey Eobinson, Fowley Loftus. Ignorance.—An intending passenger to New Zealand was recently informed by a shipping clerk in London, of whom he was making enquiries, that there was no vessel goingjust then, but there was one on the berth for Australia, which would do as well, as fernf-boats run across every three hours. The young man who wants to get up with the sun must not sit up too late with the daughter. At a recent London wool sale, Mr H. Lee, a Canterbury squatter, obtained Is 6M per lb. for a lot of greasy merino wool.