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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2384, 6 November 1880, Page 4

The partly-civilised and imperfectly savage lias two curious traits (says yEgles) he is exigent as regards others and has a llorid and, sometimes, morbid imagination. Por example, Borak, the black boundary rider, when be got a letter he brought it to the store-keeper and said, “ Don’t you think that Tom might anyhow have signed his additional at the end ?” doubtless meaning initials. And I had once an honest lad from South Africa, who said he would like to be baptised with a Scriptural name. “ What name, Jack, would you like ?” said I. “ I think,” said honest Jack, “I would like to be christened Pontius Pilate.” A lecturer on chemistry lately discoursed in this fashion —“ To illustrate how elements that are perfectly harmless in themselves may become destructive bv combination, take the case of a gun and a small boy. What can be more harmless than each of these when alone by itself, or what can be more dangerous in combination ?” A Hopeful Uase.—Patient—“ Then, according to you, doctor, in order to live at all, I must give up all that makes life worth living ?” Doctor—‘l’m afraid so—at least for a few years.’ Patient—“ Perhaps you’d recommend me to marry ?” Doctor, a confirmed bachelor,—“ Oh no. Come, my dear fellow, it’s not quite so bad as all that, you know.” —Punch. In the melodrama of the future the relentless tyrant will shout, “ What ho ! without there! Bring forth the fiery untamed bicycle.” Climatic inlluenco on female beauty is singularly marked in New Zealand. In Auckland the pale, slender, delicate type predominates, and the stamp of beauty gets more robust as we journey Southward, until in Otago the sonsie ruddy two-hundred-pound lassie has it all her own "way. — “ Sydney Bulletin.” Some girls can work hard all day making a silk embroidered motto where the words “ Love one another” stand out in all shades and colors, and then take nearly the entire top off their little brother’s heap just because he wants to stay in the parlor while Adolphus is making his regular call.