VARIETIES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2397, 22 November 1880, Page 3

VARIETIES.

A gentleman named Doran, hung in Louisiana recently, remarked “ I forgive you all,” and the sheriff sprung the trap. It is time some villain was hung for making this remark. Something for Local Optionists.— Brown uttered a shriek of delight as lie finished the perusal of an article in the “Lancet” devoted to the sustaining and often even curative power of ‘ good spirits.” “Where,” he triumphantly asks, “ arc the teetotallers now?” The following epitaph on the Hall Ministry, from G,J. Oamaru, was sent too late, or it would have received the prize offered by the proprietors of the “New Zealand Public Opinion.” Xeunt Here buried be the ten per centum crow, O’ershadowed by oblivions darkest pall, The wingless dick, who never feather flew, Hard-wearing Oliver and empty Hall; The Witty cur, who pulled ihe wires with Bryce, And Harry—not the Aristides J ust— Here let them lie—slain by their own device, And 801 l a stone on their dishonoured dust. “ What a Woman Can Do ” is the title of an article in an exchange , but what we want to know is what a woman can’t do when she makes up her mind. Boston girls can bathe with perfect security from sharks. They merely put on a pair of blue spectasles and look intellectual, and the sharks light out for deep water.