VARIETIES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2398, 23 November 1880, Page 3

VARIETIES.

A gentleman named Doran, huug 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 he 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, “ are the teetotallers now p” 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 crew, O’ershadowed by oblivions darkest pall, The wingless dick, who never feather dew, Hard-wearing Oliver and empty Hall; The Witty cur, who pulled the wires with Bryce, And Harry—not the Aristides Just — 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 anil look intellectual, and the sharks light out for deep water.