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Southland Times, Volume VII, Issue 539, 13 August 1866, Page 3

Ax elderly and good-natured spinster, on being rallied as to her " single blessedness," declared, " I never yet have lost heart, because. I have always kept in constant remembrance the fact that Naomi, the daughter of Enoch, was five hundred and eighty years old when she got married." Why is a lady of fashion like a successful sportsman ?— Because she lags the hair.

The Body Atenged. —By too much sitting still, the body becomes unhealthy, and soon the mind. This is Nature's law. She will never see her children wronged. If the mind, which rules the body, ever forgets itself so far as to trample upon its slave, the latter is never generous and amiable enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. Thus has many a monarch mind been dethroned. If some men's bodies were not straighter than their minds, they would be crooked enough to ride on their own backs. We fear that the flowering of romantic love in the bosom of the boy does not usually long survive the budding of the chin.