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Southland Times, Issue 656, 12 April 1867, Page 3

OaiiOXTl.atiwg- Risks. — " It will not do," says Sydney Smith, "to be always calculating risks, and adjusting nice chances. It did all very well before the Hood, when a man could consult his friends upon an intended publication for a hundred and fifty years; but at present a man waits, and doubts, and hesitates; and consults his brother, and his uncle, and his cousins, and particular friends, till one day he finds that he ia sixty-five years old — that he has lost so much time in consulting his first cousins and his particular friends, that he has no time left to follow then* advice." Sabah, Duchess of Marlborough, at a family meeting, drank the health of all the company, adding, " what a glorious sight it is to see such a number of branches nourishing from one root I" ; But observing Jack Spencer laugh, she insisted upon knowing what occasioned hia mirth, and promised to forgive him, be it what it would. " "Why, thon, madam," said he, " I wa9 thinking how much more the branches would flourish if the root were under ground." . ■ A iESSOS wno was recently celled into court for the purpose of proving the correctness of a doctor's biil, -was asked by the lawyer whether 11 the doctor did not make several visits after the patient was out of danger ?" " No," replied the witness, I considered the patient in danger as long as the doctor continued his visits." Something roa Papa.— Misa Williams was a beautiful blond, and she wanted to go to Scarborough—so she told her mother— to look for something very particular for her dear papa. <« And what io ife, pray," asked her mmotherr r M that you bo much vrish to find fof your dear papa P" "A SoiMn»law," wiw the gentle reply pjf the &ÜBtag maiden,