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Southland Times, Issue 981, 6 July 1868, Page 2

Being Ejitd. — Hsw desirable is the presence of one who has ever hanging on his lips, ready for utterance, a word of lore ! His entranoe into any place ia lite a bright glowing sunbeam, warming and reviling the hearts of aU. Eyes sparkle with joy when he approaches, and shadows flet «away. When death snatches one from our, house* hold, and when we gaze upon the rigid features of our departed dear one, then we will never regret the gentle words spoken, and the kind acts done, but we will regret every unkind sentence that has ever issued from our lips. Wbt Dats. — I think it must be Leigh Hunt that, in one of his letters, speaks of a day that would make no one but an umbrella-maker happy. During a series of such days, I Tentured to congratulate my umbrella-maker. . " Yes, that's all very well sir," he replied ; but then there's nothing whatever doing in parasols." -' Why does ?' necessity know no law ?" Because the necessitous hare no money to pay for it. To marriageable bachelors— "Beware of th» paint."