TIT BITS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 53, 5 October 1878, Page 2

TIT BITS.

11 y An Old Gossip. If nil the dismal things on earth To sum I should begin, 1M look around and soon unearth The thing in “Dismal Jim. The Samoa “Government" ha s ceased the manufacture of sinuot until the Ist of December. The three-masted schooner. J. P. Jordan. from San Francisco, left this port on the 2nd instant for ilumbolt Pay. No passengers. Many a man could raise himself in public estimation if he would only use a rope. Job had troubles, but he cannot truthfully say that he was over called upon to do another man’s work. Mr. Bell, of the Samoa Hotel, bought a canoe from a Samoa native on the 2nd instant, and that night the native went and stole the canoe, probably to sell to some one else. “For ways that arc dark, and tricks that To the “Heathen Chinee" is accounted, But lor mean dealing, and consummate stealing,

Bv the Native ho is double discounted. 'The Philadelphia dog removes the upper lip from the small boy. Samoan dogs prefer a more solid basis. borne one asks, “Do fish sleep?” If tbev don’t, what are they doing in the 1 1 % cr'n bod ! It always pays to be polite. As a steamer was descending a river, being crowded with passengers, an old gentlo- ; man was unable to rind a seat. A nice young man noticing this, gave the old 1 gentleman his chair, and went forward. ' A few minutes afterwards tin boiler burst and the old gentleman was killed, while the polite young man escaped unhurt. The gay and festive native still lingers 'round the door-way and tries to borrow a “ solene."

Samson was an eminent tragedian in his dav. In his last act he brought down tho house.—Kxchange. Vos, and what was better yet, he put an end to tho fools who would have clacquel him and brought him out again. It costs over £4 in Apia for a hoy to steal six .shillings. Fast riding is still indulged in by the natives in Apia, much to the risk of the pedestrian's lives. The true amount a journey cost, Let every item show forth, The calculating mind i< lost, In that queer sign,—“ cVe."