TIT BITS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 55, 19 October 1878, Page 2

TIT BITS.

By An Old Gossip. You may talk about your lovely maid, Am! sing, aud sigh, aud coo; But the " liolls" of our little town. Beat the "Maid of U-po-lu." The German war-ship "Ariadne" practised target shooting on the 17th instant, and did some good shooting—knocking the target into splithcrecus. The reports fro ra her guns reverberated among the hil'.s and dales around Apia. 'iVanted :—A few more accordions snd concertinas with bad colds, in Matafele. On the mornings of the 19th and 20th you can go out before daylight and gather in the Palolo. The.*o is a poet called '• Augttstinian," Who of himself has a good opinion ; There is " A. N. 11." who lays great stress, And tries to shield that " A. S. S." Whilo 'mong this bright array of names, WVvo "Sprightly Puss," and "Dismal James." One dentist can stop a woman's tooth, but tw vnty can't stop her jaw. The British Consul evidently docs not believo )'n tho co-operative plan. The Newspaper man can re-construct tho old aphorism thus : The pencil called tho Fahcr Is more j latent than the sabre. The m phire, hallowed cup of sky afar molts in its wine, heaped pearls of clouds and gives- down paptuous draughts. In fact it rai as. Tho world owes all its enorgy and refinement to luxuries. Create tho want of luxuries iin a people, and you advance their civilization. Digging roots for breakfast and going naked for clothes, as Josh Billings says, "is the virteuous innosenso ov a lazv savage." "Every cat has a fur coat, and overy dog pant*. Ills loving mother was putting on her slipper again, when he brushed away the tears and affectionately caressing tho place that smarted worse, asked between his sobs: M-mama d-do you know why I-I'm like little Mary? She looked at him cross-ways without speaking, but he answered it. B-becauso 1 h-hud a littlo lam'. A lover who had '• West" to make a homo for his " Birdio" wroto to her : "I've got the finest quarter section of land, 160 acres, I ovoi put my foot on." " Birdie" wrote back : " Suppose yon buy knottier quarter section, John, so wo can havo a lawn around your foot." John made a home, but Birdie was never mirtrcn of it. " A wa p ' nrnl contain Gfl< a thouGaud coll." Ves, aud the groatott of

,:: b(a til downob the nest umlur . . [on thai all these watpj have gone to tin aea-aidi onomewhew on a visit A single wasp loafing in (be back kitchen will give the settler a warm reception. Bomobody is disgusted becaute thru liquor law was not established by the Consuls. "Suum Unique" i* wad.