TIT BITS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 56, 26 October 1878, Page 2

TIT BITS.

• Bv An Ui.i» (iossn*. Now “ Sir.im ('uhpie ” j fits, rut and come again. Ami from this column of “ Til Bits,” WVll watch you murder men— With tin* pen. Lord Beaeonslield rails Clladstone “a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with t!i»• exuberances of liis own verbosity.” Verbosity is good. The early native catches the “ Pololo worm. A man Mew down the chimney of li ,s kerosene lamp every night for live lon years and never had an accident. Th explosion which burned the shirt off his hack ami tiio hair oil his hea l occurred on the occasion of his first blow in the sixth year. Some people are never lucky. Xo one has been able to explain why It is that a man feels that he is more iikely to get up in time in the morning by keeping Ins watch half-an-hour fast. What' sin a name. Siium t 'nhpie ”by any other name would smell as sweet. With'pleading eyes she looked up into his face, from the plant, and sail" “Call mo your darling again.” .But he refused as there were witnesses around. Apia can now 1 toast of steam communication with the outside world, thanks to the enterprise of Messrs. CodeliToy and Sun. Quite an excitement in San Francisco over mining stocks. The denizens therein lean say “What i-my loss is somebody's gain." FalstalT asks “ what’s honour.” T/’t one woman >it behind another woman i>i church, and she’ll oil what's on her in less than two minutes. Mrs. Wood, of Maslhope, Maine, put a three-pound can of gun powder into the stove by mistake; she found out the mistake. There was an auction on Wednesday* nt which Mr. A 1 void officiated with his usual distinguished ability. •* We have frequently heard a Milldam. — Yonkers Qazette. So havo wo and seen a cro-eus. Wo have also scon a pumpkin holler, a mat-lock, and at election time some canvas-sing.—Boston, Taper. Yes, and we have seen a reefrock, a fence-rail, a rope-walk, a brookrun, and more wonderful still, we’ve seen a tree bark. Perhaps we ought to add also, that we've seen a negro bark—bis shins. The best time for re-potting plants is when the old pots give out.