ODDS AND ENDS.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 37, 16 February 1884, Page 5

ODDS AND ENDS.

Gold-prospecting still goes on in Canterbury. How sweet to recline in teo laps(e) of age. — Say aged about eighteen. The worst organ-grinder.— A hollow tooth j that plays the peuce. In Prussia there is a clause in the liquor law against credit at bars. A critical friend remarked to Mrs Siddons that applause was necessary to actors, as it j gavo them confidence. "'More," she replied, "it gives us breath." i A young Russian Jew has invented an electrical watch, without spring, and . having only two wheels. A bad second — A Quaker in a duel. One-half the manufacturing in San Francisco is done by Chinese. Uneasy lies the head where the mosquito reigns. The best thing to take before singingbreath. Why is a kiss like some sermons ?—Because there are two heads and an application. When is a schoolboy like a postage stamp? When he is licked and put in a corner to stick to his letters. London has 62 miles of "pub " frontages. Messrs Bryce and Holleston's visit North is in connection with Rotorua township. A cut-away jacket is the proper costume for an elopement. An actress is sometimes supported by her husband — in the play. The Woods and Forest Department of South Australia mean to plant out 450,000 trees this season. "Potato," according to English rules, might be spelled "ghoughphtheighbteau," and that's no small potatoes. What word is it that by adding two letters to it you would make it shorter ?— Short (er). ♦ John Margetts has been re-arrested at Wellington on the charge of obtaining money by false pretences. At Wallsend coal mine, Westport, all the work is in future to be let out by tender. "That wall is plumb," said a mason to his foreman, " but that fellow who put in the water and gas pipes is plumber." At the last Lord Mayor's show in London, a Socialist procession with a black flag inscribed "Starvation " was prevented by the police from approaching Guildhall during the banquet. It was an apple that made Adam tell, and the same fruit made William Tell. Yes ; and it was an apple brought pain into the world, and now Payne is having his revenge on the apples. "If you don't give me a penny," said a young hopeful to his mamma, "I know a boy that's got the measles, and I'll go and catch 'em." Doubtless "Wisdom is justified of her children ;" but the appointment of Mr Wisdom (who lately had a bout at fisticuffs with Mr Buchanan) as leader of the Opposition in the Sydney Assembly, does not seem a very justifiable proceeding. Bro. Walter Bishop (the Bishop of the Druids) has gone to Melbourne to represent the New Zealand lodges at the Grand Lodge of Druids.