ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 178, 13 November 1886, Page 7

ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.

Wonder if the .tea-serpent could awallow all the stories l.hab are told about him ? On a first glimp-e'of the sea : "Astonishing ! Who >\ ould have thought there could b as much wnter as that?" "True; and remember you only ccc what's on top " 11 If you can't keep awake," said apareon to one of his hearers, " when you aro drowsy, why don't you tako snuff?" "I thinfc," was tlie shrewd reply, "the snuff should be put into the sermon." " Habit "is hard to overcome If you take off the first letter it does change " abifc." If you take off another you have a " bit " left. If you take off another the whole of " it 5> remains. If you remove another it is not "t " totally used up. All of which goes to show that if you wish to get rid of a bad habit you mupt throw it oflr altogether. England, according to Chinese ideas, ib " a tribute-bearing nation of men without pig-tails, governed hy a lady with large- • feet." Miss Maud. Howo, in a letter to the Boston "Transcript," asks why it is that "the* IL'at instinct of a woman on arriving at a ' ' strange place is to go and buy somethinG: V y The question is, of course, unanswerable — as much co, > perhaps, as-thia question; *• Why is the first instinct of. every man on= r ""< arriving at a strange place to go and takQ omethine; »M» M