HUMOROUS.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 194, 12 March 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)

HUMOROUS.

Curiously enough, when autumn comes the result is autumn leavoe. The fellow who put the thing in a nutshell found it cracked a day or two after" wftrda. Gentility is said to be eating meat with a silver fork when the butcher has not been paid. '" I look down upin you, sir." Yes you seem to be in a condition to look downf r the sky, and feel upward for the ground. ( California papers tell of a head of cabbage weighing "forty psunds." It was two feet through. " Nonchalant " means that peculiarly indifferent look which is put on by men " who never pay " when dunned for money. It should be written none shell oict. Loat, from an Antiquarian's Collection. — The key to the pantry of the " Castle-in-the-oir." Also a piece of om broidery executed by the <l Sphinx of Egypt " with " Cleopatra's needle." A hotel in the I?le of Wight, much frequented by clergymen, is kept by a man appropriately named Saint. The liquors in , the establishment are unusually bad. ' I say, Mick, what sort of potatoes are those you are plantiug ?" •' Raw ones, to be sure ; your honor wouldn't be thinking I would plant boiled ones " A house painter in Bvorfcon painted a door bo exactly in imitation of oak that last year it put forth a quantity of leaves* and grew an excellent crop of acorns. »