HUMOROUS.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 220, 17 September 1887, Page 3

HUMOROUS.

Every diva mast take her chants. Who serves us through fire and water ?—? — 1 The cook. When is a boat like a heap of snow ?—? — When it id a-diift. A photographer is sometimes like a conundrum. Of course we mean when he's a poser. A big proboscis is indicative of intelligence. In other words, the bigger ifc is the more a man nose. The pnet who wrote, " Man wants bub little here below," should try again. Man want& all he can get. We read that man was originally made upright, buc nowadays a great many men seem to be made up wrong. " I think I catch your drift," as tho man remarked when the avalanche fell from the eaves far above him. Speaking ot the " manufacture of rings," said a young lady," oan anyone tell me who made the welkin ring ?" When you see a counterfeit coin on the pavement, always pick it up. You are liable to arrest if you try to pass it. A man never realises how little his word is worth till he receives a black eye and attempts to explain how he came by it. Society is composed of two great classes — those who have more appetite than dinner, and those who have more dinner than appetite. There is a man in this town so economical that ho stops his clock when he goes to bedto save the wear and tear of the machinery. A little baby is an easy thing to love ; but a big baby is a hard thing to love, says a veteran observer, especially if you have married her, 11 Mr High water, how is it I find no cream on your milk ?" Milkman : '• Well, mum I expect the cows are holding it back for strawberry time."