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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 320, 28 November 1888, Page 3

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Sui tabus dower fora widow — A widower. What prevents the running river running away ? It's tMeup. An exchange publishes a poem entitled,. ' Smile ■when you can.' We do. Edgar Fawoetb wishes that ' man could make love like a bird.' He does. Edgar, he does ; hue a goose. A lady, joking abouo her nose, said, 'I had nothing to do in shaping it. It was a 'birthday present." Douglas Jeirold once said to a very thin man, 4 Sir, you are like a pin, but without the head «v* the point.' 'No pains will be spared,' as the quack said when sawing off a poor fellow's leg to cure him oi rheumatism.; ' Marriage is promotion,' says George Elliott. In the eye of such a reasoner, a man with his third wife would doubtless nass for a brigadier gene r al. A Yankee has just taught ducks to swim in hob water, and with such success that' they laid boiled egs*?. Who says this is "riot an age of improvement? ' ' *„' They were having a snarl, and she asked him if fchere was anything in the past he would like to recall. He heartlessly answered, ' Yes, the day you. first refused me.' In the Boob Store — I want a pair of 'boots for my boy. Yessir. Which do you want 1 , — the kind that looks pretty and goes' "to pieces in a week, or the ugly kind that? lasts a fortnight ? * I put outside my window a large box full; of mould, and sowed ib with seed. What do you think came up ? Wheat; barley," or oats? No, a policeman, who ordered* me'to removo ifc. ''*„' How to s'urap it. — An orator who was'iit great demand in political campaigns,' being asked by an admirer tbe secret of his sue 1 * cess, replied, ' When I have facts, I' give 'em facts ; but when I haven't I yell and"* saw the air.'