MISCELLANEOUS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 490, 19 July 1890, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

It requires a deal of log-rolling to make saw-mill business pay. Silence makes but phew blunders, and those it can easily korrekt. It is surmised that the maiden name of Lot’s wife may have been Bellamy. One way tow ' define love iz that it makes us pheal phunny and act phoolish. In the Soup—“ Thank heaven, that new insect powder worked. The cockroaches about the house have come to grief at last,” said the landlady. “Yes,” assented old Stubbins, “ they’re in the 60up.” At a Wedding—As Bhe moved up the aisle an usher stopped her and said, “ Pardon me, aro you a member of the family ?” “ No,” she answered, sweetly, “ I am not, bub give me a good seat, for I might have been.”

“That’s a bar-gain,” as the barmaid observed when a fellow paid her a twoshilling piece for a penny, “ You are setting class against class,” as the philanthropist observed to the railway porter when he was making up a train. “ Copy of an old master,” as tho printer remarked when he had to decipher the some what legal handwriting of the Master of the Rolls.

“It did not know how to conduct itself,” as tho man said when he was shown the church tower that had been struck by lightning. Irate German (in a suburban smoking carriage, packed with passengers): “ Mine frent, I know mine feet vas meant to be valked on, but dot briviledgo pelongs to me.”

A chiropodist, who has kept a record for many years, warns ; mankind against falling in love with a pretty foot. It goes, as he asserts, in most cases' with a fitful temper, and he had never yet known a female thief who had anything but a pretty foot. The Newfoundland fishery disputes are becoming rather serious. A Bill has been introduced into the British House of Commons rendering adultery or desertion by the husband a cause for divorce.

A London cable says that a French man-of-war drove off thirty British vessels caking bait at Port-au-Port (Newfoundland), and seized and cub their nets. Dead men’s shoes never fit those who wait for them.

The natives of Woodlark Island (Southern Now Guinea) are very aggressive, and threaten bo kill all white men wlio come there. They believe the British are afraid to punish them for murders lately committed.

The late Sultan of Zanzibar imagined that he was a greater personage than any other on this earth, and the only man nob born to die. He was so sure of this that he had his plans laid for 2,000 years ahead. When he found that he was going to die he was so cut up about ib'th'at he hasteried his end by many days, and to get even with sometning or somebody lie had six of his court physicians.beheaded. - ; At the London wool-Bale3 v prices for merinos remain steady,- hut coarse crossbreds have a downward tendency.. Canterbury mdtton' is 4fd; otherwise the frozen meat market is unchanged.