Odds and Ends.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42792, 17 October 1905, Page 4

Odds and Ends.

First Loafer : Did you help at the fire last night ?-Secon Uoafpr a bit. I got out of the way of the fire engine. go your engagement with 'Jacky is broken off 1 exhibit the cloven hoof?”—“No, the cloven breath.” “ Don’t know, her ? Why, she lives in the same square with,.yp.n.’.— “Yea. But she’s not id the same ' circle,”. ' : ~c;a:u v^u‘* “ I grow tired of providing forth© inner man,” ■ > yrU . ' “And I grow tired of providing for the <>uter woman.” '; ; :o. Returned in Kind Some'witty author once advised men to ‘;avoid arguments with ladies, because m spinning yarns among silks and satins a man is sure to get wasted and twisted; and when a man is worsted and twisted he may consider himself wot hd up. _ ' .' V This retort might be matched. with the following crushing one that,a husband received from his wife the other d iy, through the medium of the public Press. He advertised that he, Thomas X —~would no .longer bo answerable for the debts incurred by his wife, who seems to have been a truly amiable creature, if onemay judge from the announcement which she published next day, in reply : ,v£ “ This is to notify that [, Klizab"th X ,am able to pay all my own debts now that j have got shut of Tommy, , “ His Proposal.—He : iWiU fisW marry me ? I have a bachelor undo who is worth a million.’ . ,r// ; She: ‘No; but you might introduce me to your uncle.’