Odds and Ends.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42798, 28 October 1905, Page 4

Odds and Ends.

Effective Irony.—Like irony is often more argument, and.- many convey tioas and ideas in a terse manner, as when one says, alvvaye judge bj T appearance man who wears a diamond pm really wealthy. ■■ - * '■ '* * .A-: A gentleman, it was once said, never i dlicts pain. On which a wit temarks : L'his is hard on the dentists. *. » • Not a bad story is told of an aged clergyman who met a man loudly de* claiming against foreign - missions. .\ Why, aoked the objector, doesn’t the- Jt Church, look after the heathen at *1 home ? We do, said the clergyman, -• ouietlv and gave the man a tract. ■* * * ■ ’ .. ' So far as you Baw, said council to a , , witness. she* was doing her ordinary . household duty ? I should say so-—she was talking, was the ironical reply. He never had but one genuine case •n his life, said a lawyer of a rival, ... ad that was when he prosecuted his A studies. . t * * - Some lawyers have had curious ■ xperiences of ironical' wills, There is he not unfamiliar case of the French merchant who left a handsome legacy to a lady who had refused to marry him twenty years before in .gratitude .. for her kindness in not'taking him at “ his word. * • * . \ t : . . • * ! , • ; : There is a good deal of pointed satire' i n such ironical afacefcia© as the followiog : We a-e reminded that the m inia for adulteration is co great that you - omuotbay a'quart of rand and be ure that it is not half sugar. - --I