ODDS AND ENDS.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 152, 7 June 1879, Page 3

ODDS AND ENDS.

i Recently forwarding clerk in : Aberdeen scheduled to a steam company one package of empties as follows : " One empty hamper containing three empty cans." Probably at the last dreadful day, | when Gabriel sounds his trumpet, if he doesn't stop once or twice between the blasts, and shouts ' General ! General! Colonel, I say!" not more then two fifths of the men in American cemeteries will get up —Burlington Hawkeye. To live with our enemies as if they might one clay become our friends, and to "live with our friends as if they might become our enemies, is neither according to the nature ot hatred nor in ' accordance with the rules of friendship. It is not a moral, but really a political maxim. General Stirling, who rose from the ranks, established himself, on his retirement from the army, in his native town of Musselburgh. At a public dinner the toast of his health was proposed by one of his old acquaintances. " I remember the general," said the speaker, "when he was hurling barrow fu' of turnips.'' "If I had possessed your brains," interrupted the general, who disliked such personal allusions to his early life, " I would havg been hurling turnips yet." A contemporary says that the other clay a visitor to Dublin hired a car for an hour to drive round the Pheynix Park. No sooner was he seated, than the driver prooceedecl to warm his nag's ribs, and started off at about ten miles an hour. Ashe did not slacken his pace, the passanger asked the reason for such quick travelling " Faith," replied Paddy, " d'ye think I'd be all clay driving ye an hour ?"