CHIPS AND SLICES

Temuka Leader, Issue 269, 22 June 1880, Page 2

CHIPS AND SLICES

Trucfitt, the great London hairdresser and perfumer, following the fashion of the time, has turned his business into a limited com pane, presided over by a lord and with L 75,000 capita 1 . There are more than 3000 subscribers on the list of bis “Toilet U’ub,” and the vet urns for baircutting are 1.7000 a year. The North British Railway have laid aside L 120,000 to cover the loss by theTay Bridge disaster. St. Paul first advises women/to submit themstlvcs to their husbands and, then counsels men to love their wivessince it was fighting t at women >shouhl first have their lesson given to them because it is hardest to be learned and therefore they have the more need to cod it. Sub Jove.—Henri Marger tells of a mm who, on being asked where he was nov living named a very fashionable avenue an I quieted bis friends astonishno nt by adding, “ Third tree r n the lefthand side.” To understand the world is wiser than to condemn it. To study the world is better than to slum it. To use the world is nobler than to abuse it. To make the world better and happier is the noblest work of man or worn in. The English have presented wives with concertinas. Isandula is to be avenged. Oh, unhappy King ! The propri dors of the Graphic, who recentl y commissioned a number of leading artists to express in paint their respective ideas of fendnine beauty, hayfe bad the collection on view in London. Tht Princess of Wales, who has viewed 1 the piclnres, gives hen vote in favor of Sir Frederick 1 Leighton’s “ Selene —» dark beauty, exquisitely lovely. “ Papa, whit makes somes printers 1 nlway- drink so hard ?” said wise little Julir.nic, th.' v.thri 1 cvrrdng. “ I thought they always drank easy enough,” growled the chi' man, as he looked up from the evening paper. A house with a wife is often warm enough ? a house with a wife and her mother,is rather warmer than any spot on the globe ; a house with two mothers-in-law is so excessively hot that it can he likened to no place on earth, but one must a lower for a simile. “Bangs” is Go'*d.—ln a recent American story ‘t is said of the heroine that she “curved her scarlet lips and raised her eyebrows clear into her bangs.” On enquiry it has Ken found that “bangs” is tbe euphonious and poetic name by which American gbh designate their “ fringes.’’ Josh Billings in r. zooligical mom nt writes r—The peculiarity of a fly is that he returns to the same spot ; but it is characteristic of a misquito that he returns to anothe spot. Thus he differs from the leopard, which doer not change its spots. T-.is >8 an important fact in natural history.