FUN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 341, 15 January 1881, Page 2

FUN.

The next world’s fair : The angels. Woman’s Province : The Isle of Man. What is the greatest want of the age ! Want of funds. Some fellow has written an essay entitled “How to get married without a master.” But a man, nine cases out of ten, gets a “ masler ” as aoon as he gets married. Whatever else may be said against the Chinese, no one can say that he ever saw one with his hair parted in the middle. Said a physician to a soldier, “ How do you feel when you have killed a mm professionally 1” “Oh,” said the man, “I don’t mind it; but, Doctor, how do you feel under the same circumstances!" A gentleman advertised for a clerk who could bear confinement, and who had been some years in his last place. He was answered by a person who had been some years in Pentridge. Why can a young lady who was too ■ weak to stand up during prayer-time, ia . church dauceall night without tired _ This is a conundrum. *• Borrowin’’ gaol for!” asked a prison visitor of a negro. “For borrowin’ money sab. “ Why they don’t put men in g a °l for borrowing money !” “Yes, but see, I had to knock him down free or four times before he’d lend it to me. ” ‘'No, ,ma " said she, “ Charles oa®— never be anj’thing to me again. S®" came out this spring in his last years overcoat, and, oh ma, if it only matche my new dress, I wouldn’t cure so muci, jj' but it doesn’t, and so we have parted.