MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1211, 31 July 1884, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A temperance man oraiing at a soldier's banquet out west, had occasion to repeat the couplet, "Their bones are mouldering in the dust, Their spirits arei in heaven, we trust;" but instead of the word "spirits" he used the word, "stimulants" as being less offensive to some good church members whom he saw j present. A policeman leaned over the area railing, and addressing Bridget, who was' at that moment engaged in shifting an ash barrel, observed, " Bridget, my darlint, the loight av yer eyes makes the dawn loike darkness." "Them's the very vrorruds that yer tapayrior, the sargint, sphoke to me. I suppoaz its a part of the discipline av the fource." Dkomnb op MAN.—Nervous, Weakness, Dyspepsia, Impotence, Sexual Debility, cured, by " Wells' Health Benewer." • Druggiits.i Kempthorne, Prosier & Co., Agents, Christohurch. In Scandinavia, mothers take their infants to church, clesely swaddled and wrapped in furs, and bury them in the snow drifts at the door, leaving little holes for the children to breathe through, whence from time to time issues a superior article of ice scream.