General News

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4555, 10 August 1883, Page 3

General News

The Australasian says:—" English investors are alive to the fact that the relatively large public debts which these colonies are piling up are nearly all on account of railways, and that these railways in general are proving remunerative to a degree that the most sanguine estimates at ' the first hardly anticipated. Thus already - it seems probable that the interest of the public .debts of New South Wales, Victoria, and New Zealand will ere long be met by tbe receipts of the respective railways over and above their expense?." ■ v A match-making mamma has given her sixdaughters one grand lesson in geometry. She tells them that a right-angle is to angle for a wealthy husband, but if seme other girl carries him off the right-angle becomes a wreck'd-angle. "Where they grow.—Small boy of eight (looking over picture book with boy of ten): " What's that ?" Small boy often: *• Why, don't you know ? That's a donkey. Haven't you ever seen a donkey ?•" Small boy of eight (doubtfully): "No " Small boy of ten (patronisingly): "Why I have; lota of em—in the Theological Gardens, you know." The Paris Temps points out that every country except England is taking precautipns against the introduction of cholera, and adds that if the disease, reaches English ports it will be impossible to prevent its spread to the Continent, which will owe tbe Visitation to England. . A tramp applied to a gentleman for a few pence tp buy some bread. " Can't you gO into any business that is more profitable than this ?" he asked. " I'd like to open • bank if I could only get the tools," ; answered the tramp. . .' »■■• The scene was a corner of a street at Timaru where there is a boarding, on which are displayed a colossal figure of a young lady arrayed in the latest fashions .- to be procured at one of our leading drapers, and alongside it, ghastly life-size -diagrams of the interior of the human frame, fowling (the' [subject of Mrs Dr Potts' lectures. Said one little girl of an - enquiring mind, pointing to tbe picture of the stylish female, " Whoever'B that, - Marier?" "That I"replied Marier, " Ob, that's Mrs Potts, the she doctor, and that's ,'er with all 'er clothes off." "Lawks!" exclaimed the astonished, youngster," Why the pore thing's nothing but a skellington 1"