Miscellaneous.

Wairoa Bell, Volume IV, Issue 153, 8 July 1892, Page 6

Miscellaneous.

The lady who had a ; spark ’in her eye as kindled a ‘ match ’ without trouble.

Would you'he surprised to learn that the man who stole Ao ju fge’s coat shortly afterwards appeared in a Taw suit? Some people say that dark-haired women marry soonest. A woman’s rights agitator Rays it is the 1 light-headed ’ ones.

. How to be happy on the cheap—Go without your dinner and see how happy you will be—when supper time comes.

A French paper points out how the passion for gambling is shown in England, so that even in wedding notices it was necessary to state that.there were ‘ no cards.’

A courteous old gentleman, being 'told a very tough, story, said : ‘ Since you were an eye-witness, I suppose I must believe you, but I.don’t think I’d have believed it had I seen it myself.’

On entering the box, a witness had a Testament presented to him, but he declined to be sworn* Oh being asked his leasons for refusing, be naively replied, ‘ I’ll tell a lie wi’ ony mon i’ England, but I’ll not swear to it/

Why are women like churches ?—First, because there is no living without one , secondly*, because theie is many a spire to them ; thirdly, because they are objects of adoration ■ and lastly, but by no means leastly, because they have a loud dapper in their upper story.

A man in New Y 7 ork has a watch which he says has gained time enough to pay for itself in six months.

Senator Howe has made a stiking impression upon a reporter of the Post. This personage thus describes the senator,. ‘ Comfortably leaning back in his chair aud toying with half a yard of red tape, much as a boy plays with a white gig, his head poised a little out of perpendicular and one eye closed at times, with the expression of a parrot contemplating the fiusrer of an or. - welcome visitor—that i .an with <.-i hair

j rky movements and air of boundless selfappreciation—that’s Howe, As he rises to make an objection lie seems to develop by sections, as one draws cut a telescope/