Clippings.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 119, 24 October 1901, Page 1

Clippings.

** You see, Admiral Seymour marched towards Pekin to relieve the missionaries f then a force left Tientsin to relieve Seymour ) another force marched front Taku to relieve them, and then '* “Great Scott 5 Sounds like a story of • Polar expediiion, doan’t it?” After a christening at a church, Whits the minister was making oat tbs certificate, he happened to say : “ Let me eee, this is the thirtieth.” “ Thirtieth 1” exclaimed the indignant mother. " Indeed, it is only the eleventh.” The minister was alluding to the day of the month.

The beginning of all life a March for individual happltiMo. We look 'upon the world as made specially for ourselves, and we expect with tbs utmost confU denes that everything around us will minister to our pleasure. And in every ease wo experience a bitter dlMppoint* ment.

“Johnny,” said bis mother, I want you to leave .off using that vulgar language:” “ Why, mother,” replied Johnny. Shakespeare said what I ju*t Mid/, “Thenyou most hot associate with him,” said the good woman, “ He’s not a fit companion for you.” Waiter (who has upset a bowl ol soup down the old gentleman’s back) , “Hot a word, sir | not a word} my fault entirely.” lawyers “ Itl* reported that you have frequently expressed yourself as opposed to capital pumsh&enb'” Deaooo High, soul.(drawn W da W : * >l lave co ohsated me oh * h»H tradeJonW’