MISCELLANEOUS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 659, 5 January 1881, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

'' My son, you shouldn't be so rough with people, A hint is as good as a kiss." " Yes, father, for the time; but it doesn't begin to make such a lasting impression." A young lady following a Shaksperian play with a book remarked to hqr companion : " How imperfect these actors are 1 None of them say' exit' when they gooff." " I don r t believe it's any use to vaccinate for the small pox," said a backwoodsman. " For I had a chili vaccinated, and aud in less than a week lie fell out of a window, and was killed,

When men break their hearts it is the same as when a lobster breaks one of its claws—anotHer.sprouting immediately to grow in its place. • McSnivel aays he has often been comforted in trouble by the beautiful text, "Honesty is the mothor of invention."

Tito penalty for knocking down a lawyer in New Jersey is the same as for stealing two hens from a doctor in Delaware.

When a man says, "I hear a noise," it probably never ooours to him that there is nothing in this world that anybody can hear but a noise.

Sir Julius Yogel, in his roply to the Rev J. Foster's mis statements, says that it is a folly to suppose that an excess of labour ha 3 more than a temporary signify eanoa in a oountry like New Zealand. In the course of time it will support a popiit lation flf ovor 20,000,000. How absurd to think that it is over-populated with less than half a million!

UMIKI3OENUEB OS WBliU*UTON.—ill the year 1845 a worthy oitizen plodded his way with some difficulty through fern and ti-troe to Te Aro Flat bsing in search of the surveyor's peg which had been driven in at the corner of what is now Cuba and Dixon streets,- Upon this spot was erected a small house, in which a very successful drapery business was carried on by two ladies of remarkable talent and energy, who have }ong siuce retired from the scene to the land of their birth—. "Land o* t'ae mountain and tho flood. Land of brown heath and shaggy wood. In tho year 1866 it passed into tho hand 3 of MbJasiks Smith, tho present proprietor, who gave to the premises the appropriate name of Te Aro House, and under whose management business has steadily progressed with tho rising fortunes of the city, until at length it was found that a considerable onlargoment was necessary, and the result was, To Aro House, as at present, one of tho most complete and Extensive Drapery Establishments in tho colony of Now Zealand, The general Drapery occupies a large space, being 49 feet by 25 feet, amply sufficient for all Manchester goods, Fancy Drosses, Silks, Gloves, Hosiery, Ribbons, Laces, &c. Tho Men's, Boy' 6, and Youths' Clothing Department measures 24 feet by 14 feet, and lias attached a comfortajjle |tting:rooni. Carpols and Household fnrilishjugs have a iiiiuiiar space allotted to them. The Show-room for tho sale of Millinery, Mantles, Jackets, Costumes, &c,, is a very spacious apartment, elegantly fitted up, audibeautifully lighted from tho roof, and measures 89 feet by 22 feet. Tho stock of goods is at all times large and well selected, aud patterns are forwarded post free on application/ A special feature at To Aro House istheOfdor Department, aud very'careful attention ia paid to the wants of Country Residents, Allordors are executed under the immediato supervision of the proprietor, aud securely packed and forwarded trtheir destination with that promptness and despatch which have always distin guished To Aro House, Cuba-street, Welling on.—[advt.l