VARIETIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 725, 24 March 1881, Page 2

VARIETIES.

it is said the ordinary life of a bee ia only ninety days. The end of a bee,, however,.is very lively. The individual who saw the mouse fighting with a piece of Liraburgher cheese readily realised that ■ Ihff victory is not always with the strong. • ; ? • _ People are cautioned against eating strawberries in the dark. It's unwise, and besides it is cruelty to insects. '

The average age of a hog is only fifteen years. This consoles us when we see a man spreading himself out over four seats of a railway carriage. Even a deacon doesn't say grace when he steps into an up-country railway refreshment room. - He knows it would be asking too much to request to be made thankful for anything he will get there.

How time changes; 1 In the good Old Testament days it was considered a miracle for an ass to speak. Now nothing short of a miracle will keep one quiet. Rev Dr Hall said that every blade of grass was a sermon, The next day. he was amusing himself by clipping his lawn when a parishioner said, . That's right doctor; cut your sermons short." It is very sad to learn late in life that the hitherto unsuspected primrose is a corollifloral dicotyledonous exogon, with a monopetalous carollo and a central placena. Professor Huxley is responsible for unearthing this scandalous fact.' : Winagain came out of a dentist's shop the other day, and, with a, ghastly smile, informed his dearest friends'that he had just lost a tooth through forceps circumstances, And none of them will speak to him.