THE HONEYMOON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 929, 19 November 1881, Page 2

THE HONEYMOON.

They wore married in the morning and immediately stopped aboard the car for a bridal tour to San Francisco. They attracted considerable attention on tbe way by their honeymoon actions, and created a great deal of quiet fun among ,the goodly number of ladies and gentleman who were passengers, In due time the car entered a tunnel and all for a few moments was enveloped in darkness, All too soon the cars emerged into the broad glare of the noonday sun, and our loving bride and groom were discovered locked in each other's arms and exchanging kisses at a rate seldom seen, in public. The passengers took in the situation in about a second, and a shout went up that nearly threw the train from the track, and brought "the; conductor to the sceneon a double-quiet.. ',' Pass it round I" yejled a big man who was on his way West to get hii w|ft. I'.Cfp.

back to the tunnel If said Another man . to the conductor. 'As the newly-made husbund settled back in/his seat he was heard to say, " Sarah, I thought tunnels were longer. Darn a railroad company, anyhow." Thr Dnke of Sutherland recently appeared at a garden party, given by the \ Princess of Wales, in a suit of white \ linen. \*L There is just at .present quite a rush upon British Hereford cattle by American stock-breeders; report says they suit the hardships of the plains and the co\i\M winter- olimate better" than the ShorffTr ' horns, Hf _ To get over £6OO from 20 acres of land in one year is a piece of good fortune which falls to few people, but according to the Pleasant Creek News this has been accomplished by a Chinaman in Yiotoria, one Tong Ah See, who from his farm of 20 acres produced 10 tons of tobacco, which he sold at U per lb. ' The Chinese and Japanese excel all other nationalities in the culture of early vegetables, This arises from the fact that they use only liquid manures; hence the growth of the plants is most rapid, and as a natural conaequerce, the vegetables are very brittle and tender. Lettuce and radishes they force rapidly, giving the plants a sprinkling once a day. Tobacco and tea plants are also treated in like manner. , " Muoh sickness about the city, doctor!" was asked of a physician yesterday. "Well, well, can say the business is improving." answered the smiling interrogatee. This is the latest American form of say* ing a man was hanged: "He was unanimously chosen by a convention of ( »ix pro-perty-holders to jump from a new pine platform into the sweet future."., i The following epitaph is from atomb stone in Indiana:— •I . ' Under This sOd our Babie LieS, it neither cßies nOr HolEri, IT LivEd Just twenty 7 Days, And ooßt us forty dollars.,; " Can you read English I" saida 1 French editor to one of his subordinates;!:" No," he replied, "not a word," " Well, it don't matter. Get the Loudon papers and out out whatever strikes you as interesting, and I will translate the extracts," . A lady in Wiacoßiu prepared a surprise for her husband, and confidently told a party of her lady friends that she had got for him a nice box of cigars. !' George," she said " always pays £3los for his, but I've got these for 10j," When a dog howls at night it is the sign of death. It is if you can get at the brute, I Said Fogg, as ho slipped a coin in the waiter's hand, "I am not a Spiritualist, but I occasionally indulge in- table tippling." When the telegraph wires are put under ground small boys will be obliged to dig before they .can faßlen their kitetales to the wires. Yellow fever is still raging in Senegal and in some localaties is causing a panic. Ships about to sail for Franco are flooded with application for berths.