PEARLS OF PRICE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2603, 20 May 1887, Page 2

PEARLS OF PRICE.

Mrßuskin kg, iir a recent letter, described railroads as''.' the loathsome form of devilry now,extant; animated . and deliberate earthquakes,' dostructivo of all wise ' social habits or possible natural beauty, carriages of damned souls on their o.wri.graves." Hero are a few more elegant extracts taljbiby anticipation from .bis', own PanKnlar Common Place Book;:~" Jive" o'clock Teaii-ta festering consensus of male and female foul-uiontbed fiends met together to jabber their hell gibberish one to; another with a whitelivered disregard of their own inevitable damnation. ■. 4 Penny Steam-boat Company.- A shrieking, unudrprusbiog and Bpluttering concern, designed by itsbedevilmentfl tocburnuptbe filthy ink of a metropolitan Tartarus, and carry its infernal human cargo into utter outer darkness economically. The British Muffin.—Cursed sod riddled paste of Cerberus, fitted to ohoke tho deliberate and gluttonous voluptuaries who feed on it. The Three per Cents.—A diabolical device of financial jugglery in vojvea' hi . which Government'aM }WjL$% clutching together abackother'sflgiU go down to the bottomless fomSghg Army and Navy —A mammoth tophot, where bloated and blighted shareholders haggle ;b hysterics ovor the cheapening of their, own coifius, in sight of the infernal firea that await them when the'bargain is over, 'V ; /" : Saturday Pops—The yeljmg of njid; night caty and the baying ojb'a^jna\ ; -v hell-hounds, jingled for the satisfaction.' >: of the, godless .and fatuous ■ fool* who'.;, can be concerned into listening to them, Riding in an Omnibuß,-»An alto, gether damnable method of locomotion destructive off all >ise, §6oial habit, •natural beauty, in the!panperi&ed moodi as those who, as/a'fitting preparatioa : in theft own ; hearses, hare rsoourlße.tO'it.-..---v-.i, ■% ■'■ .\ ','!•, l: . .The 'Oxford ; and"Cambridge Boat- ,f .■Race.'—Tho form ofdiabbli.,-* carathletioism ! ?Hant,

■ . .devils, like- animated mid deliberat 6 v ' ■'' volcanoes disport tlh'itiselv'es in. tli e { presence- of a roaring and infernal raob> ' .-. who would not caro r single brazen farthing were they to see- them slide off their Bliding seats into ridges of tlitir • o*ll graves. "... .Aiejfcciit letter.on railroadH.—'' The idiociiy that has lately ;felti||B;.wjtty; into rhodornon- ...'• •violence $l& : balded m\\ stuffed • " •'• '■'• .Bltri)hrt'Bp3.'of'.(i l deWli ;^^iuf(l': i fop/ i, . "V. *. to. : iis . r :owa r partiiqu)ai r grKve*-7-and ! " the'aoone'r the ',' : ; :i ': a .-. '-.Tea,."Bftida (iueensiaiider,'^ljq.had; 4Bsh' •' fcefo •iiftMforN/irfti; <;|' .aii : - : p6werful[y.i{iii'd; d. irhiaky] ",lm they'll'' i ; give:tip'-evorything, Old-man '•'• '■ outiriearTownßville offered tuo-'a 'pony, * '■' • eaddlei bridlei blanket, arid I don't know '■''■■■ what olau for a pint of,' whisky 1 had with . "■ ' ■ pie'.' 1 "And yoa wouldn't give it to him?" ■' •' ' "Nofc'iuucb. That was fGo last pint - 1 ;'"'''.' had left.. But it shows how fond ... aboriginals are of whisky."