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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1150, 8 November 1879, Page 1 (Supplement)

"What! You are aware that this poor man had jnsfc lost his wife, and instead of sending him the smallest word of condolence, you dun him for the 200 francs that he owes yon/ '•Hem ! I know that there are grief which no words can console, and I thought I was doing* him a service m giving another courso to his sad thoughts." — French paper*. A tack points heavenward when it means most mischief ; it has many human followers. " The "Cincinnati Commercial" does not believe that an apple caused the fall of Adam, bat thinks that it might have been an orange or banana peel. Onion parties are all the rage m lovra. Six young ladies take an onion with them into a room and one of the number takes a bite of it. Then a yountf gentlpman is admitted, and, after kissing all of them, if he fails to tell which of them bit the "injun,'' why then tho girls are a T I of them compelled to kiss him, or he is compelled to kiss all of them, and we forget which. The play will have a big run here if the onions hold out. A cromo goes with the play. The principal of Yassar College stepped suddenly into one of the reading rooms and said; — "That person who is chewing gum will please step forward and put it on the desk." The whole school stepped forward with one accord toward the desk, while the te cher slipped her quid beneath her toungue and said:— "Leally gurlls, I'm SUpprisekl,