ENTRE NOUS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1331, 11 January 1881, Page 2

ENTRE NOUS.

— Ifc is most annoying to be disturbed at 2 a.m.

— Merely to inspect a mushroom of abnormal dimensions.

— Really life is too .short.

— The great pulpit orator t Dr. JTalmage, has said, " A bad newspaper writer scruples not a£' any slander, fit may be that to escape the grip of the law the paragraphs wiirßr'hteeTy*"wW<led, so that suspicion it thrown out, and the damage done, without any exposure to the law."

— " What is commercial integrity or personal reputation to such an one ?"

— " It seems as if he, held inhis hand a hose with which all the harpies of sin were working at tha pumps."

— "He splashes the water of death upon the best, the moat sacred interests of society."

— Whom the cap fits, let him wear it.

— JS"o leas than four ladies had to leave church on Sunday evening suffering from the great heat.

— And yet no attempt was made to lesson the temperature.

— The Sunday before last a gale of wind was Wowing, and most of the windows suffered to remain wide open.

— C. 0. Montrose id at Cambridge.

— The gallant Colonel is immense with his walking stick under his left arm a la nulitairc.

— On the Ngaruawahia railway platform, when the trains arrive.

— Times are terribly hard.

— I haven't seen a fiver for months.

— Nevertheless, I know of one man at Te Awauiutu who possesses one.

— John McCartie by name.

—He drew the lucky 666 ticket in Mosea's Sweep.

— Sir Arthur Gordon is expected to pass through Hamilton in a few days.

— Ho is to listen to an address, and to drive under a " triumphal" arch.

— Poor man.

— "Where does the '■ triumph" come in ?

— The Village B. does not believe in lemonade and raspberry.

— In itbdf, this beverage is, he admits, agreeable ; but sipped to the strains of Moody and S.mkey, it engenders acidity, which requiiea correction.

— I don't believe she gossip'-. No.

— She is merely shopping.

— What was contained in the packefc of papers which a gentleman in Sloanestrect. To Awamutu, so hurriedly put in his bieast pocket the other day ?

— I understand fch.it each of the bfcewards of the late Bachelor^' Ball are thinking that my note about the ' ' goodlooking" steward was meant for him.

— Three of them, at any rate, have been boiing 1 their frionds with the remark, " I say, old fellow, do you see what Pauvre Diablo b<iyh about me in the En t re yb/<i> column. ''

— How can a man be a chairman and yet t>taud on a tub ?

— Nevertheless, Mi A. Porter was ch aii man of a meeting, and the way he took the chair was by hopping on to a. tub.

— The Th amis Aihurthcr should go to Sunday-school onco more, if ever ho went.

— Fancy calling January 6fch, which any child knows as Epiphany, or secularly as Twelfth Night, " ascension Thursday!"

— This was nearly as good as a very clever person, who, ou it being doubted •whether he knew what Chii&tmas was celebrated for, said: "Oh! you uoedu't think that Christ was crucified twice."

— The following is too good to be lost: The scene is a bar-room in a well-known Cambridge hostelry, in which two J.s P. are bitting chatting.

— Enter Jock, who asks the more portly of the two, " Great Unpaid," to "have a drink;" to which answer is made, "No thank yotv I've just indulged."

— Jock: "Well, now, better have another, altho* faint feo much the liquor, as that I want to get into society.

— Miss W h -was the belle of tie Select Quadrille Party on last Tuesday evening.

— And Mrs T n was decidedly the best dancer in the hall.

— But half of the music was very sick.

— Benner is leaving Cambridge to the regret of everyone.

— With characteristic gallantry a well-known, lawn tennis player attempted the other day, with the bsSttiaEfiis head to atop a tennis ball for a laiyityaying.

— He has since found it necessary to invest in a new hat three and a-half sizes too large for him.

— There is to be a bread and butter dance at TU Estate to-night.

— The Hamilton #»7e a l on e are invited! to-night. > t

— The Cambridge elite wiU have their turn shortly. ' ,, > , ', ', \,

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