ENTRE NOUS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1381, 10 May 1881, Page 3

ENTRE NOUS.

— I was glad to notice a decided improvement in the lighting of S. Peter's on Sunday evening.

— I don't believe in ghosts.

— But the other night at Fred's hotel, a very pleasing "shadow on the wall" was seen.

— Near the top of the house too !

— And conjured up the quotation from Ingomar — Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one !

— One of Hamilton's upper crust recently in Auckland took a few lady friends in a 'bus to Onehunga, Ho sat near the door, and just after the vehicle moved off a young urchin got upon the step for a cheap ride.

— The U C. told him to get off, but the lad wouldn't. So U.C. .asked the boy " Why he didn't pay the fare,'' and received for reply that he couldn't. " How's that," said the U.O. " Because, sir, " you haven't paid my mother for your last week's washing."

— U.C. collapsed.

— X hear that friend Camming is well patronised at his brewery for " cheap dinner beer."

— But the question is how long will it last.

— There is a talk of a new Volunteer Corps being started in Hamilton.

— It would be more in the fitness of things, if business men making up their books on Sunday, when the bells are calling people to church, would pull down the office blinds.

— A photographer has been trying two or three times last week to take a picture of the Hamilton Junction with the train

— But, hitherto, has been unsuccessful.

— This is the more t® be regretted, because a worthy medico and the jaunty Q.O.E. have on each occasion "struck an attitude" in the foreground.

— The Hamilton Band practices are well attended, I am glad to learn.

— And in spite of having no bandmaster there exists bon accord among the members now.

— Monsieur Calon purposes, I believe, seeking happier climes.

~ Life is full of compensations.

— When asked by his friend how he got on at his lodging-house, the boarder replied, "Oh, all right; the average is good ; the tea is weak, and the butter is strong."

— And acting on the same principle, I suppose, two Hamilton gentlemen thus conversed not very long ago.

— " When the Queen of Honolulu died," said one, "/tall the people from the /(islands round about came to the funeral."

— "All," interjected his friend, "to do 'er 'omage I spose."

— The average you see was right.

— A friend of mine went the other •veuing to hear Madame Wilmot lecture on " crime."

— And he tells me he was much edified.

— After informing her hearers that crime was crime, which, considering that they paid their money to hear something original, was disappointing,

— She proceeded to say that criminals could not help committing crime, because they were born with mental deformities.

— 'My friend says it ia only necessary to attend one of these lectures to be assured of that fact.

— The old custom of throwing the slipper after a newly-married couple is fasb falling into disuetude.

— Bui, if an attempt be made to rescue it from oblivion, it should be done with some regard to decency.

— A gin case full of dirty old boots is hardly a fit substitute.

— When is the Debating Club to re-assemble ?

— The Opposition is getting impatient, and ambitious.

— New Bill — " No confidence."

— The great question now is— What costume to wear at the Calico Ball 1

— These are my suggestions.

— The Q.B, will probably #o as the Silent Woman.

— Mrg will, a3 usual, dress as "sweet sixteen."

— Messrs V , B , and S are meditating Shakesperian characters.

— They at first intended " A Comedy of Errors," then came "The Tempest," and now they are contemplating " Love's Labor Lost."

— The Misses will go as two volumes of Walker (unabridged).

— NbuveauSiche says he can afford a silk dress, and means his wife to wear one at the Calico Ball.

— By all means.

Just as the gentlemen of Houndsditch wear a superabundance of jewellery to show they have got so much money, , and are ■ snobs.

— A calico ball is one of the few occasions when good tasty, counts for more than, a long purse, - ,• i

— "So mote it be." , r