A CANADIAN WANT.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1520, 1 April 1882, Page 4

A CANADIAN WANT.

A kkcknt number of "Tlie Colonies and India " contains the foilowing :—": — " Tlicic seen to lie abundant oppoi tunities in the colonies for respectable young women matrimonially inclined. No sooner have a number of female immigrants' landed in Australia or New Zealand than they arc engaged by employers, anxious to secure theirservices in various occupations and this ' engagement 'is speedily followed by another which ends in their quitting their first employment and taking their place as the wives of successful farmers and others who, having roughed it for a few years, have made for themselves a comfortable home, which they could never have expected to realise in the Old Country. The young men who, in the ardour of hope, go alone or in twos and threes into an unsettled county, and devote their whole energies to the virgin waste, being after a year or two of labour to think of making their new home complete by taking to themselves a wife. They can then without hesitation invite the girls they left behind them to share their new lot. But it often happened that an unfortunate Ca-lebs, not having been 'free selector' in the matrimonial market before his departure for the backwoods or the bush, h under the necessity of nuclei taking a journey in search of a wife, or of waiting an unconscionable long time before he can meet a 'woman to his mind.' A Canadian paper states that there ai c at present no less than eight hundred bachelors under the care of a single Presbyterian superintendent of missions in Manitoba, and it is seriously proposed to pot up a party of marriageable gii lsfiom Ontario in the spring to take by stoim this stronghold of enforced celibates. A local editor, touched with sympathy ior the hard lot of the disconsolate bachelors and for the equally unenviable position of the maiden ) whom the tide of emigiation has left high and dry on the sands of the older provinces, wliich have long since become •' settled " in more senses than one, oilers to receive applications from girls willing to join tho proposed expedition. The undertaking is a truly patriotic one, but the leaders had better beware of guaranteeing husbands for their followers. Few sensible girls, probably, will caic to join such an organisation, but the piopo.sal is but another indication of the fact that there does exist in the colonies a large demand for female emigrants. The announcement that the Tasmanian Government will take out a number of female domestic servants at a nominal cost, and find them immediate employment on ariival, is a case in point ; and respectable girls, able and willinsf to work, may readily find there certain employment at good •wages, with an excellent prospect of manying well.

'Tis the silly Aineiican gii 1 that likes to be held to n count. Loneliness, thy name is aclmruh sociable oyster. No man evermade asuceess of trying to hide a Christinas present from his wife. When Lord Byron's bat k was on the sea, he was probably going to the demnition bow wows." Young ladies should keep out of poetry writing. They bhould remember that "poets are born, not maid." There is an opening in Coi pusChristi for some enterprising old man. The oldest inhabitant has just died and lefta vacancy. A first-class full-fledged comet has a nucleus, comma and tail. None of them have periods, because they never come to a stop. A woman will coolly clean fish and open oysters with her husband's razor, but she will not for one moment think of trimming the lamp "with her new scissors. It is quite common now for newpapers to read banking people a lesion. But the banks' method of doing business, it must be remembered, is totally different from the method of the newspapers. In one establishment contributors must write only on one side of the paper, while in the other the cashier insists that all favors must be written on both sides of the sheet, and the more writing on the back the better. Darwin, in his new Look, estimates that there are in gardens 53,767 worms to the acre. This tallies with our count when we were digging garden and didn't care a nickel about finding worms; but when we wanted bait for fishing, the garden didn't pan out a doxen to the acre. They had all emigrated to the garden of some other fellow who never goes a-fishing. "I say, Sambo, where did you get de shirt studs?" "In de shop to-be-biire. " "Yuh! you just told me you hadn't no money." "Dat's right." "How did you get dem den?" "Well, I saw on a card in de window, 'Collar Studs,' so I went in and collared dem,. Mrs. Swisshelm says: "If men wear boots at all, the boots should reach to the waist and fasten to a belt." Think of a man Avifch such boots having the jim-jams. Great snakes ! A man called upon an unfortunate tradesman to pay a demand. "I can never pay it," said he ; "I am not worth a farthing; but will give you a note. — I am not so poor yet but that I can sign a notei '