THAT BOY AGAIN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2161, 15 May 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

THAT BOY AGAIN.

.As Smith was shaving himself he heard •one of his lads asking for the morning ■paper, and, being a good-natured man, !he took the paper into the room where his children were at breakfast. The wisest men sometimes are impelled to say wei k things, and he said to one of his little gir Is Whi «tood razor in hand — <T Shall I shave you?' " You may shave me, papa," said the la d who wanted the newspaper. . " I never shave idiots," was the parents 1 rebuke. " I thought you were shaving -younelf , papa," said the hope of the family.

A sailor who has recently retained from Newfoundland says that the fog fa so thick there, that he used 'to drire * f nail in it to hang his cap on. •,■ ! Signs of Longevity.— Lord .'Bacon Wrote much on longevity. His si; ms of short life are quick growth, fair, soft skin, soft fine hair, early corpulence, Urge head, short neck, small mouth, fa t ear, brittle, separated teeth. Some of his signs of long life are clow growth, hard, « soaree b'air, rough, freckled skin, deep fu rrows inJixQ- -forehead, firm flesh with Yeian lying high, wide nostrils, large m .outfa, hard, . gristly ear, strong, ocnti; gaous tteth. , He adds that early gray hi we is not significant, some of the longest , Uf«r» have turned gray in early life. .