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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2322, 28 May 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Statistics show that the average life of a clergyman is sixty-seven years, and of a day labourer thirty-two years ; and yet Byron thought that whom the gods love died young. As the train waß approaching Cleveland it parted in the middle, and the bellrope snapped off like thread, the end of it Btriking an old lady on the bonnet. " What is the matter?" she exclaimed. " Oh ! the train broke in two," replied a gentleman in the next seat. "I should say so," the old lady said. " Did they s'pose a trifling little string like that would hold the train, together ?" F- was a rising barrister, and he decided to introduce his little wife to his old Barfriend, and accordingly gave a dinner, to which he invited a County Court judge, a couple of Queen's counsel, a registrar in bankruptcy, and a few juniors. It was after the soup'that his youncr.spouse, wishful to give the conversation a legal turn, inquired of her neighbour whether ho know Sir Horace Davey. " Oh, yes ! But not intimately." ■■'" Is he not a peculiar per.ion, and one that you could hardly be. on visiting terms with ?" " I have never heard so ; why 1" " Because I read in the Times today that ' the Lord Chancellor said ho should not call upon Sir Horace Davey,'