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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2453, 31 March 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

" Doctor, when do you think a m»n weighs mont"? asked a patient who was undergoing a course of dietary treatment. " When lie steps on my corns," answered the doctor. Shi; : " Before we were married you promised to fulfill every wish you read ill my ev-s, but I don't find it so at all." He: " Yes; since that time I have grown very near-sighted." \t a '• Woman's Rights" meeting one if the lady orators exclaimed, "I tell you that woman is aheady a silent power in the land." At which a synical old bachelor exclaimed, "A silent power! Good ! .May she for ever remain so !" {) 11. John !" said a beautiful eirl to her lover, as he met her in the garden. "Oh, .I,>!j:i, al, i:has stung me ! " To which the gallant lover responded —• " Xo wonder it toi '< you for a lliwcr ! " I'i i a/.KN I : " It my onir.ion, sir, that fortunes should be limited.'' Capitalist: " I agree with you." Citizen : "Indeed !' Capitalist: "Ve s , sir; Uiey should be limited Lo a very few persons." A Bill to give effect to the provisions of the Fisheries Treaty has been introduced in the (J.umdhin House of Commons.