ODDS AND ENDS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 13, 1 April 1909, Page 518

ODDS AND ENDS

Tommy: ' Pa, what is the difference between a philanthropist and a philosopher?'

Father : ' A philanthropist is a man who gives away other people's money, and a philosopher is a man who bears -with resignation the pain which his neighbor suffers from the toothache.'

'Wo obtain wool from sheep. The wool is made into cloth, and with the cloth they make clothes. Now, EJmund, what is yoiir overcoat made of?' 'Of an old one of father's, sir!'

Dr. Thompson, the late Master of Trinity, once received a request from the principal of one of the ladies' colleges at Cambridge for the loan of the Trinity Fellows' gardens for a garden, party, to which members of the University would bo invited. Dr. Thompson replied, ' Madam, our gardens are intended for horticulture, not for lmsbandry.'