Scintillations.

Auckland Star, Volume XI, Issue 3198, 21 October 1880, Page 2

Scintillations.

• J!o brief; for, it is with words as with sanbcamit; the. more they aro o jndenseti, ths deeper they burn."—Southky.

A paper that is always full of 'good points : a paper of needles. The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little, and to endure much. The first indication ot domestic happiness is the love of one's home.

Final assent to the withdrawal of the Government proclamation over the Pateterc is delayed. The Waiuku Cavalry are not likely to visit Auckland en the Prince of Wales' Birthday.

Another Musket: Mr Wm. Sawday's mare has dropped a fine foal to Musket (a colt). Some of the Kelly gang sympathisers are preparing to equip another gang of bushrangers.

Dr. Kinder's resignation of his connection with St. John's College will be brought under the notice of the Synod.

Two thousand children marched in procession at. the centenary Sunday school celebration at Nelson yesterday.

The subscription beggar and impostor Jackson at Christchurch, has been sentenced to three months, for stealing a coat,

Waiuku has steam communication with Onehunga five days a-week now by the steamers Oregon and Mauukau.

'■ A-hem I—When1 —When a poor young lady hems handkerchiefs for a rich bachelor, it may be suspected that she is sewing that she may reap.

| Among the Romans the gift of a ring was a badge of liberation from slavery. Married people may best explain whether it is so among the moderns. Basbful lover (to bis belle): Would that I had three kilograms of dynamite 1"— Belle : " Why, monsieur ?"—Bashful lover : " To break the ice between us."

, Mike Tobin, a retired prize-fighter of Troy is described by a local paper as living peace fully in a little cottage with an aged annt Solomon said : " Go to the ant, thon sing gard," but this is believed to be the first in stance of a sluggard going to his annt.