SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3546, 17 December 1881, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

"Bo brief, for It is with words as with sunbeams; the more they are oondonsod tne deoper they burn."-SoUTHKY.

The man who takes well is the police* Tlie garno literai-y men shoot—The reed A loVe-letter is not the only writ of attachment. The man Who had a fist thrust at his nose said that he was shaken to the scentcr. Webstor Was an (esthetic, because ho enthusiastically says in his dictionary that the verb " speak " is too utter. "Six Girls" is tho title oC the latest novel. It is expected tbat a sequel, entitled " Our Broken Gate," will be issued The Sail FranfiisCO mail, Which arrived In Auckland last Wednesday, was delivered in Wellington at 3.30 yesterday afternoon. The Southern portion was sent on At 5 o'cloofa , , Ldwyef to clieht: " U^od-bye, and keep your own counsel, Pat." Client: "Sure an' 'tis keepin' him I am ivev since I went to law;" , The lawyer and tllb doctor are the real highwaymen on tho roitd of life. The one takes your money, and the other your life. 'Tis'snid the oyster frequently gets into ft stew, but it has never been as yet reported that he jumped out of the frying-pan "»to the fire. Tobacconists have discovered that a little red label on a five-cent, cigar makes it worth ten cents. Smokers have not yet discovered tho lact. The Koglish Baptists arc about to send six more nii.ssioharies to the Congo River. The Rhenish Missionary Society is laboring in South Africsiin Borneo, and in China with great success. The sale of Bibles has recently been Very large in Bulgaria, and there are signs, it is said, of deep religious intefest. A recent religious census taken in Prussia shows that that country contains 17,G45,4G2 Protestants, 0,205,130 Catholics, 363,790 Jews, 42,618 Dissenters, and 22,006 persons professing no religion. " I remember," said Brewer, •• I remember two young men who used to board at my house—they are both dead now," The crowd broke into a meaning smile, and Brewer wondered why they didn't wait for the funny part of the story to come. " That dog of yours flew at me this morning and bit mo on the Icg ( and now I notify you that I intend to shoot it the iirst time I see it.1' " The dog is not mad." "Mad! I know be is not mad. What's he not to ba mnd about ? It's mo that's mad."

" Ain't this a little high " asked a timid tenderfoot of a Deadwood tavern-keeper, who had cnarged him four dollars and a half for his dinner. It may be a little high," replied the host, fumbling with the handle of a revolver in the caßh drawer, " but 1 need the money." He got it. Two women were arrested recently with their husbands in a wood at Vinccnnes on a charce of lighting a duel. The husbands acted as seconds, and both women were wounded. They belonged to the lower classes.