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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 242, 11 October 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)

Johnny —How old was Methuselah, auntie? Aunt—Nine hundred years old. "And how old are you, auntie?" "Thirty, my child." "Then papa reckoned wrong by eip'ht hundred and seventy years. He said you were as old as Methuselah." . WAR REMTNTSCENCES.. Two troopers were recently relating- to each other their roughest experiences in South Africa. Tommy No. 1 said: "Mv hottest corner was in that terrible battle of Spion Kop." "Oh, that's nothing." said Tommy No. 2. "my hottest corner was when two Boer women got at me while T was carrying- off one of their ducks." THE ZEALOUS EMPLOYEE. Zeal on the part of an employee, even if misdirected, is pretty sure to win the approval of an employer. A boy who worlcs in a Syracuse hardv.a're store (says the "Youths' Companion") sold a countryman some coarse blasting powder 'by mistake, instead of the gunpowder he had asked for. The man came in next day to exchange it, and when the head of the firm appeared on the scene the boy was trying to persuade the customer to keep the b ast'ng powder and buy a coffee mill to .grind it.