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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3106, 11 June 1881, Page 4

" I say, Mick, what sort of potatoes are those you are planting?" " Raw ones." A New York man has christened his daughter Glycerine. He says it will be easy to prefix nitro if her temper resembles her mother's. " How came you to have such a nose ?" asked a, dandy of a country boy.— "So that I would not be poking it into other people's business," was the reply. Said an Arkansas coroner's jury, "We find that the • deceased came to his death incidentally, Jim Barkin's bowie knife having incidentally touched a vital part. An old maid suggests that when men break their hearts, it is all the same as when a lobster breaks one of his claws —another sprouts very soon, and grows in its place. " He's grown a to be a polished gentlemen, anyhow," said an old lady gazing fondly, as she spoke, at the shining bald head of her son just returned after a long absence. Moa bones, mixed with human remains, were found last week at Whitehead Bay in Buch a conglomerate that scientists are puzzled as to whether the men eat the moa, or the moa the men. The Duchess of Buccleugh once drove tip to the door of -ir James Simpson, and sent the footman to tell him that she waited without. " Tell the Duchess," he replied, "that Dr. Simpson is engaged with a washer-woman." Some of the American papers are speaking of the late " George r Hot" as " a very gifted but very immoral man." Yes, poor old fellow, he had his weaknesses ; but as a pugilist he stood unrivalled. England will not soon forget his celebrated "Millon the Floss."