Odds and Ends.

Hastings Standard, Issue 30, 1 June 1896, Page 4

Odds and Ends.

To give up trying is to invite the devil to commence. A young lady can stand np straight and still be beut on marriage. Amy: " I never see your chaperon with yon anymore." Malik*: •• No ; she married my best man." The teacher : [i What are the principal product* of Ireland ?" The smart scholar: " Taters and agitators." Every man should know something of law : if he knows enough to keep oat of it he is a pretty good lawyer. " There is evidently a great deal to be learned about women," says a Philadelphia editor. There is, indeed, and flie best way to learn it is to ask some" other woman about it. " I always knew that John's love was unremitting," said a gentleman friend to a lady who complained that her husband had not sent her aov money since his absence from home. " When the editor proposed and was accepted, he said to his girl, " I would be glad if you would give me a kiss," then, observing her blnsh, he added " not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of faith." She could not resist that. The high school girl explained to her particular friend, yesterday, that "He kicked the bucket" was slang, and that the polite expression was, "He propelled his pedal extremities with violence against a familiar utensil | used for the transportation of water j MHI nlh«T fluids." I