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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 5, Issue 235, 30 November 1861, Page 3

A lady of fashiofl, upon being told that one of her six-footed Jenkinses had been married the previous day to her lady's maid, in the aristocratic church of Hanover-square, was so scandalised that, forgetting her position, her English, her placidity, and all the other properties of life, she exclaimed most bitterly : — 'It's too bad, I declare, to turn St. Georges in this way into a low-menial altar' An editor, summing up the virtues of a soapboiler, late deceased, concluded with the usual phrase of " Peace to his ashes." The remark gave great offence to the family, one of whom threatened the editor with personal violence. - Going into the dwelling of a neighbour, with suspicious looking b^ots, the good wife hailed him with," Did you seethe scraper at the door, Uncle Eb ?" « Yes'm," was thereply, " and I intend to use it when I go out." An aged clergyman, who had not known one day's illness, was asked his secret. " Dry feet and early rising " was the reply, " these are my only precautions."