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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1578, 25 February 1887, Page 4

Why is a novelist an Unnatural phenomenon P Because his tale comet out of his I end.

The Government of onesel/ is the only true freedom for the individual. Frederick Perthes.

A " three -year-old" discovered tho neighbour's hens iu her yard scratching In a most indignant tone see reported to her jmothar that Mrs Smith's heDS were " wiping their feet on our grass."

" Whom do you oonsider the greatest author, Dumas the elder, or his son f" "Um —I ra'her think the son." " Bah! I don't believe he ever would have been heard of if it hadn't been for bis father." " Well, that's so, too."

" You saw the prisoner when he fired the shots ? ' " Yes, lsaw him." ' How far were you from him P" " When he fired the first sho' I was about fire paces off " " And when he firad the second P" " About five hundred yards."

Tourist (in want of light, to tipsy straggler) [Hands out several, explaining.] " They hienite on boxsh." T.— "Awfully thanks. Where' the box ?" T. S.—'' That's wash I want to know—losh it yes'hday." " The ten-year-old boy of a poor woman had died of fever," relates a Philadelphia undertaker, " and I was engaged to bury him. [ went up to ask her if there was anything more I could do, and she handed me a little bundle, saying: " Please put these at the foot of Johnny's coffin. They are a pair of ,his old pantaloons, and the first I ever wh'pp«d him in."