NOT COMPLIMENTARY TO THE JUDGE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 38, 7 January 1879, Page 3

NOT COMPLIMENTARY TO THE JUDGE.

I Negative.— A little man observed j that he had two negative 'qu-ditiVv: •| he novei* Iny long m bed, and lv* j newr wanted a groat- coat. | Love Laughs at Lexicographer.--. ! — -his is a fact; by way .of proof jfa&o -h%f*|ll|o*^itiig^brie^ frum U'\;ou|g|ady to her lover:—. 1 " Dci-e | Jon— comeatafpastato." - i Somebody hns written a book eui titled. "AVhat Shall my Sun Be?" Upon which some one elso frankly replies: — " If the boy is as bad as tne book, the chances aio that he will be hanged."

"Atticus" tells thefollowing story in the Melbourne Leader : — " 'JJhe Sergeant (-Sleigh), as most peopfe know, is rather hard of hearing. When the crier was reading out a paper the Sergeant had several times to tell him to speak up. The greatest ornament of the judfcial bench at length • . said severely, ' Hand me the paper; I will read it myself.' But the Sergeant's face was turned to one side as he sat with his hand to his ear, all attention; pud he kuew not that the paper had left the crier's hands Imagine the feelings of the spectators when, after the learned judge read , for a minute or two, the Sergeant " Vfestily exclaimedj 'Well, my mar, if . yon mean that for reading, I'd go to school again. Open your mouth and pronounce your hV " "-' ;'*' „.' ' "' =\ -<-;*••> , ... An elderly gentlenran,* returnjigj . home from church, began to extol th&meritsof the' sermon to his son. j Said he; J' Jackal have heard one 1 '-''•" til (Ke' itfoSf OTIE-guT^iirmons ever i >J^livered before -a. Christian society. ; '-* It carried me to the gate ot' heaven." * ' ) flrjtfn't jou jtlodge in?" re*plied '* '*jjij%* «^«i *wiU^eyer have an^lt dOchch. nee.'' ■ \ " ■ »•'-.■ . .