WIT AND HUMOR.
A short time £go a lady whose education was not of the most com* plete character took her son to a private theatrical entertainment at a township in Canterbury. The youngster's attention was attracted by the legend upon the Royal Arms over the proscenium, Honi soifc gui mal y penae. " Ma, what does that reading mean ?" To which the fond mother replied — "That, my dear, is Latin for 'God save the Queen.' " The widow of Charles 11., Grand * Duke of Parma, who abdicated in 1849 in favor of his brother, died near Lucca in July. Mr Byron was once knocked up at an unconscionable hour in the morning by a friend. " Ah," he said, " a rose two hours Jater would have been quite as sweet.'' ■ The sun never goes down on th/ Queen's dominions. " No," Mr Gilbert is reported- to have said, '• Heaven is afraid to trust an Englishman in the dark." ,*• , A subscriber to a newspaper died recently, leaving four years' aubsprip. tion unpaid. The editor appeared at the grave and deposited in the cffin a palmleaf fan, a linen coat/ and a thermometer. , ■
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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 27, 25 November 1879, Page 2
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