Clippings from the Comics.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 3 December 1891, Page 3

Clippings from the Comics.

» Information wanted— What do potatoes see with their eyes ? What spectacles best suit the sight of a gun? The Editors post mortem Examination -An obituary notice. Critical Times — First night at the play. Do the documents that are sent to the dead letter office undergo post mortem examination. Flighty things — Pigeons. jj|. Fair Customer (who has been a good hour in the shop without buying anything)— Have you nothing else you can show me ? Shopman — Yes. madam, the door ! People who generally draw it mild — Lady cigarette smokers. Tilings Judy'd like to know— whether a " Safe Cure " is the same asti^och sure cure? Whether it wou\ir be possible to abtain shoe leather for nothing from a freehooter ? Whether a knuckle-duster would not be a good instrument with -^ which to have a " brush with the enemy ? i (From Moonshine.) Why do Bryant and May use the ' Ark as their trade-mark ? — Because the animals went in in pairs, and therefore, the Ark must have been full of matches. The portrait of the young King of •Spain now adorns the postage stamps "of that country. Although this may help to teach the young gentleman his letters, it will result in his being -fyery much stuok-up. Ladies mantles are to be worn longer this winter. No doubt the longer they are worn, the better husbands and fathers will like it. (From Fun.) Masher to Shopkeeper.— "Haw! - have you a ferrule that'll fit this gtiok ?' ' Shopkeeper -No sir ; I don't keep them. Masher— Well, you don't keep them, do you ? you want to sell them. He scored there— At a recent " first night " a massive lady in the orchestra stalls much disquited a man in the seat behind by the acreage of bust her dress failed to cover. She subsequently left her seat unconsciously carrying a halfsheet of note-paper pinned to the lace trimming atter back of her bodice bearing on it, in large writing, v Put a penny in the slot and the rest of the lady will come up." Really to bad — Jones is in a bad way. Finding himself involved in great financial straits, his intimate friends advised him recently to settle all his property on his wife, and then go through the I'ankruptcy Court. He did so ; and the week after his wife ran away with a Colonel in the army.