News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 64, 14 February 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

-r-:op: — . . There is no special sty le.of engraving for engagement rings. - A spider 'a web with a fly m it is a very pretty device. An Arkansas man ha§. discovered that water will cure insanity. They have found no other use for it- m that quarter as yet.. : •. ' ' ' J 1 At what age .were you married ?' asked she inquisitively. But the other woman was equal to the emergency, and quietly responded, ' at the parsonage.' A man took a seatin a barber's chair: He asked the barber if he had the same r«*or he had used two days before. Be- £ ing answered m the affirmative, the -^ patient man said, ' Thenjjive me chloro* form.' Fashionable young lad , detaching her hair before retiring — * Whftt dreams may come when we have shuffled of this mor-s tßlcoil! 5 ; „.;. : ' A never-failing spring,' as the bay ye*marked when the schoolmaster juni tied from his seat, which had been mor u'a'ed with a bent pin. •I tell you,' said the bad boy,confidently, to a group of youth ful.J friends ' my mother may seem small— don't be« lieve she'd weigh more than I do, m her stooking feet — but her slippers is heavy though, you bet F A young girl was caught kissiiiq her sweetheart a few daya ago. Her mother took her to task tor such actions, but the girl silenced her by this quotation; — 1 Whatsoever yewoold that men should do unto youydo you even so j unto them.* Thoold lady waited. Memories of old were brought forcibly to mind. * Don't J' is the ejaculatory title of a book recently issued. Well, we won't, and. what is more, we dian't, • ' Love laughs at locksmiths,' and yet there isnVanj thing funny abotit a lock^ smith, .