News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 81, 4 March 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

1 'Erceetj.whit ia .osculation ?'* Osculation, May, dear, is a. learned expression queer for a nice sensation. I put my arm thus, round your waist, this is approxi* batioa: you, not tear— thereV noone here — your Upr quite-near — I than.' • Oh, dear '¥"•"* Mayy that's osculation.' The : Abcklnrid : city schools are now crowded^ and hundreds of children hay» to be rejected, as, the Education Board have no funds to build fresh- schools* ' It; is suggested to rent buildings. " Prime beef, mutton/and real, are being. advertised m Punedin at 2d per lb. It is the man m the mud who eees something m the tain to add mire. ' ' William,' said a teaoher-to one of his pupils, 'can yon tell me why the Btin risen m the east 7 1 ' 'Don't know,' replied W illiam, ' 'cepfc .it be that the east make! . everything rise.' Teacher fainted. 'Why do you set your cup of coffee qn r] the chair, Mr Jones ;.?' asked a worthy' landlady at breakfast'orie morning. ( It's so ,very weak, ma'.a.ro,' replied Jones, ' I thought I-ivdukl let it reat. 1 ' - s: .:(! Ther« is no better bon moivin literature ' than the reply of a^girl who heard her father criticised, severely > across _ a. dinuer^> table. The careless critic paused '"»_' moment to say, ( I hope he is no reUtir» of yours, Miss L ,' and quick, as thou{rhfc sbe replied, y^itb the utmost nonchalance, 'Only a connection :of mother's by marriage.' " ft " ■-■'--. " -•. — ; Johnny came home from. .'school, the other dayyery much, excised. ' What At> j you think j p.i 1 Joe Stewart, dnej of th^ big boys, bad an argument with rh#" J teacher abdut^a question m grammar-.' What position did Joe take?? ♦£« last position was across a chair, faeo down.' A lot more hardware a portion of the cargo of the Triumph has been recovered. Mrs Langtry, it is said, arranges h!er"' hair differently for eyery scene. ' ' ' It was the opinion of tbesncienti that ; Echo was « maiden who bad pined awajr for lore, till nothing but her roioe wai left. , .-.. ..-'.: On i her last trip to Sydney the Hauroto took 40 horae3 from Wellington. • : An uncomfortable solution of the. great', .'. suDset. mystery' 13 given by a Persian astrologer, who predicts that the ' blood- red appearance of the sky is a forewarning of a Ttir such as the world hai - never yet beheld . There is to be blioodshed on an unexampled scale m all quarters of the globe. ( , „...'" ' ' What m the best time to propose td a f^ifl?'., When the absolute necessity of having her father support you presents * itself; most forcibly to you* Bat keep - very dark- about it; > <•: ; Mount Blano was scaled twice m ona "Week lately by the wife ■of the hero of 1 The Ride to -Khiva, 1 Mrsßurnaby, by two different routes, one of which obliged her to spend the night m the snow. : Two. English ..girls are romping with . boisterous, laughter m a hotel at Nice. ■ Then comes the shocked matron : 'For heaven's sake' Mabel, don't. ! They' 1 .?" 1 ' take you. for brite of ; thbtie horrid American girls*' <)n eof this sweetly designated , class, chanoin^jto overhear, ' says gently : 'I guess not, with those awfully big feet. 1 The Bost regrets the discontinuance of the Takapuna eXpresk. service, ns rather a come down for the Empire City.