Anybody's Column.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 220, 18 September 1869, Page 2

Anybody's Column.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. "Pedestrian " asks -whether the novelty of the bicycle, in any way justifies its owner in driving it along the footpaths to the annoyance of footpassengers. This is a question for the police. " Shakepeare." — Your reasons for going to church are the most extraordinary we ever heard. As far as we can understand them they appear to be, first because other people do, and second to " stare at the girls." Did it ever occur to you that the " girls " might be'much annoyed by ycur rudeness? "Euclid."— We will tell you how to describe a triangle in a quadrangle, in the words of a very old writer, who, upon being asked this same question, replied: "I will show you how to inscribe a triangle in a quadrangle. Bring a pig into the quadrangle, and I will set the college doT at him; then come I and take the dog:by the tail, and the hog by the tail, and so there you have a triangle jn a quadrangle." t - » Spooney."— You are evidently very far gone. " Do we think," you ask "that six times in an evening is too often to dance with the same 'girl.!' Well, we are of opinion that it is quite, often enough, and. that if you exceeded that number of times people' might talk! " Mrs. Gamp."— Certainty, an extraordinary occurrence, but the following which is taken from a late West of England paper is still more remarkably :— •''Madame DA— — a lady 50 years old, who has been married 30 years, recently gave birth to her first childt It was a plump boy, but singular to relate, it possessed; whiskers, moustache and, beard, and each day has to be ;, shared.^; '.'*:'; [P'' : -r ;,.' '-■'• Jr Pp S;.P : . p rSjpYP. P_ r