Aktemus Waw> thinks it is a hard thing not to have a wife—no gentle heart to get up in the morning and make the tire. An omnihus was upset lately. One of the imilo liasHi-snjjens was struck with an idea, hut was not seriously injured; and a young lady was carried away by her feelings, but was brought back on a wheelbarrow. When is a man least likely to pursue a straight course ':— When he forsakes the line of duty to follow the bent of his own fancy. Who Is the largest man ? —The lover ; he is a man of tremendous night. The man who threw a chance away picked up an acquaintance immediately after. A vkiend of the celebrated and eccentric duke, Philip "Wharton, met him in London out of the season and complained that the town was empty.— " Yes," he replied ; " but it is always fuller than the •ountry." "You have not a drop of the great Napoleon's blood in your veins," said testy old Jerome one day in a pet to his nephew the Emperor.—"Well," replied Louis Napoleon, "at all events I have his whole family on my shoulders." Consult the Ladies. —'* When lam making up a plan of consequence," says Bolingbroke, " I always like to consult a sensible woman." Bolingbroko was a groat man '.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 133, 16 April 1864, Page 3
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