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New Zealand Herald, Volume X, Issue 2908, 24 May 1873, Page 3

Pestered with " contributions in verse" from a persistent rhymester till bis patience gave out, an American editor wrote to ais correspondent thus :—"lf you don't stop Bending u>e your sloppy poetry, I'll prinL a piece of it some day, with your name appended in full, and send a copy to your sweetheart's father." That poetical fountaiu was spontaneously dried up. SnoßTENisa x Telegram.—A gentleman took the following telegram to a telegraph otlice :—" Mrs. Brown, Liverpool-street.—l announce with grief the death of uncle James. Come quickly to read will. I believe we are liia heirs.—Jjl'.n Black." The clerk, having counted the words, said, " There are two words too many, sir." " All right, cut out " with grief," was the reply. SstTD Noses.—Ladies whose misfortune it is to have snub noses may take courage. Tennyson lias discovered a delicate way of alluding to their allliction. The snub or turuup proboscis is no longer seen. It is " tiptilted," Yh us: — " Lightly iv.-.slur slender nose Tip-tilted, like tho petal of a flower."