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New Zealand Herald, Volume XI, Issue 3824, 13 February 1874, Page 3

Love matches are often formed by people who pay for a month of honey with a life of vinegar. Mrs. Partington thinks that tho grocers ought to hire u music teachev to teacli them the scales correelly. BUS3XKESS-LIKE.—A lovely wife in New York, on the death of her husband, sent the following thrilling telegram : " Dear John is dead ; loss fully covered by insurance." The editor of a Frcdericksburg (Vir»inia) paper was asked by a stranger "if it was possible that little town kept up four newspapers," and tho reply was " So, it takes four newspapers to keep up the town." A citizen of Connecticut, recently introduced to a newly married man, congratulated him warmly, and said—"Ah, these Lichfield county girls make clever wives : I've had three of em."