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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4418, 11 January 1876, Page 3

What it has Come to* —Quite recently a short-sighted husband saw a large bouquet of flowers on a chair, and "wishing to preserve them from fading, placed them in a basin of water. "When his wife saw the " bouquet" half an hour afterwards, she gave one piercing scream, and'fainted on the spot. Her defective-visioned husband had mistaken bonnet, with its abundance of flowers, for a freshly-culled bouquet. The Fashion - .—This is the way an Eastp&per looks at it: —They are ceiting tighter every day. Not that they are not yn ? t at aU thafc > you know. But reauy, m about six weeks, at this rate, they Toh ge l°, ne shirt made f °r =achat all" aL 00 ? mb > if the y want t0 walk thp mv ' who lcnows tut that is Is there ?° pantaloons ' A>- Everlasting Revival.—ln one of the negro churches in Brownsville, Haywood county, Tenn a spirited revival has been progressing daily and nightly since 1864 just 11 years.. Ihe preachers having teen changed, but new ones took their places, and these, with an enthusiastic congregation have been holding the fort against all scoffers and sinners. Easily Explained.—A Titusville philosopher is cudgelling his ounce of brains in an attempt'to understand why a woman can fall in love with a'man who : has a cork leg. Somebody ought to inform him at once in nine cases out of ten a cork leg, is much the most intelligent and incorruptible part of man, and there is now and then a woman who comprehends the fact. - - Scene at a Coffee-stand.—Proprietor to coloured soldier: "JBe kind enough to take a seat over at that little table in the corner." Coloured warrior : '' .Dat's all right. During de rebellion I used to squat on one dead brigadier general and stand my coffee pot on another. I ain't noways pertickler. Gimme some moah sugar."