Brevities.

Otago Witness, Issue 1417, 18 January 1879, Page 21

Brevities.

Not Sound Securities. — Musical notes. People of settled convictions. — Prisoners. Suitable dower for a widow.— A widower. Latest Intelligence.— The thoughts of what you might have done. Men of letters.— Corresponding secretaries and sign painters. Take care of the poor Indian and he'll take hair off the white man. >• The Hindoo widow is the only one that cremates, the others remate. For long " billed " birds.— A quack cannot be called a duok and a doctor. The worst kind of minds are those who do not care when they see others doing wrong. The kind of dentists this country wants is those who extract teeth without payin'. It is noblerto endure the hunger of poverty than the craving of covetousness. Dr Holmes sayß that crying widows marry. There is nothing like wet weather for transplanting. A lady, joking about her nose, said : " I had nothing to do in shaping it. Ii was a birthday present." Whw may a. man's friends naturally suppose that he has gone amissing ? When he has gone a-courting. Critics. — Those who more frequently judge of books by their authors than of authors by their books. He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility. Medical Examination.—" What is there beBides ether and chloroform to produce unconsciousness ?" Visiting Boy: "A club." Four things are grievously empty. — A head without brains, a wit without judgment, a heart without honesty, a purse without money. Jones, through the lather : " Strange, I never cau grow a good beard, and yet my grandfather had one three feet long." Hairdresser : " Can't account for it, air— uulesß you take after your grandrnqther." -