Brevities.

Otago Witness, Issue 1421, 15 February 1879, Page 21

Brevities.

A Singular Being — A bachelor. Still Life — Manufacturing whisky. A Coat of Mail — A postman's uniform. The Greatest Strike of the Day— Twelve o'clock. Those that We Miss— Girls, till they are married. Who Mrs once to take a kiss has Mr thing he should not Miss. Let well enough alone ; if thy husband is a good man, try not to improve him lest he become a better. " Weight for the wagon," observed the farmer as he helped his throe-hundred-pound wife to a seat in the vehicle. Fibst bather — " What are all these things I feel at the bottom ?" Second bather—" Torpedoes, mister." — Boston Courier. "Do Fishes go Crazy?" is a conundrum proposed by Seth Green. Sometimes they get in Seine. — New Haven Register. What sort of a consulting doctor ought a railway passengers' assurance company to have ?" An acci-dental surgeon. The present evil is often the husk in which Province has enclosed the germ of future prosperity. Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record. The mind that lies fallow but a single day sprouts up in follies that are to be killed only by constant and assiduous culture. Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. A child asked : " Mother, what is an angel ?" "An angel? Well, an angel is a child that flies." "But, mother, why does papa always call my governess an angel ?" " Well," explained the mother, after a moment's pause, " she is going to fly immediately,"