Brevities.

Otago Witness, Issue 1461, 15 November 1879, Page 20

Brevities.

Frequently above par— His hat. Loat at sea— Thesight of land. Noah's arc — The rainbow. ' Go to sea in a canoe if you seek wreckreation. The fisherman is a tryangler sort of a fellow. > Of course, women can keep a secret, but it takes a good, many of them to do it. The way the earth "laughs with a harvest " —Hoe ! Hoe ! Hoe ! The cry of the chiropodist—" I came, I saw, I corncured." What will you probably do if you fall down a well? Kick the bucket. The man who. chased a sailor said he was making a tar get. Napoleon said that bayonets think, and we all know Pike's Peak. " Are you a wall flower ? " he asked, and she replied, " No, I am a wall sir." Then they waltzed. ' , The old woman who made her fortune predicting the weather by a goose bone found it a perfect bone-anser. There is nothing so deceiving as the orange peel, and nothing so real as the sidewalk under lit. | |We once enjoyed the music of afdrum, says the Boston Post. We know our enemy over the way had a baby to put to sleep. The iady who goes away for her health and takes five trunks begins to decline ia weight the minute she discovers that another lady has brought mx. It is said that there are only eight persons who bear the name of Bonaparte. The list has i not been revised since a coloured man named Napoleon Bonaparta was hanged recently in Mississippi. A lady in Maine bos a canary bird fifteen, years old, juet about .the age of the average boarding house spring chicken. — Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald.

"Do you think," asked Mrs Pepper, "that a temper is a bad thing in a woman ?'' " Certainly not, ma'am," replied a gallant philosopher. "Itia a good thing,, and she ought never to lose it." There is a place in New Hampshire where they never have any old maids. When a girl reaohea twenty-nine, and is still on the ladder of expectation, the young fellows club together and draw lpts for her. Those who escape pay a .bonus to the one .who gets her.