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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 971, 9 December 1879, Page 2

A Doubtful Complaint. — 'Sir ftarn«t Wolseley, sorr,' said a gallant Irish officer, ' was the man to send to the Cape. Badad, that Garn«t is a Cape diamond. Here is a conundrum eiven the other evening at a fashionable gathering : I Why are ladies like churches ?—Numerous guesses were made, but none present arrived at the correct solution. After, repeated failures, the youthful inquirer thus elucidated the reply : In the first place, because there is no living without them ; secondly, we notice many a-spire to them ; thirdly, they are decidely objects or adoration ; and lastly but not leaatly, because they have a loud clapper m their upper story." A man was seen coming out of a Texas newspaper office with one eye gouged out, his nose spread all over his face, and one oar chawed off. To a policeman who interviewed him replied : — " I didn't like an article that appeared m the paper last week, a' I went to see the man who writ it. He war there, stranger. " A Fort Madison man went home the other evening and found his house looked lip.. Getting m with considerable difficulty at the window, he found on the table this note ffom his wife— "I have gone out you will find the door-key on one side of the doot-step. "