Humour.
CHIFFONS FROM PARIS. (Translated from Lc Figaro.) Reflexion gleamed from the album of an employer : " The labour question is insoluble : when I the working man is out of work he complains ; when one offers him work he refuses it ! " " Yes, Taupin, I will tell you a secret. But can I be sure of your keeping it ? " Taupin, with a "preternaturally solemn air; "Oh yes I lam deaf — and dumb ! " A lady-killeu who had formerly flirted with one of our most brilliant stars calls upon her after a ten years absence. " Hero 1 am," says he, with the air of a conqueror. "I have not forgotten that we left the last chapter of our little romance unfinished." The lady, after contemplating him for a moment : " Ali yes," she replied, handing him his hat and cane, " I think it will be aa well if we pass at once— to the epilogue I "
Two elegant ladies, but at the ago when their appearance demands more than usual care, the one perhaps a little more passd than the other. The first.— "But what is your age, dear ?" The second.—" What does it matter I One is only as old as one looks." The first, (after an examination of a quarter of a second) — " Dear me, I thought you were younger 1 " They were passing in review the actresses of Paris : " How do you like Madam X ? " " She is very little." " That is ! -:i •. What a pity one couldn't say of her : 'Little an 1 f.ood ! " ' Tommy srbk a ::::oi:o : "Oh ! mama I I wish I was like him 1 " "Good <,'i\ieio;!S, child, what an idea. What do you want to bs like a negro for ? " "Because you would never have to wash me then ! " X , a book-lover, who has the most beautifully bound books in Paris, shows hia treasures to a friend. The friend examines, is profuse in hia expressions of admiration, and makes an attempt to open one of the volumns. " i (1 or heavens sake bo careful ! " cries X— — , showing signs of the greatest terror. " What are you doing — you will ruin my beautiful binding ! "
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume X, Issue 2026, 15 September 1883, Page 2 (Supplement)
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