KIBBLINGS.
A. little nonsense now and then. Is relished by the wiseit men.
"Why am I like a pin?" asked M« Jon«B triumphantly of his wife. He expected she was going to say, " Because you are bo shurp," and he was simply paralysed when Bhe responded, " Because if you should get lost it wouldn't be worth while to spend time looking foi you." " We live at the end of a cablegram and calculate our profits by the one-eixty-fonrth of v penny," urged n merchant on one occasion, as a reason for returning to town when being pressed to remain a day longer in the country. The Battle of Life. — Hungry Wanderer (looking in cook shop window) : " Yes, it's all right to talk about the advantages of bsing an animated human being, bat I'd give one year of my life to be that window for hall an hour," An Irishman closed his eyes in front of a looking glass to see how he looked when asleep. A conscript being told it was sweet to die for one's country, said he did not like sweet things. A judge addressed a prisoner: "You are to be hanged, and I hope it will bo ;i warning to you." There are over 7,000,000 pores in the human body, and yet we are surprised beennsn some men nre sponeea.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8638, 26 November 1889, Page 4
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