KIBBLINGS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8641, 29 November 1889, Page 4

KIBBLINGS.

A little nonsonße now »nd then. Is relished by the wisest men. Accepted suitor: " Won't you find it awkward whon yoa muet your other two hnsbamls in Jiciiven ?" Int(-restini^ Widow: "I do not expect to meet either of them thera." He : " How beautifnl and poetic are Borne of tho old Indian words. Minnehaha, for instance, or Alabama." She : " Yes, and Kiseimee." What happened after that is not reported. Mrs. Muggins reading : "Every man gets the wife that Heaven intends for him." Mr. Muggins mnsingly: "It must be true then that men are punished in this world for their sins." Double Tragedy.—Husband (at the opera) : " See how pale Mrs. Upwell is. I never saw her so affected by tragedy before." Wife (sagaciously): "It isn't that: her back hair is coming down." "Is there any mail for me here ?" asked Miss Crowsfeet a few days after she had arrived in Hayseedville. "No," said the postmaster, with a smile, and without looking into the pigeonhole. Spriggß: " How much older is your Bister than you, Johnny ?" Johnny: "Maud used to be tveoty-five years, then she was twenty, and now she ain't only eighteen. I guess .ve'Jl soon be twins." The greatest affront you can offer to fi woman is too tell her she is old. Lord A , a courtier, used to say to hie lady every New Year's Day, " Well, madam, what age will your ladyship be pleased to bo this year ?"