KIBBLINGS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8764, 28 April 1890, Page 4

KIBBLINGS.

A little nonsense boy and then. Is relished by th» wisest men.

An Autumnal advantage. — First Seedy Dude: "I like cool weather for one thing" Second Seedy Dude : " What's that?" 1 First Seedy Dude: ''Toucan button your coat up to your chin without creating the suspicion that it is the absence of a clean eh rt that forces you to do it."

At the Jardin dee Plantes. — A constant visitor(to the keeper of the giraffe): "It seems to me that, dnring the last six months, the aniuml has lost flesh a good deal." Keeper. "Well, you see, she was jeaioud of the Obelisk when she first came here, and now the Eiffel Tower has been too much for her."

Epicure : " Waiter, thh steak is positively bad. It must be three weeks old." Waiter : " Ab, pardon, monsieur ; 1 have made ze mistake, and have brought you ze venison." Epicure: "Venison? Oh, yes. Than you may leave it. (Tastes it.) Ah to be sure,*it is venison ; and very nice, too — very nice, indeed." Conk : " Horo's some eels, mum, that tho bye has just brought. Fwhat Bhall I do wid 'em to kill Vm ?" Mistress, utterly unpractical : " Oh, the poor things. Why, tbey muat be alive. Tell Thomas to get a bucket of water nnd drown themI've heard that drowning causes lees suffering than any other way of killing."