KIBBLINGS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9266, 16 December 1891, Page 4

KIBBLINGS.

♦ A little consanie vav and then. Is; dished by th* wisart men. Moneybags : " How did your banquet gooff, Banklurk?" Banklurk : "Not as well as it might, you know. Tbe toastmaster called on a gentleman who had loat an arm and a lee to answer to the toast I Our absent members.'" A man who married a widow has invented a devioe to cure her of "eternally ' praißing" her former hußband. Whenever she begins to disoant on his noble qualities, this ingenious number two merely says, • *' Poor dear man I How I wish he had not . died 1" and the lady immediately begins to ihink of something else to talk about. i. Judge : "And what did the prisoner say when yoa told him that you would have him arrested ?" Complainant: "He anBwered mechanically, yer honor." Judge : II Explain." Complainant: "He hit ;nae on the head with a hammer." Mr Trotter (tc himself) : "As I will be at the offiqo until 9 o'clook this evening, I think I shall send Alice a tolegram explaining matters." As he enters the house at 10 o'clook, his wife of a month throws herflolf into his arms. " Ob, Tom," Bho weeps, holding out a yellow envelope, " this horrid tolegram came to-day, and I have been afraid to open it lest it should rooutnin bad news 1 Wnat in the world has bo ?"