NOTA BILIA

Observer, Volume 2, Issue 32, 23 April 1881, Page 342

NOTA BILIA

— The latest journalistic venture in Cincinnati is a penny paper with, no name. It goes wherever there is one sent. — She who buys what she does not want will soon want what she cannot buy. Therefore get only what .you really require at Munro & Milligan's Drapery Establishment, Karangahape-road. — The Baroness Burdett-Coutts has presented her husband with a magnificent stud of thoroughbred, hunters. Her affection for him is a stable one. — The printed catalogue of newspapers and magazines issued by the New Zealand General Agency, conducted by J. C. M. Karsten and Co., High-street, is worth perusal. — When a man rises up in a gin mill and says the whole crowd present are liars, they call him an imprudent man. He generally has a bang-up funeral, too. — It is a sign of wisdom to he willing to receive instruction. So be wise, all readers of the Obsekver, and purchase your tobacco from Partridge & Wollains. Their brands are all good. — ' 'What is your wife's particular little game?'* asked a friend of a henpecked husband. "When she gets thoroughly mad," he answered, "it's draw poker." — He who givetli his thoughts to charity carries the key of Heaven, and he who eats bread made with Hudson's Baking Powder carries the key of an easy digestion. — A chivalrous exchange thinks when a man marries a widow he should give up smoking. "She gives up her weeds" — he should be equally polite. — One had better be cheated agreeably than pass one's life in watching not to be cheated. But there is no fear of your being cheated if you purchase your boots from the establishment of Messrs. Garrett Bros., Wakefield-street. — When a man loses all his plate by fire or thieves, he bewaileth his loss. But when that plate was only electro-plate, he goeth at once and purchaseth a fresh supply at a cheap rate from Singleton's electroplating establishment in Victoria-street. — The jovial appearance of some of the Volunteers at the Review caused some one to enquire the reason ; "Oh I" replied the questioned individual, "they have been teaching the natives how to make Harry Eichmond's ' Eye-slinger.' " The Industrial Exhibition now open at the Albert Hall, Darby-street, is really worth a visit. The Exhibition consists of mechanical models, made by Mr. Gordon Giles, showing an amount of skill, ingenuity, patience, and perseverance that is hardly to be belioved unless witnessed, and the whole of which reflects the highest credit on the exhibitor.