MIXED PICKLES
lienis suitable for insertion under this head are invited from readers in town or country.
It is not good to compliment an English maiden on her " blooming cheek."
Fowls are charged 4Jd a pair per 100 miles on the New South Wales railways. Members of Parliament are carried free.
A physician says: " If a child does not thrive on fresh milk, boil it." He does not say how long the child should be boiled.
A French gourmand says : " Appetite is the most ungrateful thing in the world ; the more you do for it the sooner it deserts you." Bracelets of old coin are now very fashionable; but the attempt to beat a pair of handcuffs for real style and durability will always be a failure.
A paper announces that Mr Kenny, returning to town, fell down and broke his neck but happily received no further injury. Fortunate !
Ruth Maynton has got into trouble at Hobart through appearing at large minus her garments. They don't admire the " naked Ruth " in Tasmania.
" Avoid that which you would blame others for doing," says one of our wise men. Well, tilings have come to pretty pass if a man can't kiss his own wife.
" All things come to him who waits," says the proverb, but the man who, after waiting half an hour, discovers that the last tram has gone, is not a believer in it.
" Look at me I" cried a. temperance orator who was addressing a crowd from the roof of a beer barrel near the wharf the other day. "To what do I owe my present position?" "To beer, by thunder !'' exclaimed a lumper, coming up. "An* I'll have to trouble you for that cask." The orator got off.
The large landowners in the Wairarapa district are doing their utmost under the Babbits Act to exterminate their neighbours — the cockatoo small farmers. The Star accuses them of breeding rabbits on their grounds, hunting them to the small farms, and then getting the Act put in force. It is well known that there are no rabbits to speak of in districts settled exclusively with small or moderate farms. The best way to exterminate rabbits is to exterminate land monopolists.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TO18890914.2.46
Bibliographic details
Observer, Volume 9, Issue 559, 14 September 1889, Page 17
Word Count
369MIXED PICKLES Observer, Volume 9, Issue 559, 14 September 1889, Page 17
Using This Item
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in