Another Ball-room Tragedy.

Observer, Volume X, Issue 607, 16 August 1890, Page 4

Another Ball-room Tragedy.

It was a s?ene of revelry, of mirth and joyous song, And jewels bright shed rainbow light amid the happy throng, A galaxy of loveliness shone through that Northern hall ; But where was she I longed to see" Belle of the Bakblox ball ? Par from the pleasure-seeking crowd my soul's delight had strayed, As if some hidden grief to shroud beneath the pine trees' shade, 5 Oh, tell me,' I exclaimed, * sweet girl, why on thy brow doth care Its gloomy pinions thus unfurl ; why is it present there P' Forth burst the tears in pearly tide, wetting her nose, sweet one, When, looking straight at me, she cri<»\, ' My bustle's gone, my eon.'

A man waited until he was eia-hty -three years old before he got married. That's like running three miles to get a good start for a fourteen ino.h jump. If your laugh is loud it is low. But if ifc ia low it isn't ? m- c Kn 2 lisu language is a fine structure, but when Tim Doolan wishss to talk straight logic we observe that he generally uses Irish. T. B. O. T. D. A. F T.T. S. O.T.L.T. merely stands j for the Toronto Branch of the Dominion Alliance for the Total Suppression of the Liquor Traffic. It is a temper- * anee society with an intemperate title. School Mann:"' Now, little ones, what animal is it that has four legs and lives in the house with the family and often makes a dreadful noise when people want to sleep ?' Master Tommy : ' I know. The piano.' A South Australian caper records the melting fact that 'Miss Senna, the well-known schoolmistress, is going to give up keeping school.' From which we infer that there's not any more school left for her to keep, probably owing to the dear little toddlers having taken an overdose of senna ! The Chinese residents of Victoria have contributed five shillings apiece to the Lying-in-Hospital. The collector explained to them that it is not usual, in Olistian countries, to bury new-born babies among the cabbagee, as they do in China. Ifc is pleasant to find the Celestials awakening to their duty towards these ' little responsibilities.' The following coaxing advertisement appeared in the Melbourne Age a little while ago : — r IZZY, dear, come home or go to Aunty at once ; police XJ aft'-r you with warrant. t If this gentle method of enticement has no effect on dear Lizzy ' we would advise her bereaved relatives to take severe measures.