VARIETIES.
When the poet wrote, " Superfluous ' Jags » the veteran on tho stage," was tho meaning that lio transports his audienco ? Wo think not, and that the transportation should bo of the old boro. X Stays were qulto unknown in RusMa until Peter tho Great .danced with aomo llnnorerian ladies on bin journey to Pomerania. Quite astonished, the monarch exclaimed to bis suite after tho ball, " What confoundedly hard bonta these German women have," Wo often bear the expression, •' a radical wron?." Query— Was a Radical ever known to bo right ? What sort of health ought a land-surveyor to enjoy? — Why, "rood" health, to bo sure. " The Queen* English." Of course she is, "in thought, word, and deed 1 " A paw creature— Tho cat. A TnOVERB AND A I'BF.n. Is noblesse oblige counted a rulo to judge Peers by ? Not a word about that to Lord Willoughby d'Kresby J yJOroRfIiH'f.F.SH, — Mr Charles Ma thews is said to be tho father of tho following jeu d'eaprit on hippophagy : "If horseflesh won't aufflco to feed the masses, Tho next resource will certainly be asset ; And Heaven only knows whero that will end! Somo peoplo won't bavo left a single friend."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 31, 18 June 1868, Page 3
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197VARIETIES. Star (Christchurch), Issue 31, 18 June 1868, Page 3
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