Varieties.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 40, 30 June 1868, Page 3

Varieties.

♦ ■ A Man or Mbt-ai..— A Knight In armour. Pride Is a vice whoso name is comprehended In a monosyllable, but in its naturo not circumscribed by n world. > Labours of tho body free us from palu of tho mind. This la what constitutes tho happiness of tho poor. >*Tl*o best service that wo can render to the world is to mend ourselves $ if each mends ono, all will bo mended. ' Counteraction— a balancing provision of naturo for tho prevention of excess, whether in morals or mechanics, f I suppose ovcrybodv lias heard of tho Irishman who said ''Tho most eloquent featuro in a dog's faco was its tail." tfydnoy Smith said to an ex-M.P. for Edinburgh, that all ho wanted to mako him perfect was a few brilliant dashes of silence. A lady meeting a girl who had lately left hor'sorvlco, inquired, "Well, Mary, where do you live now ? "—"Please, ma'am, I don't live nowhere now," rojoined tho girlj -"Tin married."

A BoT'e Idra op Potirso x Tooth.— The doctor bitched on to me, nulled his best, and just before ho killed me the tooth came out. Many regard thomsolves as moral, didtftcreatcd, truthful, and gentle, merely because thoy inexorably Insist that others shall ba so. X* Do you know, air," said Bonassus to a humble friend, "Jthat I am worth one hundred thousand pounds?" "Yes," said tho irritated but not broken-spirited respondent, " I do i nnd I know it is alt you are worth I " It is related of two old Scotch ministers that tho one asked the other if he was not sorely tempted at times to go fishing on the Sunday afternoon. ° 6h, man," replied his fellow-labourer, " I'm never tempted lang ; I just gang,"Come to the Point.-- A Yankee youth and a pretty girl sat facing each other at A husking party. Tho youth, smitten with the charms of the maiden, only ventured a shy took, and now and then touched Patty's feet under the tablo. Tho girl, determined to mnko tho youth express what he appeared so warmly to feel, bore with these advances a little while in silence, when she cried out, " Look here I if you love me, say ao, but don't dirty my stockings." A New York police-officer, soeing a nigger whom ho knew, exclaimed, '* Ah Sambo, yea aro an honest, faithful fellow, 1 will give you a drink,"— " Wid all my heart, sar," said Sambo j " wid all dis child's heart. Soma niggers are hauty and proud, and wont stoop to drink wid a police-officer; hut dat'fl wrong. I tink » pollire-offlcer most, If aot ebery way, m good aa a nigger — 'specially when that nigger's dry."