Varieties.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 84, 20 August 1868, Page 3

Varieties.

A A ludy correspondent of the Milwaukic Sentinel, who, writing undor a*No;n da piume, had attiuetcd considerable attention, rooelvud v note from i\ gentleman ndmlror recently, in , which tlu; writer tiniil that a lady who could put .-nich beautiful thought* to piper must bo equally gifted in person, &c, und wanted to moot her by moonlight nlono, to which she 1 wroto n consent. fiho aimo to tlio rcndczvoui veiled i they* walked, ho talked, ho rondo lovci 1 finally gained consent to take ft littlo kiss j 1 the veil wns raised for tho purpose, and tho stricken ffontjenian gazed upon the cptuoly ■ features of his own wife. 1 At a savings bank in America a little news-/ boy, without v jnokct, and only <mo susricndeo , (und IliiU v fttrln^) confronted tho teller ref oondy, Ait') demanded to know whether " Shi was all right f— (mQ.ining tho institution)— becauso If fllio was, ho didn't mean to be 1 scared, if anybody clso was. He'd got 4* cents united down there, nnd nil ho wanted was bin (tho teller^) word of honour that it wouldn't npilc. Tho toiler (mured him that 1 his money was ready for him nt any moment. " Nuff s:iid 'tween Rcn'l'mon ; but I don't want It," rejoined tho youth t and with a self 1 complacent, well-siUlfiflcd air, ho wnlked out of Hid bank, " U she good ?" cried two or three other newsboys, who were awaiting iho result at tho door-step. « Yos, sirrco I" ho replied, "an good as. wheat. Ketoh our bank stop I You don't ketch dia 'cro chtlo a-miikln' an old woman of hUsclf, and drmvln' out bis money —I ain't oo green— A ain't I"