Bath Chaps.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 150, 4 November 1868, Page 3

Bath Chaps.

" Councillors Sheppard and Tombs looked unon a public balh as a luxury, and the Council had no right to expend its funds iv luxuries " — (Vide Press.) Why b ; d tbe Councillors go seek tbe washing tub, Dooming them thus to bear another rub ? yvt cleatiliut-ss with all our notions jumps ; f-'Must they who offer water needs be pumps ? : No ! let us cherish earg -rly the hopy, They'll make us all much heater off for soap ; j Yet, if a Councillor ah'-uld cross our path, ; Must we in future bid him "go to Bath ?" Oh 1 might he not reply in language proper, , " We do not need the baths, we want our copper ?" A Sweet Thought. If you dippe ' your head in treacle, would you call it in-cunsistency ? i Thosh who have Glass Houses, &c. I Mr Lewis said he would still subscribe even for the Worcester sireet route but according to some people, if the bridge is taken over the river *at this point, the farmers will make use of it to go " South about." | Moral — Erring mortals often desire thnt : whi li, when granted, proves their greatest j calamity. ! What are the members of the Chnmbt-r of . Commerce going to do with imported frogs ? Get them Cooked immediately. KXAMINATION PAPEUS (I ST. CLASS). ' Achkr >N — A river in Kpirus, which was called by Homer one of tbe rivers of a certain naughty locality. ihe superstition is supposed to have arisen from its beint: the practice of the Greeks to throw all their condemned plays into lt. The excessive black ness of the water might also bi* accuunted for by the great quantity of ink that thus became mixed up with it. Professor Ayers s-iya the only genuine pig-tuil and slu-rt-cut in the market, is to be obtained at his establishment. The Professor having just given a Chinaman a close crop. Why ia one of the '* Times " nigger minstrels appropriately named ? Because he's a Carder and combs his wool.