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Star (Christchurch), Issue 435, 6 October 1869, Page 3

What is the difference between an accepted and rejected lover ? The accepted kisses the misses, the rejected misses tlie kieses. " My dear," said an anxious matron to her daughter, " it is very wrong for young people to be throwing kisses at one another." " Why so, mamma ? I'm sure they don't hurt, even when they hit." A Justice, in rebuking a virago who had been arraigned for nearly scratching her husband's eyes out, said, " You should remember that your husband is the head of the domeatic realm ; indeed, he is your head, madam." " Well, then," screeched the termagant, " haven't I a right to scratch my own head I" OThe "London Correspondent" of the Wesre)*« Morning News mentions a curious fact which may not be known to the public. The Times is now prii ted by new machinery so perfect and so simple that it takes but one engineer and three labourers to print off the whole edition of the Times, which to-day contains twenty pages. The principle of the macMne is that the paper is not cut into sheets before it is printed, but H brought to the machine in a long roll. It passes through the machine, is printed on both sides, anl is divided as it passes out, the whole process being automatic. The idea has lo^g been worked at by eng-neers, but has only lately beeu practically carried out, under the superintendence of Mr Macdonald, the engineer who has charge of the whole Times machinery. The new machine is called the Waiter Press, in honour of the chief proprietor of the Times. It will quite supersede the Hoe machines.— The last night of the great debate taxed the London papers to the uttermost. The Times, which was the only paper that gave Lord Granville's reply in full, and an account of the division, had but fifteen minutes between going tv press and catching the first trains for the country. In tliat fifteen minutes 15,000 copies were printed^