Varieties.
The three things most difficult are— to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make a good use of leisure. Two Georgia darkies injudiciously tampered with a steam boiler the other day. They were picked up in the next township. The lowa School Commissioners have issued an edict, forbiddiDg lady teachers kissing male pupils "if they- are over 18 years old." j An impudent literary amateur called upon an editor and asked permission to write the fine-art criticisms and the theatrical critiques, as be was in want of something to do. " I am sorry to say that both departments are filled," responded the editor, "but if you really want something to do, you can clean the office windows." The chairman of a vigilance committee which had been appointed to duck an obnoxious citizen in lowa, thus reported to his fellow-citizens : — " We took the thief down the river, made a hole in the ice, and proceeded to duck him ; but he slipped through our hands, and hid under the ice, and as he has been there over eight hours, it is supposed he is drowned."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 699, 19 August 1870, Page 3
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187Varieties. Star (Christchurch), Issue 699, 19 August 1870, Page 3
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