VARIETIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 2422, 24 December 1875, Page 3

VARIETIES.

An American says— "When a man bas a business that doesn't pay, be usually begins tp look around for a partner to sbare bis looses »witb him." Suspension of the Slavery CSreular is all very well as far as it goes. The next atsp will, of course, bo suspension of she blundering official who framed it. Young mistress (at tbe parlour door): "Blixa, what is the beU .Wing for eo violently?" Cook (below): "IPs onlv me, m'm. I wont yoa down in tbe Mtpben a minute." "I wonder if it's see-sickness that soakaa sailors always a heaving np smhesa!" ex* claimed Aunt Hepxibab, as sbe looked up thoughtfully from ner morning paper. George : " I say, do take oare! Yoa neei-iv shot my father then." Tom: "Sb! don't say anything, there's a good fellow. lake a shot at mine!" Mr Muoklestooe (after missing Ida bird for the twentieth time) : " I say, destine, I do believe the birds are frightened at rae I** Old keeper (blandly) : " Tbey didn't ought to be, sir!" " I don't wish to say anything against tbe individual in question," said a very petite gentleman, " but would merely reran, in the language of the poet, tbat to bim truth ia stranger than fiction." Some persons have expressed empties -bat the Moody and Sankey oampakn ehoold bave oost so muoh money. It should be borne in mind that the operatione wera to include a canvas that was to spread all over London.