Miscellaneous.

Wairoa Bell, Volume IV, Issue 151, 24 June 1892, Page 6

Miscellaneous.

There is a man in Colorado who signs himself 4 T. Pot., It is said that the least thing makes him boil over. A San Francisco' ladies’ shoemaker advertises himself as one of the lumiharies of ‘ the sole her system. Says a recently-published song, 4 What is home without a mother ?’ In the first year of married life it is a very nice sort of place. ‘ Can temperance hotels live V It was the opinion of the late Artemus Ward that they couldn’t, because they always sold such poor whiskey, Johnny lost his knife. After searching in one pocket and another until he had been through all without success, he exclaimed, 4 Oh, dear 1 I wish I had another pocket ; it might be in that,’ A Policeman swore as follows against a prisoner .- ‘ The prisoner set on me, calling me an ass, a precious dolt, a scarecrow, a ragamuffin, and an idiot—all of which I certify to be true.’ The kind of verses that are read in a Kentucky school exhibition : “ Go, my son, and shut the shutter” This I heard a mother utter. “ Shutter’s shut,’ the boy did mutter ; “ I can’t shut it any shutter.” As a Scotch divine was seated one dav on the parapet of the old Stirling Bridge, two young officers from the Castle made up to him. Having resolved to enjoy a joke at his expense, one of them addressed him : “ Your occupation’s gone, sir. Have you heard the song--4 Some say the deil’s dead, And buried in Kirkcaldy ? 4 ln case it’s true,’ was the response, ‘ let’s pray tor twa puir fatherless bairns.’