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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2092, 15 July 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

A Clever Characterization.— Jean Ingelow thus speaks of national liumor : “ Of all wit and humor written in Knglish we remember that of the Scotchman longest and laugh at it least. He has most wisdom and most malice. The Irishman’s is most perfect and the best shaded with pathos. It is the least recorded, for it belongs in general to the nature of repartee and needs for setting the occasion that called it forth. The American's is the most various, and he is always unexpected, He takes the victim into his confidence, and with suave audacity. gets the better of him over and over again. He is good at contrast, but bis forte is in the impossible.” Toothsome Cobwebs.— Zisca, the great and victorious reformer of Bohemia, was blessed with such an exquisite palate, that, when asked what share of the gastronomic plunder would please him, replied “ The cobwebs—give me only the cobwebs which hang from the roofs of the farmers’ houses.” These “cobwebs,” however, turned out to be hams, gammons, sausages, and pigs’ checks, for which Bohemia was always celebrated. Lovely Woman-—ln all matters save one, women are quick enough; they know the rights of a story before they hear it, and can tell a man what his thoughts arc before he knows them himself. Bat they cannot judge the men who make love to them,