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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3208, 25 May 1871, Page 3

People we have not met. — 1 . A Lairdresser who can cut your hair without venturing tomake any cuttingobservations on it. 2. A waiter at a city dinner, whose white gloves are not big enough for either Gog or Magog. 3. Alinendraper's shopman who will be content with selling a lady what she wants, and will not worry herto buy a dozeu things she dosen't want. 4. A Shakespeare commentator who will abstain from twisting simple passages into thoroughly obscure ones. 5. An habitual criminal in the art of punning, who will avoid using a word because he see there is a joke in it. 6. A railway guard or porter of sufficient self control to shut a carriage door without violently banging it. " Now papa, what is humbug?" — " It is," replied papa, ' when ma pretends to be very fond of me, and puts no buttons on my slnrt." Saluting vessels — Smacks. A fit of Passion.— Getting married. The pale of Civilisation. — Pearl powder. Is the Watch by the Rhine made of German BilverP A writer in the " Philadelphia Press cites from memory a speech made in that city by Henry Clay more than 30years ago, in response to the calls of a large crowd i gathered in front of the hotel where he was staying: "Fellow-citizens : You that have wives had better go home to them ; you that have sweethearts had better be enjoying their society, and you that have neither had better go home to your mothers. As for me, I intend to spend the evening in the society of these ladies' — pointing to the parlor of the hotel. Roast beef, serenity of mind, a pretty wife, and cold water, will make almost any man 'healthy, wealthy, and wise.'