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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3292, 1 September 1871, Page 3

P 'What a fine head your boy has,' said 5 an admiring friend. ' Yes,' said the father, * ' he's a chip of the old block, ain't you, ray ' boy !' ' Yes, father,' replied the boy I ' teacher said yesterday that I was ' I young blockhead.' I Wai mil. If you would be pungent, be brief ; for t ifc is with words as with sunbeams — the ' more they are condensed the deeper they r burn. 3 Mrs Jones, of Bay City, Michigan, made ; her recusant hubby hand out $50 for a f new dress. She did it with her little ? revolver. New Lisbon, Ohio, has the periodical ' girl that swallows pius and needles and 3 has them taken out of her heel. She has | yielded fifty. > Out in lowa, fishing parties of 20 or 40 s couples take along a brass band to play , 1 on one side of the stream and drive the > fish to the hooks on the other. > The strongest propensity in woman's ' nature, says a careful student of the sex, ; is to want to know what is going on, and the next strongest is to boss the job. ! A philosopher has said, he who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It ] is your cold dissembling hypocrite you , should beware of. There's no deception ) in a bull-dog. It is only the cur that 3 sneaks up and bites you when your back . is turned. ' The Best Revolveb Out. — The world. A Biud ov ill Oaten. — A swallow of brandy. i Bonds Ikuedkemable. — Vaga-bouda. 'Long md Successful Reign.'— The ' deluge. , Curious. — The latest telegrams bring us the ' earliest news.