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Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 104, 31 December 1872, Page 3

A western damsel has framed the verdict a jury gave in her favour in a suit for breach of promise of marriage, and ba9 lning it conspicuously in her parlour as a frightful warning to all triflers. A physician stopped at the shop of a country apothecary, and enquired for a pharmacopoeia. —" Sir," said the apothecary, " I know of no such fanner living about these parts." The marriage service, in the opinion of an American paper, should be changed to read, Who dares take this woman ? And the groom shall.answer, " I dare." On retiring from business, a wise old man said to his son and successor, " Now my boy, remember that common-sense is the best thing you can bring to bear on every affair of life except love-making." A bookbinder said to his wife at their wedding, " It seems that now we are bound together, two volumes in one, with clasps." —"Yes," observed one of the guests; "one side highly ornamental Turkey morocco, and the other plain calf." The Freemantle Herald occasionally issues an illustration of his Excellency the Governor Weld, which the Express compares to the wrapper of a screw of tobacco. The Herald retorts that the Express is illegally printed on tea-paper, and inquires whether any of the grocery stores in Perth have lost a bale or two.