ENTRE NOUS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1384, 17 May 1881, Page 3

ENTRE NOUS.

— The coat a la tourist, so universally admired, as setting off the proportions of the Missing Link was, I hear, built at borne, from a pattern kindly furnished by William.

— The umbrella appearance of the tail of the coat— which tail by the way is the only one visible on the animal— is perfect.

— I was reading over a list of typographical errors in an old serial the other day. The stories are so old that they have ceased to be copyright, and so I make no apology for introducing some of them here as original and as my own, after the u'-ual fashion of your comic contemporaries.

— One was an announcement in a Ripon paper where a Hue of a report of a public meeting found its way in among the births to this effect : — " On the 3rd mat., at Ellsington, the wife of Mr Terry, of a " son, ho spoke indistinctly, but was " understood to say that on the sth in- " Btant at Bridgate, the wife of Mr " Joseph Lonsdalo, of a daughter."

— There was another from a Glasgow paper. ' ' Last Saturday a poor woman in " King-street wa» safely delivered of one "sergeant, two corporals, and thirteen " rank and file."

— A third came home to my own susceptibilities: a pnssiige in the Psalms; •' Princea have persecuted me without a cause," was misprinted " Printers have " persecuted me."

- Every other topic of conversation has given way before tbe Calico Ball.

— The questions asked in the highways and bye-ways have no longer any reference to the weather.

— Instead they are somewhat of this kind. ' ' What i« going to wear at the Calico Ball."

— There seems indeed such a strong desire to get full information upon this point that I purpose adding to the brief lists furnished last week.

— I may remark that the task of securing the information has been by no means ea^-y ; people are so reticent.

— Tho worthy chief of the Stewards is goiiiij in Lawn Tennis ecmtume, and in that light and airy rig will play the very " dooce."

— " Chawles" has adopted the style of Hariy Li.ston in his immortal but plaintive ballad "Nobody's child."

— Our "cousin" will represent the historical " Rory of the Hills."

— The energetic amanuensis will be disguised as an elder of the kiik.

— The rest of the stewards, with one exception, will go as shuttlecocks to be knocked about by the battledores of the uninvited G.P.

— This exception intends appearing as a football, which will answer the same purpose.

— The "hero of the supplejack" has adopted a suggestion of mine.

—He will chalk his cranium and lunge through the " mazy wait/" as a billiard cue.

— The Y. B. has adopted the heroic but scanty costume of Rob Roy.

— The I 1I 1 youthful and killing " is cultivating a ferocious moustache for the part of Mephistopheles.

— Dr. M has spent a little fortune in linglots and lace, in order that he may sustain fchc iolc of a "gay cavalier."

— Wiilie R will represent the Wild Huntsman of the Hartz Mountains, white kills included.

— Mine Uncle will array himself in the garments of the "(Jletk of Padua."

— Sain will go as " The Changeling."

— This character — I may here remark—is a f.ivorite one, and Sammy will have much competition.

— The ladies' costumes it is not in my power to describe, for the reason that not a word on the subject can be obtained.

— That they will be brilliant and gay may, however, be taken for granted.

— Tho ladies have entered iiito an un - holy alliance to refuse to dance at the Calico Ball with any gentleman in " evening dress."

— The Hall will be gorgeously decorated with bunting and green boughs.

— The supper will be delicious, and if the weather proves to be as salubrious on the night of the Ball as it has been during the last clay or two, the ices will be manufactured on the premises.

— The coucert at Ngaruawaliia was a pronounced success.

— The old gentleman sustained his reputation,

— Am! fairly brought down the house with his "Briton's Home."

— In the glees he had his work cut out for him to keep tho youngsters up to time.

— How little has been heard of the libel case since the onus has been shifted from the original mark.

— Can anybody explain the reason of this ?

— The poor Pseudo-Ethiopians have perished under the blighting influence of the penny-a liner. ***

— But the star of the Magnets is in the ascendant. ♦##

— Five la bagatelle.