Spring Notes.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1961, 31 January 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Spring Notes.

In tho flpring the pootoiimbcth blithely up tlie smnotum stair, Whence he t»ke« his exit down tho stairlo'-s Btairway cf tho air. In the ppiing tho guil'slosa fiuhes grab tlic I>a^, (1. c itfnl (1> ; In the cpring the Incklesa fishen doth invent thu drill inn I He. In tho spring Liv In tie onion fjoitcth shjly oul of bod ; In th* Fprint? i livelier bonrrt blootncth on the frmalc head. In the spring thp early picnic makoth doctors' hearty rejoice ; In the spring th^ fpntive ragman shooteth off hiB tbree-ply voice. lVatJiington Star.

41 Summer Boardem Taken In " is tha unwittingly truthful advertisement of & New York fanupr. " Heuottlks " is tho latest name Riven to butter by the Andover students, among whom boarding-house milit is known as"kalsomine." A Chicaoo drummer hai bpen bitten by a Michigan mad dog. Hit! friends aro anxiously waiting to Bee what affect it will have— -on the dog. — Yonkft i Statesman. A girl will go to a dance and waltz several straight hourf withont complaining, bat ask the same girl to wrestle live minutes wit* 1 a broom, and she'll faint before fhe geti both hands fairly clasped around the handle. — Clucaqo Sun. First she is a baby, next * child, then a Kirlet ; next a girl, then a young lady— which she remains a good many years unless she gets married. — Kentucky State Journal.

EI'ITAPn ON MR. BOT. " Hem lies one box within another, The one of wood Wai very good ; We oannot say so mnoh fort' other." There peems to have been no limit to young ward's extravagances. It is declared that he even nought strawberries in January, when they wore worth their weight in gold. What a team he and the luxurious, pearl-eating Cleopatra would hare made I — Troy Timet. An umbrplla caried over a woman, the man getting nothing bat the dripping! of the rain, signifies courtship. When the man has the umbrella and the drippings it indicated! marriage. Many " heavy swells" float on the bill-oweeof credit. Tin- power behind the throne in London is dynamite. BisMuicic, D. T., need not change its name. D. T. can stand for darned tyrant. " Head men tell no tales ; " but t'aie ia not alwa> h true of dead politicians. A prairie farmer reports that a late windstorm lifted about everything from his lands except the mortgage. " Lacoh, and the world laughs with you," Miss Wheeler says. Yep, and slip, and the world laughs at you. At least that has been our experience this winter. " Will you have a email piece of the light meat or a small piece of the dark?" arked Bob's uncle, a* he carved the turkey at dinner. " I'll have a large piece of both," eaid Bob. No, I don't object to the Knell of a cigar," said a widow to her lover. "It reminds me of dear John, who declared that although he didn't like the taito of tobacco he had to smoko to k«ep the moths oat of his mouth." " My dear," Mid Mr. Muokleham to his wife, " those hams I bought the other day are so badly wpoiled they cannot be eaten." " What a pity," his wife replied. " Guesa we'd better send them cut to the charity hospital." A New York car-driver when he wants to clear the track shouts, " Hi, there, hi." A Chicago driver strikes his bell and shoutp, " Shake 'em up then, will yon ? " A Boston driver says, "Deviate from the direct line those equine appendage*, accelerate, accelerate, exhilaration, lively now." — Chicago Inter Ocean. Aa f hay wore trudging along to school, a five-year-old Boston misi said to her companion, a lad of six sommerß, " Were you ever affrighted at the contiguity of a rodent ? " " Nay, forsooth," he replied," I fear not the juxtaposition of the creature, bat dislike its tendenoy to an intimate propinquity." — New York Morning Journal. Daniel Webster once proved that he was the Jiandoomeflt man in Mew England. " Boston." said he, " is the handsomest town in JJeW England, Tremont i« tba handsomest street in Boston, Soollay'tfare the handsomest buildings in Tremont street Christopher Gore's oflice is the handsomest room in Scollay's building, and I am (not?) the handsomest man in Christopher Gore' office — srgo, I am the handsomest man in New England." Hope is the last thing that dies in man, and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are travelling throqgh life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end. — Rochefoucauld. Pnoßi'EiuTY has this property, it puffs up narrow sonic, makes them imagine themselves | high and mighty and look down upon the , world with contempt ; but a truly noble and resolved spirit appears greatest in distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous. — Plutarch' l Livei. Poor and content, is rich and rich enough ; But riches, fincleas, is as poor winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor. \\ — Shaktpeare.