ODDS AND ENDS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 19, 19 July 1906, Page 38

ODDS AND ENDS

As in the best proportioned person the muscles on the right, side are somewhat stronger than those on the heart side, you can safely wager that any man, blindfolded, will not walk to a point across any considerable space ; he will infallibly be diverted to the left, so as to describe a circle. Nevertheless, there have been cases where a blindfolded man has gone to a goal without many divergences. Without a guide, no blind man could nrnceed to any point from where he starts, whatever his intelligence.

•An old gentleman, who prides himself on saying the light thing at the right time, was not very successful when proposing the health of the happy pair at a wedding breakfast up north the other day. After saying as many nice things as possible about the bride, and using a score or so of adjectives to describe her oharms, he turned his attention to the bridegroom, of whom he said :— And as for the bridegroom, I can speak with still more coniidence of him, for I was present at his christening, I was present at the banquet given in honor of his coming of age, I am present here to-day, and I trust I may be spared to be present at his funeral.