ODDS AND ENDS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 43, 24 October 1907, Page 38

ODDS AND ENDS

- Fqp course,' said the .-optimist,.' •if javnnuig gets into the habit of hunting trouble he's sure to find it.' 'Yes,' replied the pessimist, .'and if he's^so lazy that he alwaysi^ries to -avoid ft it"" win : fihd : him. Sol what's the difference ? ' _^. ' What makes you so late ? ' 'The teacher- kept" me because I couldn't find Moscow on the map of Europe.' 'And no wonder you couldn't find Moscow. It was •burned down in 1812. It's an outrage to treat a child like that.' _ The building of the Western Australian . rabbit-proof fence has been completed after five years' work. The length is 2036 miles, and the cost nearly £250,000. The boundary, riders. report that rabbits exist in thousands', „ on ' tie eastern "side^ -.whichV is denuded, of . vegetation, but there js no- trace of them on the western side. ;, Hundreds, (are "captured and destroyed daily rt by traps at intervals of "five miles along the fence. - ThY mathematics professor was on his favorite hoblyy." ' -Woman is not logical: She may b,e intuitive, but' she lacks man's instinctive exactness ! ' 'Perhaps so,' conceded one 'woman, with suspicious meekness. 1 Now, would you say '" seven and five is eleven " or " seven .'.arid five' are" eleven? " '" 'The. mathematician ~ smiled his- superiority. '- 'I -should say "the sum of seven and five is eleven." ' ' But,' returned the lady, ' you see it's twelve ! ' ~ —