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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 290, 25 April 1889, Page 2

There is only one blessing in this world that is better than a good husband, and that is a good wife.

Women are so fond of trimmings and finery that they even have their tempers ruffled onoe in a waile.

Why is a woman living up two pair of stairs like a goddess ?—Because she Is a second Flora,

A country exchange publishes the following amusing “yarn" :—As the oldest settlers pass one by one away to their long home, their perils, adventures, and hardships, as told by themeelvee, become toned with a certain melancholy interest from the sublime faith they have in the credulity of their hearers and the unrestrained exaggeratime they give to very simple facts, One white-headed old perverter of the truth was a few days ago spinning a yarn about honeygetting in the good old days in the Hutt Valley. “ Forty years ago,” he said, “he felled a pukatea tree, and took out of it thirteen porter hogsheads of honey, and enough wax to fill the old Government brig. The bees were so numerous that, when they settled down again after having been ejected, on the banks of the Hutt river, so many of them fell in that the stream was choked with their bodies, and the stench onLambton-quaj;, where they were washed ashore, was so great that old Rowlands. Tommy M’Kenzie, and the rest of the inhabitants were made so seriously ill that it required an earthquake and some Scotch whisky to put them in order ogein, Ah! the good old times 1”