VARIETIES

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 23 February 1880, Page 2

VARIETIES

Before marriage, affection and perfect tion ; after, rcfleclion and detection. A Nebraska belle is engaged to marry a Mr Lemon. He has promised to be her Lemon aid. You never see a woman button any« thing she can pis, and you will never see a man pin anything he can tie with a string. A young man whose girl lives some distance out of town says his Sunday night walk includes ' two miles and one lap. There's one good thing about these wide belts; they keep tbe human arm from marking the dress. That is, so we have been told. ' A man who rises every day at four o'clock to make enemies, 1 is a description of M. do Girardin, the French journalist, given by a friend. A man never appreciates the keen en joymeni; of fishing on the part of the fish, until he gets his hook well into the ball of his thumb. You might as well back a mule up against a beehive and tell him not to kick as to tell a womam about a wed* ding — and expect silence.