MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 7 June 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

♦ • The Vagabond ' says thai (our sets of judges for colonial beer bare been vied up at the Sydney International ExhibU ! tion. Two men are in the Lunatic Aij« lam, three are hopeless drunkards, and, one is paralysed. * I hate your perfect men. I never was so badly cheated in my life as I once was by your * perfect * men. He had got to far up in morals that he couldn't see the rules of common honesty. These men who go prowling around prayer meeting!, telling how much like saints they arelook out for them ; keep your hands on your pocket-books. The 'higher life* man o p a certain class, who goes round with a bible under his arm, and who rushes into the counting*room of a mer* chant who is adding a column of flgutea, and exclaims, ' How's your soul F is » nuisance. He makes religion a dote of ipecacuanha. I tell you a roaring rois* teriog, bouncing sinner isn't so repulsive to me as one of that sort of higher-life men. — Talmage. A correspondent gives the following bint to New Zealand landowners: — It may interest some people to knot* bow" landlords who are not English treat th%tr tenants. Messrs Hagin and Carr are American holders of a * Mexican grant ' in Kern county, California. The grant 1 was for 15 pqiare leagues, and comprises about 90,000 acres of splendid land, mostly open valley land. They do not wish to sell at present, so they rent it on the following terms, in lots of 160 to 640 acres :— They build a house, barn, and outbuildings, furnish seed, provisions. &c. Tor the set'ler, until he can supply him* self, and if need be a portion of the team. aa-? on the bush land on'y asks a return of tie outlay from the crop of the farmer the fourth year. On clear l«nd ready for the plough one fourth of the crop, and a return of the advances made within three yeqrs.' To this the correspondent adds j But then they know nothing of the custom of feudal tenures, and are satisfied trilh moderate returns and happy and contented tenants.' This is how different people think on the same subject. Percy Incipient, languidly conversing with Paterfamilias at a largely and brilliantly attended pvpiing party not long since : •* FTaw-^ I don't agwee with you at all. I think the | wesent style of dress for young ladies is splended. Haw— you know-en aetly— haw— now what sort of a .girl you are looking at — no sham or makeup} but— ha ! ha ! —almost the naked troth itself, you know j they spe or three or fonr prominently decolletee hut extremely charming young ladies, whose well exposed figure* seemed to be in danger of escaping entirely from the fragile bonds and bands of millinery which enclosed them : " And do you mean to say, air, that you would like roar sisters, or yon? wife, if you had one, to sppear in such dresses as those ? " " Haw ! well — haw ! Thnt's a different thing, you know ; but I wrally think it's vewy nice for other people's wives and sisters to do so^ha J ha !*