MISCELLANEOUS.
The Gisborne Artillery Volunteers number over one hundred men, and the only gun they have is a broken-down ship's cannon. A lady put her watch under her pillow the other night, but couldn't keep it there because it disturbed her sleep. And there all the time, waa her bed ticking right -underneath her, and she never thought of tiiat at all. Comets are unquestionably intended to answer some good and grand purpose in creation, if we only kiew what So also are women. Comets are beautiful, eccentric, and incomprehensible. So also are women. Comets -June with peculiar splendour, and appear most beautiful at night So also do women. Comets confound the most learned men. also do women. Comets excite equally the admiration of the prince, the philosopher, and the peasant -So also do women. Comets and women, therefore, are closely analogous ; but the nature of each being inscrutable, all that remains for us to do is to view with admiration the one. and to love the other almost to adoration. '
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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1059, 10 March 1882, Page 2
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171MISCELLANEOUS. Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1059, 10 March 1882, Page 2
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