News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 78, 29 February 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

i .:;.: - -; :00 ?— ., •! .-• -.- I A receiving tetter~Tbe gossip* Eeuval meetings— The. Courtship oft widower, „.;. .. ..;■■,_. . . ■ JThe moon* like some men, is brjghfrsl. when it is full. ■ . A carpenter is seldom ai handsome ai his wife, because he is generally a deal plainer. ' : Why is the assessor of taxes the best man m the world 1 Beoause he lierer/ underrates anybody. <:; - ■-; •> ' The OdloniAl Secretary, the Hon. Tfle». Dick, L it seriously l indisposed, 'and is m^ . consequence unabl&to attend to his dutie* at. his office, . ■ r Tna beet and most thoughtful editoit; now allow contributors to the waste baa* ket.jto write \on both Bides of the paper. , 1 Angelina' ;' Eating onions not only prevents the lips . from chapping, but usually keeps the chaps from lipping, , All sorts of eleevea are admissible for ladies' (dresses, bujt the coat Bleeve, rouu4 the waist, remains the faTourite.( Happy is the father whose children art so youog that he can delude them into the belief that the precession is »U ther* is of the circus. ''.._"_'" > -- ; ' Pa, why do they oall them high i schools V ' It's I>ecaUßo we pa> so mucil for 'em, my son; "Yod'll understand thossj things better when you get. to be a tax* | payer.'. ;■ .j:,, _ ;; _. ... ... *. V^Ji Biti: said a c'ient to his lawyer, „' you are writing my bill on very rough paper.'. 'Nevermind/ was. the lawyer* : WVlf'i ' it will' have to be filed before it ; coiflfe,a into^ourt.' * . ; "\ ' Jhere's ihy hand V he exclaimed, m a moment of courage and candorj ' and mfr heait is m it.' She glanced at the empty. pa)m;d£ tended towards Jier, and w^xktdiy* replied, ( Just as 1 supposed ; you have no! hearty, • .-; \ : . ,:. ;, . . ... .. Mr Blair eaUmates that /this Colony,, could feed 25,000,000 human beings if xta, resources were pw^erly developed. /■_ Nearly a fourth of the manufacturing, Jabor of the. Colony is employed m saw-* miUa and wqod factories*, . „, • : Xh« total number of;, hands employedj m the Colony m the manufacture otagri** cultural implements' approaches 800, and yet we import antiually about i'IOO.OOOv worth of plant for tilling the soil an<i m its fruits., t . "