VARIETIES.

Lasting a Lifetime.

Mrs. Crabshaw: “What do you mean by cheating me like this? You said this chain I bought here would last a lifetime, and here is all the plating worn off in a month.”

Goldskin: “Madam, I said dot shain vould last you a lifetime pecause when you puy it you look so sick I didn’t t’ink you vould live der veek oudt.”

Life is Short.

As shadows cast by cloud and sun

Flit o’er the summer grass,

So in Thy sight, Almighty One,

Earth’s generations pass;

And as the years, an endless host,

Come swiftly pressing on,

The brightest names that earth can boast

Just glisten and are gone.—Bryant.

Absurd Names.

Amongst absurd names which have been recorded at Somerset House within recent years, we have the following, of which few people would like to be the bearers:—

“That’s it, who’d have thought it?” “Is it Maria?” “Bovril,” “Sardine,” “Ananias,” “Judas Iscariot,” and “Man Friday.”