Traveller.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 412, 7 April 1904, Page 7

Traveller.

FEOM INDIA: JUGGLES OB HYPNOHST? WoJKANY wonderful stories have been MOT told of the powers of Indian JKs* conjurors, bat the following, from toe 'Humanitarian/ probably takes the cake' . ' When in India I made the acquaintance of * juggler, who tried to instruct me in big tricks. He said that it was all imaginary on the part of the spectators,

Voice from the Doorway: ' Mary, what are yon doing oat there P' Mary: ' I'm lookiag at the moon.' Voice from the Doorway: 'Well, tell the moon to go home and yon come into the bouse. If s half-past eleven.'

The train, as usual, crawled along—you know the line—and then stopped doad. •Guard,' shouted a jovial passenger, ' may I get oat and pick some flowers P' ' Afraid you won't find many about here,' said the guard, good-humouredly, • Oh, there'll be heaps of time,' replied the jovial one, «Pve brought a packet of seedel'

'1 notice that you and Charles no longer play ping-pong.' ' No,' replied the demure damsel. 'We don't care very much for the game that keeps as at opposite ends of a table.'

Hasbin: 'What do the letters 'B.A.' after a college graduate's name stand forP'

Neverwas: 'Bachelor of Athletics,' I guess.'

'I tell yon, I'll be master of my house when I'm a man I 1 said little Binnie.

'Thafs what your father thought when he was your age, Binnie, 1 replied the boy's mother.

'Little boy, can I go through this gate to the river ?' politely inquired a very stout lady. ' P'r'aps so; a load of hay went through this morning,' was the horrid reply. Dearborn: ' Did yon ever win a prize in a lottery P" Wabash: 'No; and I've been married four times.*