The palmy days of a boy's life are those in which, he gets properly spanked-/, by bis mother.
: A police constable last week had a fit in a tailor's shop in Sackville-street. A rival tailor says that he is the first person that ever did have a fit there. ~,,.. , ...... , ;■ A fortune-teller ' was arrestee! hi Paris, and carried before: the tribunal of correq.-, tional police. " You know how to read fortunes ?" said a man of great wit, bnb rather fond of a joke for a magistrate. "I do, Sir," said the sorcerer. "In this case," said the president, " you know the judgment we intend to pronounce ?" " Certainly." "What will happen to you?" !' Nothing!" . ,"You are, sure, of that?" " Yes; "you will 'acquit' me:" !i; "Acquit you.?"' . "There is no : doubt about it.". "Why?".' , "Because,,, sir, if it had been your intention to condemn me, you would not have added irony to misfortune." The president, disconcerted, turned to his brother Jndges, and th&sorcerer'wasdischarged.
(For continuation of news see fourth page $1
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2985, 19 January 1881, Page 3
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