INCONVENIENCES OF A SHORT MEMORY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 685, 4 June 1875, Page 4

INCONVENIENCES OF A SHORT MEMORY.

—o — Mr Gooley’s memory is exceedingly treacherous,-and it often gets him into trouble. The other night he was at a party at Smith’s, and while the company sat round the supper-table Cooley suddenly concluded that he would eject a conundrum ho had heard somewhere, and so, in an interval of silence, he said “ I’ve got a pretty good conundrum I’d like you to guess. Can anybody tell me why a tl nggist who keeps his bottles down stairs is like a certain kind of musician 1 !” Everybody at once began to guess the answer, and Cooley sat there for a moment smiling. Presently, however, he thought he would get the answer ready in order to give it, and to his intense alarm found that he had forgotten it. The company gave it up one after the other, and as they did so each one asked Cooley what the answer was. At last lie exclaimed—“ The ah—the—ah—the fact is that—the affair—that is, the conundrum the whole thing, “ pon honor.” Then everybody said they didn’t see anything very amusing about jokes of such a character, and Smith frowned ; while Cooley heard the man next to his neighbor say that he, Cooley, must be drunk. Then Cooley rose suddm'y from the table and bol.edout through th) front door. About two houis afterwards, while he was in 1 ed, all at once he run mbered the answer, and instantly arose and went round to Smith's. After ringing the door bell for half an hour, old Smith put his head out of hisbehorm window. “ 1 know it now,” shouted Cooley—“ I know it; it is because he has a vial-in-cellar." Smith shut the window with a slam and went back to bed. A'id now the Cooleys don’t speak to the Smiths, and old Cooley carries the answers to his conundrums written on his shirt-cuffs when he goes into company, so as to be certain that he will have them when they are wanted.—American paper.

It is maintained that the most inspiring natural sight which a glazier can contemplate is the gleam o£ early day breaking through the windows. Cautious.—A reporter, in speaking of a man whoso two legs had been cut off by a railway train, says, “Ho will probably be a cripple for life.” A man may properly ho said to have been drinking like a fish when ho finds ho has taken enough to make his head swim. Brigham Young, who has been sick, has sufficiently recovered to ait up and marry occasionally.