WIT AND HUMOUR.

Dunstan Times, Issue 686, 11 June 1875, Page 4

WIT AND HUMOUR.

An officer in the American army, who was, and is still, more accustomed to the use of the sword than the pen, had two brothers desert whoso names were Kennedy. Thereat the officer wrote an order for a subaltern to take a tile of men and proceed to a place named and take the two Canadas. The order was peremptory and not to be trifled with. The officer looked at his instructions and prepared to obey them, but he remarked that he did not believe he could take more than one of the provinces of Canada without a reinforcement. A capital story used to be told of late David Roberts. An art critic who was his personal friend published a sharp attack upon certain pictures of his just exhibited. “My dear Roberts, wrote the critic in a private letter, “ you may have seen my remarks on your pictures. I hope they will make no difference in our friendship. Yonrs Ac., ,” “My dear ,” wrote the printer in reply, “ the next time I meet you I shall pull your nose. I hope it will make no difference in our friendship. Yours, &c., D. Roberts. The sick squaw of a dusky chief in Washington Territory lately told her noble husband that she didn’t think that she should ever feel any better unless he killed her doctor. This is a novel and startling view of medical matters, and interesting to the profession. The doctor was duly killed ; and upon being tried for his murder the chief was acquitted on the ground that he acted in defence of his wife’s life ! The doctors in those religons must feel a little doubtful about continuing in the business under such circumstances.