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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2048, 27 November 1869, Page 2

A Dangerous Character. —A man whp “ takes life ” cheerfully. If a young lady bids you take heart, does it mean that you can take hers ? Don’t sleep with your coat on, or its nap and yours will be taken together. If your wife is good, kiss her for rewart}. If she isn’t, kiss her for punishment A Remedy for Sorrow. —ln one of bis plays Ad lison makes an undertaker thus upbraid a mute who had laughed at a funeral ; “You rascal, you, I have been raising your wages for the last two years, ou condition that you appear more sorrowful, and the higher wages you receive, the happier you look ! ” The Law. —ln the chief court of law in Granada there used to he the picture of a naked man with a large bundle of papers under his arm, and certain words proceeding out of his mouth, of which these are a translation :“I who won my suit am now stripped to the skin; what, then must have been the fate of him who lost it ?” Spanish litigation would seem to he almost as expensive a luxury as our own. A Wiff.’s Temper. —Here is a gentleman's diary of his wife’s temper :—M outlay—a thick fog ;no seeing through it. TuesdayGloomy and very chilly; unseasonable weather. Wednesdaj-—Frosty, at times sharp. Thursday—Bitter cold in the morning red sunset, with flying clouds, portending hard weather. Friday—Storm in the morning, -with peals of thunder ; air clear afterwards. Saturday (payday)— Gleams of sunshine, with partial thaw; frost again at night. Sunday—A slight south-wester in the morning ; clear and pleasant at dinnertime ; hurricane earthquake at night. Who Speaks First.—A Western American editor prints the following advertisement : —“ Wapted at this office, a hoy to take sheets from the press every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon. No limits as to salary, and the said boy is to consider that the office exists for bis special conyenj: ence. If he don’t feel well, or wants fq go fishing, or play marbles, or see match gaipes of base-ball, qr gq shqpping with his girl,’ or visit his cousin, the paper Mill M-ait hit* sovereign pleasure. Anybody avho presumes to criticise his efforts is to be immediately arrested for contempt. All the boys he knows are to have free run of the office. The editor’s time to be exclusively at the aforesaid hoy’s disposal. Salary to qualifications, please report where he can be found, and at what time a deputation of printers may call upon him apd respectfully presents references of good character ou the office and its employes. Please write for postage-stamps on gilt-edged paper. Stirlmj Advertiser, August, 1869.