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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2175, 27 April 1870, Page 2

A tallow-chandler said he didn’t mean any disparagement to the sun when he said that his candles were the best lights ever invented, Talking of mist, what is the difference between a falling star and a fog?— One ia nrssed in heaven, and the other is mist on earth, A widow once said to her daughter, ‘ ‘ When you are at my age i4|MjMpKe time enough to dream of a Yes, mamma,” replied the thoughtless beauty, for the second time. ” Most people take one another by the hand but barbers take folks by the face. To them people’s faces are a handy business. In their hands only, it may be added, is shaving - a honest thing ; and the closer they shave, the more faithful they are. A captain of militia, on receiving a note from a lady, requesting the “pleasure of his company,” understood it as a compliment to those under his command, and marched the whole of them to the lady’s house. A few days ago a man entered a French omnibus, and deposited a paper bag on the floor of the vehicle between his legs. The parcel got wet, the paper burst, and the con. tents of it—large, streaked, slimy, long, horned snails—took to crawling about the legs of the passengers, preferring jupons as their favorite promenade ground. The man who “took a walk” the other day brought it back again; but the next day he took a ride, and went off with it. 1