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Evening Star, Issue 3104, 30 January 1873, Page 3

“Lucus a Non,” &c.—Visitor: “How long has your master been away?”- Irish Footman : “ A elf, sorr, if he’d come hoine yistherday, he’d a’ been gone a wake to-morrow ; bqt pv he doesn’t return the day afther, sure he’ll a’ been away a fortnight next Tliorsday !”— Punch, Hie !—Sere widens has stumbled —he frequently does stumble—on this paragraph : “Mr Wideman, of Boston, announces that he employs ozone on a large scale in order to deprive whiskey of its fusal oil.” Old Screw says he can now “understa’ (hie) what it is that’ (hie) con- (hie) fusels him so after a few glass’ (hie) whisk’ (hie) I"—Punch. A story is told of a clegyraan in a Massachussets town who forgot his notes on a Sabbath morning, and as it was too late to send for them, he said to his audience, by way of apology, that this morning he should have tu depend upon the Lord for wbftt he might say, but in the afternoon he would come better prepared.