CLIPPINGS

Evening Star, Issue 3119, 17 February 1873, Page 3

CLIPPINGS

Governess tp pupil; ‘••Where floes tea come?” Naughty little hoy j “0«t q| the teapot,” A good motto for a crockery dealer is ewers, &e, and the acrobats of a household are the pitcher and tumbler.

The Patm of Geneva says “ A lady of Bourg (Ain), Madame Topou, lately bequeathed to p ar i church a sum of a.OUOf., on condition that forty masses should be said every year, twenty for the repose of her own soul, and twenty for that of her husband. The ecclesiastics, q.qnsidflAng'that tlie of/wasses'hit’s’risen like all other it Will still augment, and that consequently the work imposed by the legacy will one day be greater than the advantages derived Irom it, have refused to accept the money ” An experienced boy says he regards hunger and the chastening rod as'about'the same thing. They both make a boy hollar. A New England paper says the flies there arp now so g6od' naturpfl that ‘a wel 1-orga-nised oWwil'l alldw’himself "to be' brushefl off one’s hose "eighty-seven timps and pqb show any i emper. Cons. —Why is a ppptain haranguing his crew like an upholsterer ? -Because he is a deck ror afar. If the burglars carry off your plate, why is it all right ’—Because it’s not left. The story is denied that a lady from Corneoticut was once seen starting for the summit of Holborn hill with an alpenstock in one hand and an aneroid in the other. Com’, Com’!—A young Scot of our acquaintance has a “bee in his bonnet.” He atributes it—we cannot say with what truth —to his mother’s habit of parting his hair with a honey-comb,— Fun Almanac.

Kxperientia Docet.—Eldest of Fourteen.— “Where’s baby, Madge?” ' MddgO—ln the other room,'l think, Emily,” " Eldest of Fcmrteieit ; -‘“ Gb directly, and see what she’s doing, and tell her'she mustn’t.”— Panel{. If small girls are I 'waifs,' ape large"ohea wafers?;' “Certaiply,sivys sixteen? at least the boys haye the habit of applying them to their lips \n sealing their vows.’'