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Evening Star, Issue 3280, 25 August 1873, Page 2

A goose has many quills, but an author can make a goose of himself with only one quill. In Massachusetts, when the preacher roaches “ seveuteenthly ”in his sermon, a knowing chap yells “ lire,” and the congregation is promptly dismissed. —A merlcan paper. h'ond of “ Loo.”—A mild and affectionate wife in Lancaster overheard an acquaintance remark that her husband was too fond of 100. She waited up for him that night, and when he came home demanded to know if he had been spending his time with “Loo.” The unsuspecting husband admitted that he had, when, without giving him time to oxplain, she went at him with a fire-shovel, ihe husband does not exactly remember how the interview ended, but he never could convince his wife that “loo” ivasa game at cards, and always plays whist now, and gets home before 10 o’clock.