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Evening Star, Issue 3845, 21 June 1875, Page 3

“ Hone«ty is the best policy,” unless you can get about 50,000 dol. and effect a settlement at 80 per cent. An impertinent fellow wants to know if you ever sat down to tea where skimmed milk was on the table, without being asked “Do you take cream ?” Ingenious.—A lady recently asked her servant how the mustard-pot had become cracked. The reply, made with all gravity, was that she did not know, but supposed it must have been that the mustard was so strong that it caused the fracture. That American Reporter Again.—At a recent wedding, according to a report, the jellies upon the bridal supp r tables were pure amber masses of quivering translucence, catching the wine-colored prisms of perfumed light, and holding them in tremulous mirrors. How about the lobster salad and doughnuts ? It is not often that a constable so far forgets what is due to himself and the dignity of his office i as to indulge in jocularity, but an amusing exception occurred the other day in a Victorian police court. A woman was giving evidence in a petty case in Melbourne, a i about her grievances in a most voluble manner. At last the presiding magisirate got weary, and toning to the constabljfc' asl- ed, “Is the woman wound up ?” “ Yel? 7°ur Worship. ’ ‘ 1 And how long will she keep on ? For eight days, your worship ; they mostly does last that time before they run down.”