An eminent-divine was both a great wag and a great smoker. " Ha, thera you are," cried a lady who surprised h>m one day with a pipe in his mouth, "at your idol again !" " Yes madam," replied he, coolly, " turning it." ' A man in a small town in Maine recently wrote to the Handel and Hyndn Society in Boston, asking how much they would charge to come down there and give a concert. The reply was that it would be cheaper to bring the town to Boaton.
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Evening Star, Issue 4170, 8 July 1876, Page 3
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