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Globe, Volume III, Issue 237, 13 March 1875, Page 3

It is said that at three years old we love our mothers ; at six, our fathers ; at ten, holidays; at sixteen, dress ; at twenty, our sweethearts ; at twenty-five, our wives ; at forty our children ; and at sixty, ourselves. Mistress : “Jane, tell cook I’ll come down and see what she wants done to that stove, as the builder’s coming to-morrow.” Jane: “Oh, please, mum, I don’t think we can ast you into the kitchen to-day, mum, as cook and me’s got a small and early ‘At ’Ome ’ this afternoon, mum!” The irrepressible joker at a well-known club the other day, while touching up his oysters with pepper from the caster, observed to the waiter that the pepper was half peas. “Oh no, sir,” said the polite waiter, “that is the best sort of pepper. “ Well, I tell you it is half peas. Call Mr Brown” (the manager). That gentleman came, and-the joker remarked, “I always expect to get the best of everything in this house, but the pepper is half peas.” “ That can’t be so. We take especial pains to procure it, and have it ground in our own mill.” “Well, it is so, and I can prove it.” “If you can, I should like to hear you.” “ Well, John, you must spell it.” And the amiable proprietor retired with a sweet and gegtle smile on his benevolent face.