DE OMNIBUS REBUS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 419, 15 October 1875, Page 4

DE OMNIBUS REBUS.

♦ A gentleman in addressing Lady X., who had just re-married in Paris for the third time, said reproachfully, “You do not come to London any longer?” “Oh, yes,” she replied, in a most natural manner, “ I always pass my widowhoods there-” The Shelby country, Ky., Herald , says : “The school directors have expelled five or six young darkies from the coloured school here for constant disobedience of the rules of the school. One of the proteges of the Civil Eights Bill made a short appeal to Director Dines to this effect : ‘ Xow, you jus’ git a big hickory an’ make me take off my coat an lick me till you’re sa’s’fied, but for de lub o’ Ood don’t ’spell me.’” Old Boots. —A nose show lately took place in a little town of Austria. The largest and ugliest got the prize. There were three prizes. Eighty noses competed for the prizes. None of them, we think, however, would have stood a ghost of a chance with “ Old Boots,” of llipon, who was known in the eighteenth century as boot-cleaner to an hostel in that town. He was remarkable for a very long nose, curving downwards, and extending an inch and a quarter beyond Ids lips, and a chin which extended straight before him, and almost met his nose. When visitors at the inn gave him a gratuity, he received it on his chin and held it fast there with his nose till he deposited it in his money-box. With his nose he could rub his chin, and used to create great diversion among the servant maids by attempting to kiss them, a feat he could never accomplish. “He turned his face sideways to get a kiss, and his nose and chin caught the rosy cheeks like a pair of crab claws. But to kiss was an impossibility; for when he had thus fastened the damsel, his mouth was open and could not be closed, American Paper,