HUMOUR.
What part of speech is most distasteful to lovers ? —The third person. The Patron Saint of Railways—St Pancrash.
Name for a new newspaper (to be on the breakfast table every day)—The Morning Appetiser.
It is estimated that the number of ladies who cannot pass a mirror without glancing into it averages about twelve to every dozen.
Unreported “ Atrocity ” in the City— City miscreant—“ Where do you go this autumn, Brown?” “ Scarboro’.” “Well, did you enjoy your holiday, or did you take your missis ?” Every infant can say “no” several months before it can say “yes” —Scientific American It should be remembered, though, that infants are not invited to “take something”— Camden Post.
Unexpected Welcome—“ Are you there my love ?” he jwhispered through a hole in his beloved’s back yard. “ Yes, darling,” was the reply ; “ jump right over.” He did so, and alighted in the presence of her mother, a broomstick, and a policeman.
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Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 836, 27 February 1877, Page 3
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154HUMOUR. Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 836, 27 February 1877, Page 3
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