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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2148, 13 January 1881, Page 4

The man who advertised that his bitters contained no rum, but produced the same effect*, has been selected to past round the plate. The German papers tell this story in connection with Earon Kothaohild’a death : —A. .meets 8., weeping and sobbing aloud. Says A., “ Why do you weep ?” “ Because,” says 33., as if his heart were breaking, “because he is dead—the (powerful, the rich baron,” “Bat,” replied A-, “why do you cry so much, ho was no relation of yours ?” “ That’x just what 1 am crying about,” howled 8., affected morethan ever. An old Scotchman attributes the disappearance of ghosts from the Scottish moers to the custom of too-drinking at social meetings. It .requires Scotch whisky on the top of old ale (to enable a man to see a ghost really worth talking about. They gat down on a bench in the park to rest, fresh from the country, and took each other by the hand. They had sat for fiftyfive minutes there, when tho young man leaned over her flaxen curls and with an uneasy movement said, “ Smantha, I’m going to let go of your hand for a minute, but you won't be mad, will yoa, darling ? I wouldn’t lot go till you did, only some sort of a bug is crawling down my back, and I can't keep my jtnind on you and the bugs at the same time.' Were Ananias about in these campaigning days, how he would marvel at the rapid strides that have been made in the profession in which he once stood supreme. Blow frightful tho mortality, were the punishment of this typical liar repeated wherever applicable. " Boston Transcript,”