AMUSING AND INTSRUCTIVE.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 692, 25 June 1870, Page 1

AMUSING AND INTSRUCTIVE.

Not a Miss — a rich, handsome widow. How to make a clean sweep. -Wash him " Is haughty-culture commendable in.farv c mer's daughter's ? The greatest rarity. — A contented old.. ; bachelor. . ;! ■ ' Why cannot a medical man ever be " wide awake '"—Because he's always "dosing." What is that which,' when thrown out, may be caught without hands ?— A hint. Very light Eating.— A Chinese Feast of ;. Lanterns. a Why ought a housemaid to iiave more, lives than a cat : — Because every morning she " returns to dust." In our prosperity real friends are wont to visit us when invited, but m adversity they ••■ come of their own accord. A parson was twitted with taking too long a time over his white tie while dressing — " It iB my duty," he answered. "to attend most carefully to my fold." "This preaching forty-five minutes," said a rector at dinner one Sunday to his curate, "will never da Here's a fine goose roasted' \ to a rag, and not a drop of gravey m it." " Please turn your head a little," said a beautiful nurse to her male patient. " Yon have turned it already. Madam/ said he. "Ah, sir, I gaess you will not die th's time." , ' : The manufacture 'of postage-stamps aslarger proportions every year ; daring 1868, 500 millions were produced. A tax-gatherer was observed the .other evening all alone m a corner, moody, -ni&SY. .V tative, and frowning. His work was.-joVfer for the day, but from force of habit (consSfi ; v from being always at the receipt of eusto^n) he was collecting himself. A learned lady, the other evening, astonished the company by asking "the loan of a diminutive argentine trunoative coin, convex at its summit, and semiperforated with symmetrical indentations." She wan* ted a thimble.