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Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 320, 11 May 1878, Page 4

“Debt,” says Billings, “is a trap which a man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.” A Maine undertaker, dunned by a man avlio had a very sick wife, said : “ Oh, let it stand. You’ll be Avanting something in my lino pretty soon, if yon have good luck.” “ So,” observed a friend to the father of a pupil who had carried off a prize at the Paris Conservatorie, “ your sou has earned his spurs.” “ Yos,” replied, the practical sire, “ and now he has to cam Ids boots.” The model husband has been found in Philadelphia. He don’t permit his Avife to do but half the Avork. She puts up the canned fruit in summer, and ho puts doAA’ii in Aviator. “ Silence in the court !” thundered a Kentucky judge the other morning. “ A halt’dozoii men haA r e been convicted already without the court’s Laving been able to hear a Avord of the testimony !” A young LoAva man Avolcomcd his SAvecthcart with so cordial an embrace that a pistol in his pocket exploded, seriously wounding a boy who Avas looking on, forgetful that two are company. A married man up town had blue glass put in is Avife’s sitting room—to match tier eyes lie said. She returned the compliment by having red glass put in her husband’s library—to match his nose, she said. He didn’t seem to appreciate the compliment.