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Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1675, 16 May 1874, Page 2

! Not Least.—A Whitehall real estate owner, having let all his houses but one, was asked if that unlet house was his last. , "Yes, last, but not leased," was his reply. The honest people of Pioche are now complaining of the .monotonous salutation of " Throw up your hands, you son of a gun, and deliver up your money.". * A telegraph operator summoned a doc» tor thus:—" Come at once to see procession of Carlo Spencer's menagerie." The message, when " repeated," read— "Come at once with prescription—case of cerebro-spinal meningitis." A Georgia man being asked if he thought a certain politician in the state would steal, replied, " Steal! Why, by Jove, if he was paralysed and ham-strung, I wouldn't trust him by himself in the middle of the Desert of Sahara, with the biggest anchor of the Great Estearn. Steal! I should think he would." Fob a Wedding Song.—Love knot. Bather Ruff.—The present Elizabethan style of feminine collar. When a woman gets a letter she carries it in her hand, but a couple of' pounds of sausage she manages to squeeze into her pocket.