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Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1684, 27 May 1874, Page 2

Two negro women met upon the stree the other day, when the following convert sation took place: First woman : "Is you gwine to set up me de corpse to-night?" Second woman: " No; my husband won't let me." First woman:" Pshaw! I never seed such a husban' as you is got, He never wants you to hab no fun." -

I value the education oi the intellect, not for its present joys alone, but for the greater growth it gives, the enlargement of the cup to take in more and higher joys.

"You haven't put on a clean shirt today; ' said an American captain to his corporal; " you never saw me without a clean shirt on parade when I was a corporal." "True, captain, but then jour mother was a washer-woman !" - Japanese officials are beginning to try their hands at proclamations in the English language. Here is an exampie :—" The trees cutting, birds and beasts killing, and horses and" cows set* ting in free at the ground belonging to Government are prohibited-^ ( Signed) Osaka. Fu." *" " * An Indiana patient, to whom was prescribed leeches, took them inwardly. IS? ?? ng i a .loud' l On% hi«h toned •010, till the doctor who heard of his case gave him an inside-ont remedy. Aa emetic is meant to be conveyed by the delicate metaphoric language Magistrate: "You may. hare been intoxicated; but the officer testifies that you were not so tipsy as not to know T^i Aout'" Pri»oner.—. !'. 0h' T lf 1 J»* known that was an objeohon. I could easily have taken another drink or two.

In JarA, when the ladies ire in want of a husband they have a pretty hortioultural way of notifying the fact, by hanging an empty flower-pot or vase up in the portico. The object, it may be supposed^ to intimate that they want«to pot" their man. . ' .' ••■ *

It has been found out why persons cannot sleej}. It is because there is an accumulation, mainly of carbonic acid, that accumulation being favored and controlled by reflexl action of the nervous system, which.thns protects the organism from « cessive oxidation, and "allows the orgtnism to manifest its normal functional aotivity throughout a succeeding rhvthmio P.!f, lod;". "• »hould not have thought ft little thinjj like this would hare kept one awake. Persons, who,can't .sleep,however, should put iomo of the above thing!