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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1844, 30 November 1874, Page 3

Amekican Zephyrs.—A Yankee in Italy after a severe tornado, which the people seemed to consider a great thing, declared that it was hardly up to the average of daily breezes in Maine, his native state, where the people dare not raise children except in sheltered localities, on account of the strenuous character of the zephyrs which play over the hills. Not to be Done-—A. lad having a letter for the person by the name of Dunn, asVed a wag near an eating-houso if he could tell him where to find Mr Dunn. The wag told him to go into the eatinghouse, and the first person at the first table was the gentleman he was enquicing for. The lad went in; this "first gentleman" happened to be an Irishman —" Are you Dunn?" said the boy. "Done?" replied Pat; "by my sowl, I am only just begun." ■• .••••'. To Much fob Sambo.—A Tennessee lawyer who resorted to the insanity dodge on behalf of his negro client, and expatiated at some length, upon the absolute idiocy of the poor fellow, met with some opposition from the darkey himself, who exclaimed, "You can hang me, or send me to de pemtenchry, or sa,y I'se a rascal; but, mister, please don't say I'se a fool again." A Delicate Hint.—An amiable, citizen of Builington called to see another who was flfngerously.ill. Attracted by a festive pair of boots in tlie room of. the inTalid, the visitor tried them on, when, turning to the sick man with much sympathy, he remarked, "Supposing the worst to happen, I'll take these boots." The following is the translation of an advertisement in the Paris Journal: <;M.A. Lefeuve, 48 bis Eve Basse dv Bempart, begs the lady in black who does not like draughts in omnibuses kindly to send him his purse, which she found in his pocket on the Ist of February, and to keep the money it contained as a reward for her cleverness."