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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2574, 7 April 1877, Page 2

, A Chowd op Govsbkobß.*~A gentleman baying occasion to interview one of the distinguished visitors- in the Democratic parlour of the St Charles Hotel, put his head in the door and asked, " Governor, can I speak with you a moment P" : Seven men immediately -rose up and said, " Certainly, sir."—New Orleans Republican- •„- - f

Sundays fob Religion.—The colored brother of the South, with his high re-ligious-feeling* and his low practical morality, is a representative of the carrent divorce' of religion land morality which is beginning- to attract attention from pulpit and press. A worthy mjssidnary clergyman from the North, found his brethren and sisters quite forgetful oif the moral law,- and began to give them a series of practical discourse! against lying and stealing. ' The congregation stood it for a Sunday or two,' and jiSen they revolted, one of their deacons being their spokesman, > and addressing their preacher. thus : ":.you, her/ much, and want to make it comf bit for you; but de fac' is, youjao/weidpn'tiike dis preachin' about lyin'':and.stealiii'<s *we mus'hab our Sundays for/ligion/'

Taking- Him- at His; Wozvlf?" Yd ike you to help me a little," ssid if tramp, poking his head into a country i general sbop\ " Why don't you help yourself ? " returned the proprietor angrily, 'f.Thanlc you, I will," said the tramp,: a» he picked up a bottle of pickles and. two <: ioaref jti bread and disappeared. -< ;:•,.' ;,

Smith's Equestbianisk.—-A gentle* man was driving in the country; and met a friend who had just; bejan to rids 00 horseback. The gentleman turned tohjs servant^ remarking, " I did notknow tiiat Mr Smith..rode. "Beg pardon, sir," was the reply; "he does not ride—he is . conveyed. -J:.-v :. w A *• By Wat op ExpiAiriTioir.-iAweiU known poet calls the British revHwitt " chinjney-Bweeps " in his .new poem. The thing is explained by the fact that whejiu* they "flue l' at him he had a "brush" with them, and they didn't" soot" him.

Whbh is a fish like a bird P—When it , rises and takes a fly,