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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2632, 15 June 1877, Page 2

Joint Account.—A butcher's bill*— Punch. Gclinaby Ccmuhe.—-New cook—" If you're going up -stairs, Mr Buggies, you might just tell my lady that if she can't write the "Menoo" in French, I shall be very 'appy to do it for her."—Punch. A druggist says of the man who came in and borrowed his mortar, and forgot to return it, that " he's a pestilent fellow." Con.—Why is Saturday the best day to make inquires, at the General Post* office P —Because it's ten.to one you'll find the clerks there, and on other days it's ten to four.—Punch. Above the Eaeth, on Undbb the Eabth, ob Whebe ?—A new candidate | for novelistic honours thus makes his heroine "do" the picturesques—"Drawing the blind her eye goes out over a scene/ the like of which is nowhere to be found on earth." What Unselfish Cbeatubks Women Abe !—On one of the recent dismal days a lady, dressed in the deepest myrtle* coloured cloth, told another that she had put on a deep-toned crimson bow to brighten the room. In all Candoujj.— " Plenty of milk in your cans this morning P" a customer asked a milkman the other morning. And the milkman nodded gravely as, without a wink of his eye, he made reply, " Chalk* full.