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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2643, 28 June 1877, Page 3

. TtrBNiNG an Opportunity to AccotTKT.—Perhaps the following anecdote, writes " Atlas," in the World, may be useful to readers whose tenements abut on railways:—An eminent " menagerist " lives in a suburb where pass his garden 40 trains an hour. The weather was cold, but coals were expensive. The "menagerist," however, was a man of resource ; he conceived a plan of utilising the 40 trains an hour. From his menagerie in town he brought a large Barbary ape, which unfortunate animal was chained to the top of a pole at the end of the garden. The result was as pleasant as owning a colliery, without any wages to pay or fear of floods and explosions. Every stoker— and occasionally a driver—on every tram that passed had a shot with a lump of coal at the Barbary ape. The B.A. was never hit; but the garden was littered with, coal which the "menagerist triumphantly conveyed to his cellars. Osdsb of Precedence. —Mistress — "I wish you would manage-to get up to prayers more punctually of an evening, cook." Cook (who " knows her place ") —" Well 'm, it ain't my fault, 'm. It s of course for the' parlour-maid to move first."—Punch.