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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2871, 29 April 1878, Page 2

Barry Sullivan, .who, a short time since, was playing Othello, met with a reply as unanswerable as it was unexpected. His frequent allusions to the handkerchief, "Where is' the handkerchief?" suggested to one of the Hibernian "gods" to answer, " Never motndyer handkerchief, sorr j blow your nose anyhow, and get on wid the play."

Much has been written against the bassoon; but the first evening after a young man who practised on one moved into the second floor of an up town boarding house, a smile lit up the face of an aged citizen oa the floor above. He said that he was now reconciled to death. A woman once called her little boy " a I'ewel" for doing something that pleased ler, but a little while after she chased him out of the house for doing someting bad, when the little fellow put his head in at the window and cried cut, " You'll never get rich, ma, if you throw away jewels like that I"

A gentleman giving a party in honor of a distinguished missionary lately returned from his field of work, the ladies appeared with very dt eolleU dresses, and as the host feared that the style might shook his reverence, he apologised to him for it ( saying that fashion demanded it. " Oh, I don't mind it at all," replied the missionary : I have been tenryears amongst the savages!"

An ill'bred traveller overtaking an aged minister whose hone was orach fatigued, said sneeringly: " A nice hone yours, DdMor,; very valuable bent that—bat what makes him wag hit tail so. Doctor P " " Why, as you have asked me I will tell yon," said the clergyman. "IM* for the same reason that your tongue ifafeHV* 1* sort of natural weakness." In a trial for diroree the lawyer for the wife harrowed up the husband by a long and glowing eulogy- on her, which the husband interrupted by exclaiming: •' Yes, yes! I admit all that! I admit she's an angel, and I hope you'll find another just like her, and mairy her, and hare to Jive with her fire years! Ikm Jon won't talk so glibly about her virtues, 'llbet!"