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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2939, 17 July 1878, Page 2

As a conceited young man was singing in company, an old lady burst into tears. The singer, greasy flattered by the old lady's emotion, took, an early opportunity to get an introduction' to her, when she thanked him cordially for his song, and said: "I had an ass I thought a great deal, of, that died lately, and your roice was. so exactly like his I couldn't help thinking of the poor beast as you sang. Slic clapped her handkerchief to her eyes again, and the young man "silently stole away."

A Simple Little Puzzn.—Let one of the party suddenly ask,' " Can anybody ■- put one of bis hand's in inch a position that the other cannot, by any possibility! touch it P" As there is but one such position (namely, clasping the elbow), a good deal of fun may be got out of the* various and often clumsy attempts to find it out.

Here is the pithiest sermon erer preached : " Our ingress in life is naked and bare; our progress in life is trouble and care ; our egress out of it we know not where ; but doing well here, we shall do well there; I could not tell more by preachiug a year."