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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3017, 16 October 1878, Page 1

An Austin young lady, in a discussion of the marriage question, thus expressed herself: " Well,no, I don't know as I'd marry for money alone; but if a man had plenty of money, allied to a sweet disposition, and a moustache that curled at both ends, and nice blue eyes, and a respectable profession,,and his father was rich, and his mother and sisters aristocratic, and he wanted to marry me, andwould promise to let me have my own way in everything, and to keep me fibefally, soplied with coin, and have a nice.- furnished house with a'big .piano in it, and would give me two diamond rings, and pay my dry goods, milliner's, .and.dressmakers bills without grumbling, and I really and truthfully loved, I would not consider his money any drawback to the match.'*

The other day the professor of German asked an unregenerate junior .what the gender of a certain noun was. The junior quickly replied, " I think it is neuter, sir. At any rate, it is neu-ter me."

, An old lady from the South said she ■never could imagine where all the Smiths come from until she saw in a New England town, a large sign, •• Smith Manufacturing Company."