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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3412, 28 November 1879, Page 2

" l)id you ever," asked a . brother humorist of Josh Billings, "stand at the hall door after jour lecture and listen tq what the people said about; it'as'they passed out?" Replied Josh: "I did once" (a pause and a sigh), " but I'll never do it again!" . . . ■ .■. -1 "It was a very informal affair," wrote Iho. rural historian to the editor of the local paper, concerning a pleasant enter* lainment which had taken place at the house of the new pastor. The wicked' compositor and careless proof reader made it rend: "It was a rery infernal affair," and; now the Presbytery want to know what is to bo done to the parson who has such | things at his house. "" \l'/. ji t The Curiosity of the Mob.-^Talk about female cariosity—it's aHone-sided. Let one man stop on the street to spell • out a sign on the top of a high building, and every mother's son that goes by will' stand, and stare for ten minutes 1 trying to" make out what the first idiot is locking\ at. '"" " ' V' The one unsatisfactory .thing, about Heaven to some women, .will '.be./wnek 1 they get into their angel clothes,'they can't jaw the dressmaker about the fit, and say she kept all the scraps. ■ -.-;■_