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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3777, 4 February 1881, Page 2

There is a story of a lady and gentleman travelling on an EBglish railroad. They were strangers to'each other. Suddenly the gentleman said: "Madame T will trouble you to look out of the window for a few minutes, as. I am going to make some changes in. my wearing apparel." "Certainly sir," she replied, with great politeness, rising and turning her back upon him. In a short time M^added: " Now, madame, my change is ' completed, and you may resume your seat." When the lady turned she beheld' her male companion transformed into a dashing lady, with a heavy veil over her | face. "Now, sir or madame, whichever ' you are," said the lady, " I must trouble you to look out of the' window, for I have ... alsp some changes to make in' my apparel." " Ocr- . tainly, madame," and. the gentleman in., ladies' attire, immediately complied. " Fow, sir, you may resume your seat." To his great surprise on resuming] his seat the gentleman in female attire found hii lady companion transformed into .a, man. He laughed and said, " It appears we are .both anxious to escape recognition. What have you done ? ' 1 have robbed a bank;" " And I," said the whilom lady, as he dexterously fettered his companion's wrists with a pair of handcuffs, ■'*:% am Detective J ,of Scotland Yard, and in female apparel have shadowed you lor ■ two days. Now (drawing a revolver) keep still." -. "

Said a new man at the cider press : " I - shall be able to get along all right as soon as I get my hand in."' But when he "got his hand in" and hadtwo .'.of the? fingers mashed, he changed hia mind." ' "The trouble with that temperance lecturer," said an old .teetotaller, "ig that his vocalised breath says one thin* and his unvocalised another."