Janes had. been dining out, and as he lolled himself helpless in a chair, Mrs Jones, who had just put one side of her hair curl papers, regarded the sinner fixedly^ and exclaimed " iou're drunk, Joues." Jones smiled feebly and re« plied, " My dear, you are half screwed." Mrs J. caught sight of the joke in the looking-glass just in time to save a faint. ■" My frens," said the officiating clergyman at the marriage of two colored persons near Cincinnati recently; "my frens, it am a serious thing to get married, Especially when bofe the parties is orphans, an' haint got no parieots to fall back on, as am de present case."
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4314, 28 October 1882, Page 2
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112Untitled Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4314, 28 October 1882, Page 2
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