Savory Morsel.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4385, 23 January 1883, Page 2

Savory Morsel.

Two ladies were recently arguing about s . the advantage of destroying fruit—dcs- '" troying -Hisects by the means of swallows.' One held that the swallows banished tLe worms, while her companion contended that the swallows were a greate? nuisance than the worms. Things came to a dead lock. One of the ladies saw a gentleman approaching, and suggests that the disputed point stould be left to him to decide. Accordingly he was aaked. "Oh J Mr Fitzdubbs, we hare had such an argu» ment, and we can't' sejtle a question. Will you do it for. us ? " " Oh! yes, that , is, Oh! yes, certainly." " Well," said the lady, rather in a hurry to hare the point decided in her faror, " Which do you' .consider the worst, worms or' swallows." Young Fitz looked confused. He replied, ." Ah, well ypu know, Eh! Ah! yeß,,you.k*now,l can't say really, I nerer had the*wallows." * The JVlutUertf Mouotelos, county Cork, in Ireland, arV now literally swarming with grouse, thore" being nobody to shoot them. The landlords are too afraid of their tenants to go near the place, and the latter have no guns, haring had to surrender them, under the Coercion Act, to tLe authorities. It was in this neighborhood that the informer Conaell and more than sixty farmers' ions were arrested ai " Moon!ighte:«s."

"I wish I was worthlBl(X),00O," laid a gentleman. "What good wsuld it do you, for you don't spend your present iaaome P " inquired a friend. " Oh, I could be eed» nomical on a larger scale.