Savory Morsels.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4399, 8 February 1883, Page 4

Savory Morsels.

Tbe following advertisement appeared .in a daily newspaper recently and was answered''by about 500 young men:— " Wanted—-Experienced bands on ladies' waists." A Kentucky yirl always carries her money in her stocking when she goes - shopping, taking along a lady 'friend to divert the attention of the salesman while •he hauls out her money. Her Friend must be fascinating beyond belief. '■■ The other day a colonial paper said tbe real difficulty about jam-making here was the uncertainty of the price of melon squashes ; at Home it appears to rest ; with the price of turnips. A young lady sept a poem entitled, " I Cannot Make him Smile," to a newspaper. The editor ventures to express his opinion x that she would hare succeeded had she , showed him the poem. ; - Taking all the world, the United States in 1878 had the greatest mileage of railroad in proportion to the population, having a little over 21 miles for each 10,000 persons. In Europe, Sweden led with 6^ , oiileß to.every. 10,000 of her population. ... There have been many definitions of a gentleman, but the prettiest and most poetic is that given by a lady. " A gentleman," says she, " is a human being combining a woman's tenderness with a man's courage." It doesn't look well for a deacon to take au umbrella to church, and carry it into :"• bis pew and bang to it. He should leave it out in the vestibule, with that supreme confidence that a man has when he beta on four aces. It is stated that the two totalisator men ; who recently levanted from Melbourne, without settling on the Champion Bace, took, upwards of £2000 with them.