Savory Morsels.
. There were some amusing passages daring the. hearing of the celebrated Belt Lawe's libel case just concluded. Here is one passage:—Mr Frith, examined by Mr Russell, said : I am a painter and Royal Academician. Mr Russell: You are the author of " The Derby Day," " The Railway Station," and the picture in which the distinguished Judge who presides, at this trial is represented on " The Road to Ruin ?" (Great laughter.) The Judge: That is not so—tbe picture is not " The road to Ruin." Mr Russell: I should be very gltid to divert your lordship from that path. (Renewed laughter.) The Tudge: It ia a very good joke; but the picture is " The Race for Wealth," . and in . the fourth picture the Judge is presiding at the trial of a prisoner. In the fifth picture be is sent to penal servitude. Mr Russell (gravely) : Why. my lord —the Judge p (Roars of laughter). The Judge: No, the prisoner. Mr Russell: Your lordship has quite relieved my mind. (Renewed laughter). Another is thus reported : —Mr Webster: Do you think it is so wicked then to keep a diary ? Witness : No; I keep a diary myself, but I write pothing in it. (Laughter).
In a Tillage in one of the lower countries of Kentucky, a stranger seeing a man looking out of a window iv the jail, asked him what he was doing there. He replied —" I got the jailer to lock me in here to save me from a mob that wanted to lynch me. You, see stranger, the county jail is the only asylum of liberty in these ' ere parts." A young woman in the country, incensed at an egotistical young man from that town, said, "If the butcher down in the Tillage could buy you at the price your acquaintances hold you at, and sell you at your own estimate of yourself, he could retire from business on what he'd make on that single transaction in veal." A woman has suggested that when men break their hearts it is all the same as when a lobster breaks one of his claws, another sprouting immediately and grow* ing in its place.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4423, 8 March 1883, Page 4
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361Savory Morsels. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4423, 8 March 1883, Page 4
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