Savory Morsels.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4483, 18 May 1883, Page 2

Savory Morsels.

An English traveller in the Holy Land, it is said, has discovered Jacobs Well. We are delighted to hear it. There has been a rumour afloat that Jacob was dead. " Never swear before ladies," says a^ preacher. What are we t > do ? Wait until the ladies swear first, and then swear after them. .

A Business Faxlv be.—The agent of a New York clothing house, who was sent to s-ttle up the failure of a retail house, made a few inquiries of the man next I door. " I pelief it vhas a square failure," explained the man, '• What makes you think so? "Vhell he didn't drink, nor smoke, nor gamble, nor drive a fast hor«e, and ash for his vhife, she never buys nothings and keeps no help." "Then you lay it to the stagnant condition of trade?" " Vhell, trade was purty dull, but you see he vhas not der right sort of a man. Vhen a man shtops to buy a west for two dollars he doan make him peiief dot he vhants an ofercoat for 15, und vhen a man stops to buy an ofercoat for 15, he doan convince him dot he needs a^second-hand suit for 30. He may do in the, grocery peesness, but he oan't run some clothing store mitout argument."* lo a London magazine recently a map of New Zealand was giren, coloured so as to indicate the prevailing religion! The North Island was shown white, nial nifying Christian; the centre of the South Island grey, for Mahometan; and the northern and southern extremitiei black, showing them to be Heathen. A favorite mode q introduction i* Brazil is said to be: " This is my friend; if he steals anything from you I wilf be responsible for it." /