Savory Morsels.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4490, 26 May 1883, Page 2

Savory Morsels.

"I wanter know what I'se charged wid," asked a colored lady of a justice of the peace. " Too are charged with stealing a goose," said the justice of the peace. " Well dats all right: I can prove my honesty. I can shoir dat it was a gander what I stole. Go ahead wid yer law, Mr Jedge." Intimate with 'Em.^The other day a pompous little fellow at a dinner table was boasting of the great men with whom he was on intimate terms. He was "» constant correspondence with Longfelllow, had lunched with Tennysoni was ■"* friendly relations with the Prince of wales, and in short, knew everything and everybody. At length a quiet individual at the farther end of the room broke in on the conversation withthe question, "My dear sir, did you happen to know the Siamese twins when they were in this country?" Our hero, who evidently had a talent for lying, but no real genius, at once replied; "The Siamese twins, sir P Yes, sir. I became very intimate with one of them, bufc I never had the good fortune to meet the other." An aged minister, addressing his assistant, remarked that it was singular how he felt more fatigued in hearing him than in preaching himself. The assistant replied that he experienced a similar feeling when his reverend constituent was in the pulpit. " Then," rejoined the minister, " I pity the folk that hare to hear ug baith."