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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4503, 11 June 1883, Page 2

A lodger was eating more hotter than biaouit while the Nnd.'iady looked on and fidgetted and hinted natil she fairly weftJL into a nervous, fit. Finally she said ■" Do J ?.? v £* 0* butter ™*Ptol* M a pound ? The hungry lodger reached out and took what there was left. " Well," he drawled, approvingly and reassuringly* M good butter is wuth it." • Morrow is a town of some importance. ; about forty wiles from Cincinnati. A new porter on the railway, who did not know the names of the stations, was approached by a stranger the other day, while standing by a train at the CWtnnatti station r —" Does this train go to Morrow to-day ? " No," said the porter, who thought the. stranger w«» making game of him;"ft goes ta-day yesterday week after next.** *" You don'tunderetand me." persisted the -stranger. " I want to go to Morrow." -• f\ Well, why don't you wait until to-mor? xpw then, and Hot come bothering around to-day? You can go to-morrow or any ! other day you please." " Won't you answer a oivil question civilly ? Will this train go to-day to Morrow?" "Not exactly. It will go to-day and come ba<yt» toamorrow." as the gentleman who waited*, to yo to Morrow was about to leave- in disgust, another employe, who l^new,tha station alluded to, came along,, and gave him the required information. If postage stamps were in the habit ot, swearinp, what would thay swear by ?mm. By Gum!