Untitled

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4504, 12 June 1883, Page 2

Invalids at Ckueih.—A church in Chicago has an invalids' 7 nfemin a recess near the pulpit, with a window which looks directly down on the preacher's desk, though unseen by most of the congregation. This apartment is divided by a wall from the main audience room, anchp*, entered by a private door. .It is provided - with chairs, tables, lounges and other conveniences. The inmates may sit or stand or lie or walk, cough when disposed, and leave at their pleasure, without disturbing the congregation. • ' '

The MacLeod, of MacLeod, is a red" headed, piraply-faced Scotohman, who claims to own 143,000 acres of land in the Isle of Skye. Addressing a meeting of his tenants, who sought a redaction of rent, he said "he hoped they. were not following the bad example of the Irish and bringing disgrace upon themselves." The spokesman of the deputation replied —" The people did uae think it was ony disgrace to feed themsels and their little bairns. If his lairdship didn't tak half the present rent they had made up their minds not to gie him a baubee." A busy doctor aenfc in a certificate of death the other day, and accidentally signed his name in the space for "Canse ot Death." The registrar says be wishes the -profession would be as ' accurate generally. * Woman's Love.—" Do you believe that a woman now-a-days would die for the object of her love ?" asked her bachelor friend. " I don't know whether she'd die or not," answered the benedict, " but I've known her to go wild when the trimming didn't suit her." Why is a retired oculist like an Inland Bevenue officer P—Because ho it an ex-eyeu-nitm.