Savory Morsels.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4579, 7 September 1883, Page 2

Savory Morsels.

Parents under the circumstances cannot be too careful. The clergyman had come out to Jumbuana to christen the twins, which were so much alike that they weea - the admiration of lh& neighborhood for' miles around. When the first little bundle was handed to him he inquired the name, and was informed "David," and so proceeded. He was going on with ■" Susan,'' when he was ©becked by a crythat No. 1 ought to have been Susan, and that this was David, and the whole pro* ceedings had to be gone over afresh. It was on his torrid property that the boundary rider fell i\U A travelling clergy. man paid the invalid ,a..friendly: riait. " Has a future state no forrorßior 'ypu ?" was his delioate inquiry." " No," said the sick man ambiguously, "I've been fourteen years on this station !"•—iEgles. Mrs Lilliphace says she uses powder merely to take the shine off h»r face, but Fogg thinks- she uses it to take the shine . off the other woman's faces. It is claimed by medical men that smoking weakens the eyesight. Maybe it does, but just Bee how it strengthens the breath. .■■V M Suffering sisters," exclaimed the speaker, energetically shaking the hairpfns from her head in her excitement, "'women will never obtain iheir rights until they display more courage. Let me say to yon, in ths words of a French orator, "Courage, daurage, courage!" At this stage of the proceedings somebody threw a bos of caterpillars upon the platform and the meeting broke up in great terror and confusion. "What do you think of womea for doctors ?" asked a lady of her family physician. "They are invaluable madam," replied the doctor; "we derive at least two-tmras of our income from them,',.