Savory Morsels.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4580, 8 September 1883, Page 2

Savory Morsels.

A Connecticut boy was. warned against eating meat for^suppor, on account of its liability to produce distressing dreams; but he still insisted, on doing it. A little while ago the youngest was telling his last dream at.the br 9 akfast table. Bears had surrounded him, snakes had crawled down his back, a camel had turned a somersault over him and a big elephant had assailed him. There, " said bis uncle, " I told you it you ate meat for your supper you would have frightful dreams ! " « Don't care, " promptly replied the boy. "I guess I want to see a circus once in a while." •v- >»suppose * mi ftht as weli destroy this, said a tailor, disconsolately, to his wife, taking up a bill due from one of the deacons of the church to which they belonged. « Wot a bit of it," returned his wite; •• give it to me." The next Sunday morning, when the plate was passed round tor subscriptions to pay off the floating debt, she dropped the bill in it, and before the middle of the week it was paid. ■ !•- Marriage is a lottery, "> remarked tht happ r tailor as he pocketed the money; "but I advise every man to take the chances." "Farewell," was the title of a poem sent to a newspaper; and the cruel editor, in acknowledging its receipt, said: "Itis & pood thing that the gifted authoress bad© it good-bye, as she will never see it again." The story is told of Cardinal Manning that, on being instructed by the Vatican to make a report on the state of English Freemasonry he wrote one to the effect that, in this country, Freemasonry iraa hardly more than a large goose club."