Savory Morsals.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4581, 10 September 1883, Page 2

Savory Morsals.

A male compiot a,t tp-'Btpa.&K jteaal colony tf Cayenne *ecerft]y^%^iined permission to marry a female 1 cjrariet; but as the man was a widow/ c, the Governor declared it necessary to obfcain a certificate of the death of his fifat mh. > A communication was sent to tb/i autfcorii ties, but the mail returned without reply. The coavict insisting that the ceremony should be no longe* delayed, the Gorernor said "But what is there to prove that your first wife ia dead ?" The replj of tljf, £ OBTict *a 8 satisfactory on this point """"111 here for having assassinated her!"—and the nuptial ceremony went on. A minister, who at hia ordination said to his congregation that be would not leave them till death parted them, having accepted a.call to Glami^.with £100 more than his present stipend, went into & family before tearing and began to cateohis'e one of the boys. " Wkaft qces. tion dan you say, Francis?" "K-eeifec. tual calling," replied *he stammering youth. " and what is that, Fnneie ? i% " A hu-hnh\»ndred p p-pounds mair .tt«»tsteapend, sir." "Ah Francis, dfr yon know where liars go?" "Yeye-yes sir," Where?" "Taetae Ga-n.n> Glamis, sir." . , It is said that during a recent storaj a steamer was Bared by throwing orerboaid a case of castor oil, and no doubt tbe story is true, JJatherthan have the dose repeated QJd would quiet down pretty qttick. „ *"(, & " J. aid a coarsp» conceited fellow^ tell the biggest lie you can, and hereV two shillings for you." " Faith," said Pat- " jour honour's a giatleman."