Savory Morsels.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4694, 23 January 1884, Page 2

Savory Morsels.

It is written that Noah's Ark was, it is computed, as long as St. Paul's Cathedral, London, nearly as broad, and half as high. Its tonnage is estimated at from 12,033 to 42,413 tons—not much difference in the figures. The Great Eastern is 55 feet longer than the Ark was. When one wonders what'the consequenoes would have been had the vessel careened by * rush of animals to one side of it, wonder fills his brain pan, and thinks how per-! fectly the stalling must have been attended to, and hew carefully the insects must have been stored, especially the Maori black ones, who didn't eat away their cages. Much praise is due to the foubdryman or tinsmith who" turned, oat the material for those receptacles. There is talk of lynching the men who evolved this toast: "Our tire engines, may they be like old maids—ever ready, but never wanted," •

This is a hoj'a composition on girls; "Girls are the only folks that always has the*? awa way. Girls is of several thousand kinds, and sometimes one girl can be like several thousand girls if she wants to do anything. This is all I know about girls, and my father says the less I know about them the better.

11 Now, gentlemen," said Sheridan to his guests, as the ladies left the room," ■'* let us understand eaeb other. Are we to drink like men or beasts ?" Somewhat indignant, the guests exclaimed, "Like men, of course." ••Thep," be repiled, " we are going t© get jolly drunk, for brutes nerer drink more than they want."

It wa 5 an Irish pilot who, being asked if he knew the rocks in the harbour, replied with confidence—*l do yer honor, ivery wan a* them. That's wan,' he added calmly. As the ship itraok, it filled, and sa.nfe.

Woollen goods are quoted quite; beeanse of there nap.