Savory Morsels.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4702, 1 February 1884, Page 2

Savory Morsels.

Rector's Wife—" Another nctreas to be married _ta a lord J It's siraply shocking. |*m afraid there's no heip for it, Septimus ; we shall hare to bring up Evangeline for the stage !"

The large stone hand of an idol in. a Chinese temple recently fell off, and severely injured a worshipper beneath. "Satan still some mischief finds for idle | hands to do." ( • "When I was a young man," says Billings, "I, was always in a hurry to hold the big end of the log and do all the lifting; now I am older, I seize, hold of the small end and do all the grunting." ta Haddemneck, on the Connecticut' Biver, there lived, many years ago, a farmer by the same of Stocking, whose sons and daughters from whim were given names beginning with the letter *• S. v Thus there were Sarah Stooking^ Samuel Stocking, Samantha Stocking," and nine other Stockings, with names beginning with the same letter. Wheft the thirteenth Stocking was born, a sort of family council was held, at which the minister, and doctor assisted, to determine the name of the new arrival. A list of n£\naßS was searched through, but it seemed as though the whole of the names begmmng with the family letter hail been appropriated, and great was the tribulation. At last a little Stocking seated ia a corner of the room spoke up in his childish treble—"Say, father, don't you thmk you had better call the baby Stop Stocking?" - It is now certain that the w*eek found on Mount Ararat is the remains of Noah's ark. They know it by the grease-mark in the bunk where Ham was stored.; " That Husband or Mike is three times the man he was beiore he began using " Wells* Health Senewer."- Drugguta. Moiei, Mom & Co., Sydney, General Agentf,