Savory Morsels.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4777, 1 May 1884, Page 2

Savory Morsels.

Children frequently put puzzling ques« tions at home to their parents oh various subjects, as if evinced by the one which a smart boy who had been reading tha newspaper, put to his father: " Pa, has the world got a tail ?". " No, my boy, it is quite round," replied his parent. " Well," persisted young hopeful, why do the^ papers say " so wags the world," if it ain't got no tail."

A medical advertisement; says red noses are often caused by dyspepsia. By the immortal Jove, there's the excuse this country has been prospecting for ever since the dawn of creation. What a nation of dyspeptics we are!

She was a sweetly inexperienced young housekeeper, as one may gather from her remark when some one suggested that she should, purchase spring mattresses. "Yes," she said, "if they are in season, we'd better have some."

A youth who lately arrived from the Green Isle is now employed in one of our leading banks performing clerical duties. He was recently called to account by one of his superior officers for an apparent error in his work. On further examination, however, it transpired that there had been no error on the part of the newcomer, and he waa so informed by his superior officer, who thought he had discovered a mistake. A smile of satisfaction illumined the face of the young Celt as he said, good-humouredly, " A.h !— another injustice to Ireland I"—iEgles. A Yorkshireman,, whose well caved in, contrived to make tho authorities suspect that he had murdered a man and put his body at the bottom of the well, and took things easy at the goal while they dug his well out for him. He is now suing the town for false imprisonment. -