Savory Morsels.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5069, 14 April 1885, Page 3

Savory Morsels.

A man died in Buffalo the other day from the effects of cutting a corn. He .out the toe, gangrene set in. and he died. Another roan died in New York from cutting one of his girls, while he was walking with another. The girl's feelings were lacerated, chagrin set in, and she shot him. *.': : . According to a decision of a Quiney de • bating club, there is more pleasure in seeing a man threading a needle than a woman driving a nail. ' Never judge of a man's character by the uffibrella he carries. The probability is that it is not his own. Dr Barton, on being told that Mr Vowel was dead, exclaimed: "What! Vowel dead? Let us be thankful it was neither v nor i." There is a good-story told about a prominent Presbyterian minister. He is a generous giver to all works of benevolence, and, passing a ladies' missionary meeting, where they were packing boxes for the poor heathen in the South seas, he informed the ladies that if they would send to his house, there was a large handle of half-used clothing which had boen prepared for them. They at once sent a messenger to the house. The pastor and his good wife were both out, but the servant girl, upon the enquiry of the man for the bundle of clothes, jumped to the conclusion that it was the laundryman, and gave bim a huge bundle prepared for that individual. Everything was peaceful until near the end of the week, when, upou investigation, the actual state of facts was divulged. The clergyman made baste to the missionary rooms, but too late; the family washing had days before gone steaming toward some distant point in the Pacific.