Savory Morsels
Women are now being adopted as cashiers of banks, and the adoption is wise. Tbe average woman could not pack her trunks and get her clothes ready in time to skip with the~bank's funds before somebody would tumble to her racket.
*'JL can lick the snoozer that broke that wheelbarrow," remarked Mildred's little brother, whereupon the high school girl reprovingly remarked: "You should endeavour to select from youc vocabulary more genteel terms. It would be vastly better to remark that in a pugilistic encounter with the uncouth individual who impared the usefulness of the nnicycle, you iamm the stuffiing out of him." XSrcat applause iv the pit; whistling in the gallery. "Yes, sir,'* said the entomologist. " 1 can tame flies so that when I whistle they will come and alight on my hand." "Pshaw!" ?aid the bald-headed man, " that's nothing. They come and alight on my head without my whistling." The entomologist sat down. Things one would rather have-left unsaid. —Jones (aftei-liaving dubiously accepted an invitation to dine with Brown): " And you're sure you won't bedissapointed if I don't turn up?" Brown: "Oh no, I assure you; not at alll" ■
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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5089, 9 May 1885, Page 4
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192Savory Morsels Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5089, 9 May 1885, Page 4
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