THE JOKER.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 150, 28 July 1883, Page 8

THE JOKER.

Uneasy lies the head that has no crown. Flush times — when the young man proposes. Motto for defaulting cashier — " A duel's amang you takin' notes." " A friend iD need is a friend indeed." Is he ? Suppose he is in need of money ! Mistress : ' Why did you leare your last place ?' Applicant : ' Your very inquisitive ina'm, I didn't ask you why your last coo f left you." If you ask a bald-headed man how he would prefer to,, be upholstered, he'll likely express a desire for mo-hair on the top of his head. : Guard, why didn't you wake me?' 'Sol did, sir, three times, but all you said was, " Shawl j ri — Mary, get. the young 'uns their breakfast and I'll be down in five minutes.'" The younger lady. — 'Oh, aunt, did you observe ' what a badly-made dress Mrs Brown had on.' Aunt (who couldn't bear " that woman ").— ' Ah ! that's how it was it fitted. her so well dear — yes !' Candour. — Pastor (who was preparing his | pupils for confirmation). ' Now, my boy, tell tne who is your Spiritual and Ghostly Enemy?' Pupil (after painful hesitation).' 'Please, sir, you are, sir !' ..- -'ln what condition was the Patriarch Job at the end of his life? asked a Sunday-school teacher of a quiet looking boy at the foot of the class. " Dead," was the solemn reply, from this there was no appeal/ * A solution.— -/ Visitor (frequent — scientific young man — herwas now trying to explain the Philosophy of/ Positivism). "I .admit the question is nfostruse and complic ' She. 'Whvnot"pjop"it!?' , Scene at /a pub. — Time 2 a.m. Bell rung. \Publican Cutting his head put of the window). "' What d)/e want ?' Toper : ' I want to stay here. all /night/. ' Well, you can stay there all night, if -you like, and be d to you; only don't disturb me again. Goodnight." The^wish to please. — ' Oh ! how do yo do, my ~dear Miss Robinson, so glad to see you looking so well ! B : y the way, how lovely you looked at my dance lasß Wednesday ! Everybody was asking who you were, I assure you !' 'I? I — I — I wasn't thejre ! I had a bad. cold and sore throat, you know r . "Woman's rights!" exclaimed Henpeck, < ." woman's rights I . why look, here, my wife bosses riie^ our daughter bosses us both; the Jafidladv bosses the whole family ; and the servant girl bosses, the landlady. .Where ,is an unpro- ' .tecteicj in#je ( \jkaji! to .have a; chance-, at. managing ■tlitfshoV?" "'^ V" V; • "■> ,'/•■>- ■■.':<•.. ; ■-■■.^:K:'-- r \ V-V**'s« .*"•' •'■"<• ■■••'■■;. ' '"■ 1