ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2244, 15 March 1886, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

While holding the circuit at Warsaw, B——, a dentist was put upon the itand to prove a conversation with the, plaintiff. On cross-examination one of the counsel asked him if he had not had trouble with the plaintiff, B—- said ho had not. " Well," said the colnißel, "did you not make a set of teeth for his wife f Witness: Yes. Counsel: Did not the plaintiff find fault with them ? Witness; Yes. Counsel: Does she wear them ? Witnoss: Yes. Counsel; She has another act made by another dentist, has she not ? Witness: Yes, Counsel; Is Bhe not wearing them \ Witness; Yes. Here Judge G— thought it \m time • for him to interfere. " Well, witness," said he, "w you mean to say she is now wearing bM seta of teeth?" "Yes," said the witness, very com' posedly. , . "Well," said the judge, "justexp&ra to us how that can be." ; *' Why, your Honour," said the '' she has one in each jaw f ~.,

Trying to do, business without advertis- • ing is like winking at a girl in the dark, You may know what you are doing but no one else does.;

An Irishman, just landed in this country on a sharp frosty morning, was run at by a fierce noisy mastiff who threatened to devour him, whereupon Pat stooped down and seized a stone, with whioh he expected to stave in his assailant's frontispiece, but found the stone frozon fast. A fine land of liberty," soliloquised Pat ':sulkily, " where they let their dogs loose and tie their stones fast to the ground!"

At a franchise demonstration at Galashiels, Scotland, a man was observed in the procession staggering along, jvith a huge banuor, on which was, igfcribedi "Down with tho Peers!" o™bjeuiß asked why he was so muoh peers who had never havmed him, he replied, " I dinna ken wjjat ye'ro sprying j but T wish peers, were doan to tho same price as aipjea," When, Sir George Rose was dining with the late Lord Langdale, his host spoke offt the very diminutive church in Langdale, P of which his Lordship was patron, •." It is not bigger," said Lord Langdale "than this dining room." " No," returned Sfo> George, "and the living not half' 10, sood!" ..."•;

A well-known physiojafl, to a certaifl town, was very muoh annoyed by an old, lady, who always sure to accost him, in the street for the purpose of telling oven her ailments. Once sho met hjux a$ he was in a very great hurry. w Ab, | see you are quite feeble," doctor! ** your eyes and show, n\e yow tongue," aiid the doctor, quietly moving off, left her standing there for some tiro* in this ridictiloils position, to the infifuta. amusement of all who witnessed the scene.

A Dutchman, tho other day reading an account of a meeting, oame to the .'words, *' the meeting then dissolved." He could not define the meaning of tho ho referred to his dictionary, aflflPfelfc satisfied. In a few minutes a friend came in, when Honty said, "Dey must hav werry hot wedder dure in Now York. I ret an agount of a mooting vore all do peoples hab melted away."