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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 776, 14 February 1871, Page 3

The Chief Rabbi of the Dantzic Jews had taken a new house, and his flock determined to stock bis winebutt for him. An evening was set apart for the affair, and one after another the Jews went down into the cellar and emptied each his bottle into the big vat. When the rabbi came next day to draw off his dinner wine he found that there was nothing in the cask but water. Each and every Jew had said to himself that one bottle of water could never be noticed in so great a quantity of wine, and all acting up to this, the rabbi had not got a drop of wine in his butt. A Little Failing.—Nervous Old Lady—" Now ; cabman, you're sure your horse is quiet ? What's he laying back his ears like that for ? Look !" Cabby—" Oh that's only her femi-nine curiosity, mum. She likes to hear where she's agoin' to." Brain Work.— Fitzstypel is putting the finishing touches to a bit of realistic work which he has been painting at the rate of " a leaf and a-half a day." Yokel: " I s'pose it mun waant zum brains to do yon zort o' work, for it- wants a lot o' brain 3 to make un out when a be done."