Amusing.

Bruce Herald, Volume IX, Issue 804, 19 May 1876, Page 3

Amusing.

Some people will be over polite. " Don't trouble yourself.'"' " I can find the way myself." *' Oh nonsense, my dear. I'm very pleased, indeed, to show you out." A New York temperance lecturer says one of the chief causes of the present financial depression is alcoholic indulgence. The Boston * Post ' asks : " Does he mean to say, that money is * tight'?" Forward and loquacious youth — "By Jove, you know — upon my word, now,— if I were to see a ghost, you know, I would be a chattering idiot for the rest of my life." Ingenuous maiden — " Haven't you seen a ghost ?" " Ann," observed a Danbury housekeeper to the hired girl, the other morning, "as we have entered upon the dawn of another century of our nations history, I guess you had better get a tooth-brush of your own." " I like to go to the Windsor Hotel," said a facetious traveller, " for it furnishes me with an unfailing pun. I get a man to the window when the hreezit is coming in off the sea, and remark. " This is the wind, sir." Among the premiums recently given at the Eaton County Fair was one of ten dollars to the woman going longest without a new dress. The woman who won it put it to such good use that she cannot win another of the same sort this winter. At a woman's convention a gentleman remarked that a woman was the most wicked thing in creation. " Sir," was the indignant reply of one of the ladies, " woman was made for man, and if one rib ia so wicked, what must the whole body be ?" A lady writes as follows on Christmas Day : — " Upwards of twenty men will be hanged between now and January 1. There are half a million women in Great Britain in business for themselves." The sequence of the lady's ideas is not difficult to follow.