"Yes, brethren," said the clergyman who was preaching the funeral seiinon, "our deceased brother'was cut down hi a single night—torn from the. arms of his loving wife, who is thus loft a widow at the ago of twenty-eight years." "Twentysix, if yon please," sobbed the widow m the front pew, as she emerged for an instant from her handkerchief. "I tell yon," said one man to another as they emerged from the corridor of a concert hall, "I envy that fellow who was sineing." "Envy Trim r echoed the other. ''"Well, if I were going to envy a singer I'd select somebody with a better voioo. His was about as poor as I ever heard." "If s not Ms voice I envy, man, was tho reply; "ifs his tremendous courage." I would rather see Tariff Reform postponed indefinitely than that the Unionists should make any bargain with the Irish Nationalists on the question of Home Rulo.-The Earl of Derby. Phrenologist (to fellow-passenger): "Ex cuso me, but am I right in taking you for n. professional man? Fellow-passenger: "Yes, sir." Phrenologist: "Thanks. It's not often that I make a mistake in judgin" my fellow-men. Your work is head work altogether, of course?" Fellowpassenger: "Oh, yes, entirely so."Phrenologist: "Er-lawyor?" Fellow-pas-eenjeri No, air, barber." • j
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 805, 30 April 1910, Page 13
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