A man who had been asked to make his after-dinner speech as short, as possible, rose and said: "I am asked to propose the toast of Mr Jobson. ._ I have been told that the less said about him the better." "Have you ever been in prison?" asked the magistrate sympathetically. "Oh, no, never!" cried the prisoner, breaking into tears. "There, there," consoled the other. "Don't cry. • You're going to be." An encounter which occurred. "^atGloucester Cathedral is related by D>T~ Brewer, the organist. A visitor being told that he could not enter without a ticket during the festival, .rhetorically exclaimed, "Shall I require a ticket to enter the^ Kingdom of Heaven?" "Well, no," replied the steward, seeking to be tacfful, "but you won't hear Madame Blank ih "the Kingdbttt of Heaven.'' The full implication of t the remark only dawned on. him later. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure First aid for coughs, colds, inflne-wfj, ~ ■
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3250, 31 August 1928, Page 4
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