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Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 311, 4 January 1879, Page 1 (Supplement)

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+ . A Matter of Taste.— Tippling. ! People that Go to Pot.— Gardener*. Good Place for Chiropodist*. -^-Among Corn-iah men. '» j . ' What a Dressmaker can Boaat.~" I'm engaged to sew and sew." „^ jTake away woman and what would follow ?— The men. • ' I Another Natural History Fact. — One swallow doesn't make a Bpring, bat ono blacksmith can. ' I Put This in an Incubator.— 'Tine question is asked whether poaching ,egga can bo considered sports manlike behaviour. We have just been thinking how language came in the world 14 was, during Adam and Eve's first quarrel, when one word brought on another. Some people would not i/ok through Galileo's glass, lost they should -be convinced of the truth of hia theories. Their descendants may be found in ali and sects, and creeds. \ That Settled the Argument. — A fetaout artist once painted an angel with six ftoes. " Who ever Baw an angel with six toes r" people inquired. "Who ever saw ono with less ?" was the counter-question. "Jeanie," eaid a staunch old Cameraman to his daughter, " it's a vary solemn thing to be married. " "I ken that weel^ father," replied the sensible lasuie ; " bat it's a great deal solemner not to be." The domestic man who loves no iuusio so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the. hearth, has solace which otideru never dream of. — Emerson. Skug often conceals deep -and tender emotions. Speaking of a lady the other day, a young man remarked that he expected to "bag" her, but, instead of that she had sacked him. " That's the sort of umbrella that people appropriate," said a gentleman to a companion one morning, showing him a very handsome one. " xc«," rejoined hit companion, quietly, " I thought bo when I saw you holding it." Useful Lesson. — The Nation thinks that a part of the drill of every girls' school ought to be the reception by a wife in an old gown, to a dinner of corned beef and cabbage, of an unlooked-for guest, thoughtlessly brought home by a reckless husband, A Saratoga correspondent writes :— A girl who will sit with a fellow all night on the stairs at a ball, with no clothes on above her waiet worth speaking of, would faint away dead if the same fellow were to meet her on the stairs, muffled from head to foot in three nightgowns. Curious. isn't it ? Never. — " What a piece of work is man I How noble in reason ! How infinite in faculties 1 In form and moving how express and admirable ! In apprehension, how like a god I" And yet, somehow or other, he never looks that when he it backed up to a pea-nut stand taking in a tail-pocket cargo of pea-nuta. An observer sayp there are a great many men in the world who imagine that they are born with genius, and lie dovni on the sofa and wait for inspiration, until some other *ellow, who thought himself a dunce, rises by hard labor to a competency, buys the sofa, and leads the waiting genius out by the ear. Thia ia not a joke ;itis a fact. y- *,--' -> Freedom !—-" Tie house is. so lonesome without you and .the dear children," writes Smith now to his absent Wife, who is with the family at Margate. Bat tHio faithful maid-of-all-work writes — "Shure, mum, Mr. Smith hasn't been in until 12 o'clock niver a night since you left." Spare Diet. — A witty gentleman, in speaking of a friend who waa prostrated by illness, remarked that he could hardly recover, since his constitution waa all gone. "If his constitution is all gone," said a bystander, " I do no's seu how he lives at all." " Oh," responded th« wag, " he lives on tho bye-laws ?" "Bangs" is Good. — In a recant American story it is said of the heroine that she "curved her scarlet lips and raised her eyebrows clear int-> her bangs." On inquiry it haa been found that " lbanga " is the euphonious and poetic name by which American girls designate their " fringes." A Miserable Savage — A Nevada paper has an account of an Indian who, in a xecenc flood, picked up a handful of money a drunken white man had thrown down, and next day hunted him up and returned it. You never can civilise an Indian. — . Nashville American. The New Judge. — A new recipient of judicial honors in Alabama waa reminded, after the argument in a case that waa being tried before him was closeel, that he should charge the jury, and rose and said — " Gemmen of de jury, I charge you half a dollar a piece, and I say you must pay it before de case goes on." Gayer Subjects Wanted. — The Frwnch ladies were looking at the pictures in the Paris Salon. "So I hear," said one, "a celebrated painter haa finished a picture for you." "Yes, he has graciously consented to paint the portrait of my husband for my drawing-room." "Indeed," said the first Bpeaker ; " well for a room like that I think I should have chosen a gayer subject/