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Evening Star, Issue 5590, 7 February 1881, Page 3

—« • i' "J" ■■ ■' i" ' i= Courtship ia the engagement or siege, proposal Sa the assault, and matrimony ia the viotory. "Why dJnna ye get married; Jock?' inquired the beadle's wife of the parish simpleton. " They say I'm daft," was the reply, " but I'm no sae daft as that." Seven doctors gathered round him, Three said it was sunstroke, two heart disease, two epilepsy, but the small boy proved it was orange peel. Promising.—Bluff old gentleman: Are you the porter I promised a glass of ale to the next time I came down the line 1 Porter : Well, sir, I feel as how it ought to be me, anyhow. T^Z Civil Service Exam. Question.—How would you support a proposal to remote the Probate offise from Somerset House to the Sandwioh Islands!—By quoting the old proverb "Where there's a will there's Hawaii." ! At a iate military dinner one of the visitors proposed a toast—" May the man who has lost one eye in the service of his country never see distress with the other t ! Bat the Eerson whose duty it was to read the toast, y omitting the word "distress," completely \chenged the sentiment, and coused much merriment by the blunder, A married gentkman, evey time he met i the father of his wife, complained to him of 1 the ugly temper and disposition of bis daughter, At lait, upoa one occasion, the old gentleman, becoming weary of tho grumblog of his sonin-hw, (exclaimed, *' You are right; she is an impertinent jade, and if I hear any mere complaints of her I will disinherit her."