A schoolmaster in a northern district, which for obvious reasons is not named, received the following note from the “ ostensible ” parent of one of his pupils “ I hope as to my John you will flog him just as aflh as you kin, Heas a bad boy—is John, Altho I’ve been in the habit of teaching him miself, it seems to me he never will lam anything—his spelling his ottrageously defishent. Wallop him well, ser, and you will receive my thanks. P.S.—What accounts for my son bein sich a bad skolar is that he is my son by my wife’s fust husband.” A Baptist minister was once asked how it was that he consented to the marriage of his daughter to a Presbyterian. “ Well, my dear friend,” he replied, “as far as I have been able to discover, Cupid never studied theology.” A young lady the other day, when asked by the officiating minister “ "Will you love, honor, and obey this man as your husband, and be to him a true wife?” said plainly “Yes, if he does what he promised me financially.” “Do you see that spring over there?” said a settler in Arkansas to a stranger. *' Well, that’s an iron spring, that is; and it’s so powerful that the farmers’ bosses about here that drink of it never have to be shod. The shoes just grow on their feet nat’rally. ”
The Order of the Bath.—Soap and towels for one.
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Evening Star, Issue 6915, 30 May 1885, Page 2
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