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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 71, 24 November 1887, Page 2

There is no good crying over spilt milk. It may be three parts water. Professor Cram calls a primrose “a coroll inoral dictroyledonous exogen,” bat bu wouldn’t do it if the prim ose was able to hitb/ck. Some men are terribly overbearing to Mar da the weak. “ Well, Harry, what are you doing now» adays ?” “ Writing for the press. ” “Thankless sort o’ work ain’t it?” “Bless your heart, no. ’Bout everything I write is returned with thanks.” A scientific gentleman has had the blood of a live lamb introduced into his veins as a remedy for general deMlity. It is probable that there will be no unusual affect save an abnormal fondness for all girls named Mary. It seemed rather unkind in tbe pastor of a church afrer the choir had finished what they considered a splendid musical perfo.mAnc', to begin reading from the Bible in tha twentieth chapter of Acts, the chosen passage beginning. “ And after the uproar had ceased.”

A man, who had visited a theatre, was asked which member of the company hu in)st admired. “The p.ompter, ”wt his reply, “for I heard the most and saw t ie hast of him.” A computation just made a good data shows that there are in England no .v about 3,000,000 working women, of whom one-half are in domestic s•:vice ; further, th**, hilf the working class families in the country a n e partially or wholly main ained by wou*tH», who are widows, or the wives of aiok or drunken husbands, or the of uged, afflicted, or dissolute parents, aud that the must of the latter work at extremely low wages.