NO DEVIL ON THE NItiHT SHIFT. I

Manawatu Herald, 10 December 1878, Page 3

NO DEVIL ON THE NItiHT SHIFT. I

« One ©veuing, when visiting the Dundee Advertiser office with some itrangers, Mr Gilfillan got heartily merry over an amusing incident. In the absence of the entire literary staff he was shown into the editoi's room by an occasional contributor. On seeing the system of electric bells arranged on the wall at the back of the editor's chair he asked an explanation, and finding that the editor could by touch of his finger summon into his room all or any of tho heads of the departments from all parts ot the establishment, above or below, Mr Gilfillan exclaimed with a pass of his hand — "The editor here can therefore ct.ll the devils from tho vasty deep or draw an an^el down.' 1 The guide having touched the devil's bfll several times without thut personage appearing, Mr Gilfillan said, " The devil must surelj be from home, or taking a nap." The guide j having again touched tho bell, a j sedate compositor entered and informed tho astonished visitors that there were no devils there after six o'clock. The amusement of the | visitors was still more heightened when, on boing asked for the reason, the gravo.compositor exclaimed, " By an Act of Parliament no devil is allowed to woik on the night shift, or after six o'clock at night." The idea of the devil being under tho Act of Parliament caused roars of laughter.

Why is a hen sitting across a fence like a penny ? — because she has a hoad on one side and a tail on the other. Give it up.— What is the difference between a dandy, an optical contusion, and a well in which water, is frozen — The first is a nice swell, the second is an eye swell, and tlio third is an ice twell. A physician who recently conducted the^osi! mortem examinatiuh in a case of infanticide reportod thnt ho was " unable to discover whether the child was alive or not at tho time of its death." This is probably the same doctor who recently advertised thai he had removed ''from the place where he now resides."