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Patea Mail, Volume XII, Issue 12, 14 May 1886, Page 2

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George Washington Napoleon Jaqkaon Hannibal Harrison. “ Yea ma’am.” ..-‘‘lTell Josephine Rosina Cleopatra Matilda yTiotbriia to bring up the slop pail.” “ Yes, ma'am. A gentlemau addicted to taking snuff, let his handfer rchief fall; stooping to pick it up,-'Jjo seized bold of a lady’s dress, wiped his nose'with it. and then commenced stuffing it into hia coat pocket. He did not discover his mistake till a some what irrascible gentleman kicked him cut of the house. Ah absent-minded professor, in going out of the gateway of his college, ran against a cow. la-the confusion; of drift, raisedbis hat and exclaimed, “ I beg your pardon, madam.” Soon after, be stumbled against a lady in the street, In sudden recollection of the former., mishap, he called,out, ft Isthafcyou again, you brute.” In the obituary notice of a lady the editor wrote “It is feared that her husband willnot not be able to boar her demise”whiohthe careless compositor, with but the change of two letters, transformed to, “ It ia feared that her husband will rot be able to wear her chemise.” The horror of the bereaved htiuband, and of the editor, and of the mourning relatives, may be imagined. - . Served Him Right. . The late Sir Allen Macnab has a reputation in Canada for something else besides. politics. Ho was travelling once on One of the steatners on Lake Ontario. The state rooms each contained two berths, and the boat being crowded Sir Alien; was allotted a cabin ia which some other person was given the lower berth. On the morning after[starting,Sir Allen,having over night placed his comb, tooth-br.ußb, &c., ou the washstand, ,was surprised while: lying in, his berth to see his fellow-passenger use his (Sir Alan’s) tooth-brush ; and thinking it but fair to have a joke at the man’s expense, jumped out of .bod) and .a.baeiQ of water,? put bis feet in it, and soaping the tooth-brush, began to wash his toes with it* . > ' ;

- Say’ stranger,” cried the horrified looker-On “ you don’t use that brush to olean your toes f” “ Why what else would you suppose 1 1 use it for ?” was Sir Allen’s reply, f" “ Well I’m darned !” exclaimed the stranger, rushing from the state-room throughly disgusted. : The brash was given to the poor.