JOKES OF OTHER NATIONS.
■WHAT BUSSIANS liAtTGH AT. " Ah, doctor, allow me to give you my heartiest thanks for that medicine you, prescribed for me." M.-So. it helped ypu very much," "Yes, imnienEely," "How many bottles did you use?" "Idid'ut drink Jany myself, bat my uncle got away with one bottle, and soon after breathed his last. I inherit all his property." : ONE FROM THE FRENCH. Two Marseilles fellows were boasting to each other about their remarkable physical attractions. •« As for me,'' said one, (( I oan'c go out into the street but every woman tarns "her head to look at me." •« That' a nothf ing, 1 '- replied the other, " I h&ye to eat onions all the time to prevent them from kissing me." ; A BRAZILIAN ATTEMPT. [ Barbosa comes home wearing a hat so big. that it. comes down over his noBB His better half raises her hands in wonderment and c ays :—" My dear, whtrejdid you buy each a hat? It doesn't fit yon -at all, and ia hot becoming." -"I Tmow that, and : Ftold the" hatter so ; "but he showed me the exposition medal so .what obhld I dp about i.\ ■:■■■ v i A OOUfiTEOCS ITALIAN. An unfortunate ' pedestrian is beset by ai hi^hwaynian in a solitary epoi The scoundrel takes bis watch and is making off with it when the victim raas i fter him, shouting 1 out Hi ! hi! sop, sir ; one word with you. Donjt trust ia that watch— its always behindhand." . .... . . r ;..__.■ n >rl I • v /Spain's cbNTRiBUTioN^ '■, . ■; v 53he]oh"ambermaid:;ito the ; cook :-p the propiietor- does'nt' ta,ke baok those wqrjds; he swd;;to^;mrlaatnighji; I jhM^&ay one dayjloiige?' id i his housei! ■:1 Wby^rbafc did he say to 30a?" «' He told me I could look for 'another plaoe." ■ J ' : !
i J, A* DANISH EFFORT; V ' '~ \ Mispress :— " Why, Bteeny, you have nsed one of my stockings to strain tuo coffee with." Steeby (new Ber?ant girl) :—' Don't be angry, missis. I didn't take one of the clean cnee.'l ■■ . ■ _■ ' : . •
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Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7032, 8 June 1891, Page 4
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329JOKES OF OTHER NATIONS. Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7032, 8 June 1891, Page 4
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