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Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1686, 29 May 1874, Page 2

The law is not cheap, although it is always had. at cost.- ---" So the doctor is practising in the country, is he?" said an old lady. " Well, I'm glad of it, for I always thought that he needed practice ! "

We think it barbarous that girls should sold for wives by their parents in Turkey; yet we should remember. that in this country not a day passes without a bride being given away by her father.The custodian of what has been Garibaldi's straw-stuffed bid iat Ischia was heard to mutter, on seeing a lady carry away a few straws as a relic, "They will do it; Ive stuffed it six times already' since the General left." . *

■ A careless barber, trimming Sheridan 1! hair, gave him great pain and uneasiness. "Are you trimming the hair over my left ear now?" asked the wit. "M sir; not till I've done the right." "Oh* I thought by what I felt that you- were passing through to the left ear without going round."

Smith says he v going to get a divorce. He has got chills and fever. His wife broke a burglar's back the other night, knocked out three of his teeth, sprained his leg and broke his arm. , She said she would not hare done it in such style only she was under the impression that it was her husband coming in the back way tipsy. , *

A story is told of a party that mt down to the first pound of tea that ever came into Penrith. It was sent as a present, and without directions how to use it. Ihey boiled the whole pound at once in a kettle, and sat down to eat the leaves with butter and salt! It is added that these primitive tea-drinkers called it 'foreign greens," and "wondered how any person could ever like such a diet,/

The other day a bricklayer gave his boy twopence, and told him to go and buy a couple of German sausages. The young rascal went to .the nearest shop, v bought the eat the larger, and took the other back to the workman " Well, but where's the other?" was the* natural question. "Why, this is the other, replied the youug scamp with the utmost effrontery. Stbetch or Pjbiviluge.—-Daughter of the house (to a privileged old friend of the family); « Dear Mr Lupus, you don't seem to be enjoying yourself. I ghould so like to have you waltz this once with T;, T privileged old friend: "My dear child, I don t. dance; but, if it suits you, I wouldn'f mind sitting Eere with my arm round your waist, while the others make themselves dizzy." The power of the human eye over beasts has been often mentioned, but more rarely verified. An instance ii ": given of a recent curious experiment ' which is worth recording. Professorarf elocution, who is a believer in the infiS-** enee of the eye, in. the presence of seve- « ral friends selected a ferocious .bull, ' which was the ttrror of the neighbour! hood, as the object of his experiment. The scienfaftc gentleman sauntered into the pasture where the bull was peacefully grazing, and without lost of time fix. edhis eye on the dangerous animal. The next thing the bystanders saw™. £v«n Pc fCt;ClB £ ProfeMOT i seven feet in the air. *