"Husband, if an honest man is God's noblest work, what is an honest woman?" rarest, dear," was the uncivil reply. A Few Jersey tobacconist, with commendable frankness, advertises, " I shall continue to keep on hand imported cigars of my own manufacture."
" What bonnets are there for old ladies ? " asked a customer of a milliner magnate in New York. "We have none," was the - eply ; " you must go to Boston for those; in New York all ladies are under forty.
" What do those mean ? " said Spicer's friends, pointing to the three gold balls in front of a shop the other day. " Indians," was the reply. " Indians !" said his friend. "Yes, Pawn-ees," retorted Spicer.-—Boston Bulletin.
The new style of oath is out. Mrs Marrowfat ordered her husband to peel thc'onions for dinner, before he left the house yesterday, and Mr. Marrowfat, bringing down his fist upon the table with tnnch emphasis, observed : ** May I be cremated, Madame, if I do!" —Brooklyn Argui.
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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1743, 4 August 1874, Page 3
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