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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1821, 3 November 1874, Page 3

The Eheeald Isle.—Greenland. Foe, Kote-takeks. —Next to a diary, Ifc is more difficult to frame an excuse than an oil-painting, though they are both works of the imagination. A little boy heard his mother tell of 18 head of cattle being burnt the other night. "Weren't their tails burnt also?" he inquired. A persevering youth was recently married to a girl who had refused him 18 times. He wishes now he had asked her but 18. Beginning of a Judge's Chabge in lowa. —" Gentlemen of the jury, you must now quit eating peanuts, and attend to the case." Impossible Phrase. —" The happy rich," " the happy poor," both quite possible. But " the happy mean"—oh, no —impossible !—Punch. A manufacturing wire-worker, in an advertisement, invites the public to come and see his invisible wire-fence. A Chinaman thus describes a trial in our courts : '' One man is silent, another talks all the time, and 12 wise men condemn the man who lias rot said ti word." "And so they go," said a member «fa JSTew York' school committee ; " our great men are fast departing —first Greeley,' then Chase, and now Sumner—and I don't feel very well myself." Anothsk Monster. —An enterprising furrier " respectfully announces to ladies who wish the genuine furs, that he makes muffs, boas, &c., out of their own skins !" A Delicate Wat of Putting It.—A clergyman out Weßthas been found guilty by a church council of " not always handling the truth with sufficient carefulness to meet the demands of veracity." The Bask of England-—The Bank of England was incorporated in 1649. It covers five.acres of ground, and employs nine hundred clerks. There are no windows, looking on to the street, light is admitted through open courts. Wo mob could therefore take it without cannon to batter the walls. There is a clock in the centre of the bank, which has fifty dials attached to it., Large cisterns are sunk in the court, and engines are always in perfect readiness in case of fire. Consumption of Gas in kmvQK.—. There is now a yearly consumption of .10,000,000,000, cubic, feet of gas in London. This requires'for'its production th© distillation' of upwards of l,6tiO>Qo&. tons of coal, or more thpi 300Q every day. I