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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1924, 4 March 1875, Page 3

A Late Sitting.—" What are you going to take—a cup of tea? " asked an honourable member of a friend in the tearoom of the House of Commons one night laa| week. " No, thanks; lam afraid it w&ld keep me awake/ was the ominous mmAfflicted with the "last infirmity of noble minds," a Paisley" printer forsook his trade to share in the glories of Nelson. Soon after he was afloat, he was, one black, stormy night, ordered aloft. The poor fellow, instead of at once throwing himself into the shrouds, looked up in 3 wild dismay at the officer, and exclaimed, \ " Od man, it wad be a temptin' o' Provin b denee to gang up there on sic a nicht!" y It is related of Wharton, the Professor of Poetry at Oxford, that, after partaking . of a Sunday dinner with, a friend, he repaired >to his service at the church. On his way ho was powerfully saluted with the cry of " Lire mackerel! M During the singing of the psalm, he slumbered in the pulpit, and on the organ ceasing he arose half awake, and instead of commencing the prayer startled the congregation hy giring in a loud voice a part of the cry still ringing in his ears—"All alive, all alive, O !" A Philadelphia reporter, in describing the turning of a dog out of court by the order of the bench, says, "The ejected canine, as he was ignominiously dragged from the room, cast a glance at the judge for the purpose of being able to identify him at some future time." What fruit is the most visionary ? The apple of the eye. 1