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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2039, 17 July 1875, Page 2

.About Dinnebs.—-As to the "best number of guests : for" "an "agreeable dinner," ifc is probable that the world will never agree. Gfcimod do la Reyniere: A preferred three to any other number, and would not, on any account, suffer six to be exceeded... The " finest gourmands of T modern France and modern England" have declared 12 to be " permissable." But .the most humorous."view- ever, talfen. ." of the subject is attributed to a cettajnjj! "President of the Tribunal at Avignon," . who remarked to a friend.. one day :— " By my faith, we have just had a superb, turkey. It was excellent, staffed $o ,tho bealf with trufljes, tender as. a:. chipken, fat as an ortolan, aromatic as a thrush,. By my j faith, we left nothing but it< bones ! " " And how many were there of you ? " inquired the friend.- '.' Only, two," answered- the other with, a gentle" l - smilo. ■ «<Only two!" exclaimed the-."i-astonished hearer. " Precisely »o/! rei-it-plied the lawyer; "there was myself, and there was—th«-turkey.'- ;..As,-to dining alone, there are many reason* for and against it 3 but one of the objectioni was forcibly put by Thepdore-Hook, wlio, : ; laid, ", When one dines alone,.the .bottle ; does come round, so. fa«t."~Frpm Cham- ' bers! Journal.. . .>.' ..,., ;'-.-' ',) i. . . .;^'. ; ." You're-the- rictim'.bf'runfi 1'- said;.a' r<;'; crusader to a veteran spiritualist.' '^'S'aro''^ you, madam," he replied; "I never touched a drop of rum in my life. Whisky's my poison."