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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2101, 28 September 1875, Page 2

Sleeping in Chubch. — A charity sermon was preached in a well-known West End church, and the collectionboxes being handed round for con* tributions. The person in charge of one of the boxes arrived in due course at an eminent Q.C., seated in the corner of a pew, who had not awoke from his sermon nap. A vigorous nudge arovsed the somnolent one; he glanced sleepily at the box, and then, smiling blandly, said in an audible tone*-" Thank you, I don't smoke, and quietly dropped o§ again". ' Therp is a man in new York sq fat that a child was repently killed by his shadow falling on it. This was a fat-al accident.

A little American lad who had just commenced reading the newspapers asked his father if the word " Hon." prefixed to the name of a member of Congress meant "honest."

The Sutter Banner thus coldly treat* the offering of an aspiring tyro:—"We have gone over it with a four-horae magnifying glass and found nothing worthy of being put in print. We may be casting a gem in the wa«te«ba«iket, but we rather guess'not'."