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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2122, 22 October 1875, Page 2

British manners and customs erer prove a fertile source of amusement to Gallic critics, and a French contemporary has now been chaffing what he calls our "sixth sense," the bump of travelling, j Ho maintains,.however, that we do xatf^M always travel for the love of the th/j^-f^ and tells the following story as a proof; —" Twenty years ago a Liverpool steampacket Company wanted to extend its premises, and resolved to buy a piece of hind belonging to a maiden lady of ' an uncertain age.' The spinster sold the land at a very low price, and as a set-off requested that a clause should be put ia the agreement to the effect that during her whole life she and a companion should at any time travel free in the company's vessels. The day after the agreement was sfeijed she sold b/erfurnitures let' hei? house and went oti board the first outward bound vessel belonging to the company, without troubling herself about the destination. Since then the lady has always lived on one ship or other, always accompanied by a companion for whom she advertises, and whose passage-money she pockets. Bhe is reckoned to have made over £2000 by the transaction, and the company have offered her upwards of this sum for her privilege, but cannot get qujt of her a.f any price." \

"■ What's your business?" asked the judge of a prisoner at the bar. .*< Well, s'pose you might call me a locksmith." "When did you last work at your trade F " "Last night when I heard a call for "the police, I made a bolt for the door."

Milk is our first driuk, but we come to the bier at last.—St. Louis -Journal,