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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2145, 18 November 1875, Page 4

Honey.—Some of the company at tea with a Danbury family spoke of the excellence of tbe honey, whereupon the head of the house, who stands in reputed dread of his wife, feelingly said " Honey is the most delicious of delicacies. It is the nectar of beautiful flowers, sipped from the brilliant petals by the nevertiring bee, and moulded into a glory that would tempt the god of ~" " Ephraim," enunciated his wife, with a stern solemnity, "have you been drinking again? " Ephraim groaned. See for Yotjbself.—Podder was attacked with an ailment for which his doctor prescribed calomel. After he had taken it for some time, the doctor asked him one day if the medicine had in any manner affected his teeth "I don't know," faintlj whispered Podder," butyou can see ; they are in the top drawer of the bureau. Mrs Podder will hand them to you."

Easily -Explained.—A Manchester fh'in which takes all its employees for a day's trip to the seaside during the summer, decided last year to visit Blackpool. It is the general custom of the workers to have a dip in the sea before beginning the usual amusements. " Eh, mon, bow-dirty ye are ! " said one hale Lancashire lad to his fellow - bather. "Missed the trip last year," was the laconic rejoinder. Social Tribulation. —To no one is this hot weather so severe as the bashful young .^man who wears paper collars. These oppressive evenings are just the ones he is invited out to parties, and the look of horror on his face as he feels his collar dissolving into pulp, and crumbling down his neck, cannot very well be counterfeited. —Danbury News,

. " Were you drunk ?" asked a lawyer of a witness. "Well," was thereply, "I had been drinking so much I couldn't tell whether I was sober or not."

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