MISCELLANEOUS.

Thames Star, Volume XIX, Issue 5825, 30 September 1887, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

One of the most mortifying experiences in the life of a man is to have somebody atk him the time of day while his watch is at the jeweller's for repairs. He absent* mindedly takes out a bnnch of keys attached to the chain for the purpose of keeping it in place, and the more he says 'jeweller,' the more the other fellow thinks ' pawnbroker.'

' Did you execute this deed without fear or compulsion from yopr husband V blandly asked Judge N—of a large, fierce looking woman in a law suit. 'Fear or compulsion! He compel me! You don't know me.' The judge remarked in a low Toice tbat he was glad of it. "

A little girl who had listened to a tern* peranee address for the first time in heir life was so impressed and interested that she weut home and wrote oat the follow* ing rather novel pledge:~»' I promise not to drink rum. or vrioo, or brandy, or smoke, or swear, or cidrr either.' Sh© signed it, and got several of her playmates to sign iifslsQ.'

The editor prspared a paragraph in which be said : " We regret to say that Mr Dash is hopelessly ill." Before going to press Mr Dash died, and a hasty alteration WBB made in (be sentence, to meet the new condition of affairs. When Mr Dash's friends read in their paper, " We regret to any that Mr Dash is hopelessly dead," they were naturally shocked.