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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3866, 25 July 1873, Page 3

Two men exert themselves to no purpose — one is the man who tries to have the last word with his wife ; and the other is he who, having had the last word, tries to make her confess that she is in the wrong. This is the way a Waupaca justice of the peace divorced a couple ho had married a year before. He stood them in the middle of the floor, backs together, and as they walked away from each other, he repeated the marriage ceremony backWards. An Irishman passing through a village near Chester, Perm., saw a crowd approaching, wbich made him inquire what was the matter. He was answered : ' A man is going to be buried.' f Oh,' replied he, 'I'll stop to see that, for we carry them in the old country.' A Scranton man who went home the other evening and found his house locked up, after infinite (rouble managed to gaiu entrance through a back window, aud then discovered on the parlor table a note from his wife, reading : — ' I have gone out ; you will find the key on the step.' What form of government is the most popular nowadays P — Eeform. A short time since, a surgeon was called as a witness, for the purpose of proving damages in an action of assault. He deposed that he had bled the plaintiff; and being asked if bleeding had been necessary, candidly answered, ' Wealways find it necessary to do something when sent for.' An active little girl, whose parents adopted the repression system of keeping the Sabbath, once confidently informed a visitor that sho ' would like to be a minister, so that she could holler o_ Sunday.'