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TOol OrFICEi COLLOGkU


The Salem, Mass, Observer says that the
following colloquy once actually took place al
a post office within few miles Of that city :


Pat say Mister Postmaster, is there let,
te, for me


p. M. Who are you, my good sir2
Pat. Pm myself, that's who am.
p. M. Well, but what is your name, sir?


Pat. By ST. Patrick, and what do you want
with me name2 ap


P. M. So that can find your letter if there
is one.


Pat Well, Mary Burns, thin, if you must
have it.


P. M. No, sir, there is none Tor Mary
Burns. ~


Pat Is there no way to get in there excpt
through this pane OF glass


P, M. No sir.


Pat Well for you there isn't. I'd tache we
better manners than 10 insist upon gentle
mans name! but you didn't git il after all, so
Pm even with ye.-Exlt Pat.


THINGUMFULLs.-A Lady at the Springs.
lately, being desirous Of obtaining the recipe
for making certain pudding, to be met no
where but at Congress Hall, applied to the su-
perintendent for the same. II was immediately
furnished in the following clear and conspicu-
GUS terms:


Take few eggs, quantity OF milk, a
thingfulI OF currants, thingfull of meal, a
thingful of wine, three thngsfull Of flour, and
sweeten to your taste


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They tell story cbout a yankee tailor dun
ming a man for the omount of his bill. The
man said he was sorry, very sorry indeed, but
he could not pay il.


'WelI.' said the tailor, i took you for man
that would be sorry; but if you are sorrer than
| am, III quit


RoMANrIo.-According to the Buffalo pa
pers, the town of Mackinaw has been the
scene of a romantic incident; female having
arrived at that place in male attire, TO obtain
redress or satisfaction from man who had
previously made her the victim OF mock
marriage. and after she had become the mother
of three children, acknowledged the fraud and
absconded. She had at last discovered his
Whereabouts, and had an interview with the
recreant on board the steamer in which she ar
rived, in the conrse which she declared her in
tention of shooting him if he did not repair
the injuries ho had done her. He escaped 10
the shore. but after some search she found
his place Of business and approached him,
but received rather a .dscouraging reception,
as he fred pistol at her, the ball from which
fell short She Immediately drew pistol and
presentedit, but upon second thought lex
claimed that "it would be a disgrace Tor even