The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1880-06-26 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

FLOWERY NAME ROE TIER PEOPLE OP TUE EMERALD ISLE—The Car-nation.  It t. no sign that because a farmer is growing sage that he is becoming wise. LIGHT WElGHT.—Waiting with the gas turned full on for the old folks to go to bed. • As a rule, the flower of the family does nothing toward providing the daily bread.  NATURALLY enough, "Truth i 8 stranger than fiction," because it is not so common. GEORGE ELIOT says, "Women don't love men for their goodness." That is lucky if true. A wonx-our parent has named his first baby Macbeth, because he has "murdered sleep." WHAT tree may be said to most resemble the remains of a fine Havana cigar l—A white ash.  " MARRIAGE is often a mirage," said a bachelor. —" Celibacy is a sell," responded a Benedict. "'Tie false !" as the girl said when her fond lover told her that she had very beautiful hair.  Own hug is worth a dozen love-letters, and they cannot be introduced in a breach of proni6e suit.  " WAITER, a newspaper." "Which one, eh. ?" "The handiest." "We do not subscribe for it here, air."  "SWITCH off!" as the car conductor said to his wife when she took down her back hair before going to bed.  A PERSIAN proverb says, "Ton measures of 17k were put down upon the mirth, and the women took nine."  Tim house fly, if in good health, can lay 20,000 eggs in the season. It's a pity a fly can't be grattil on a hen.  —Lin' dresses will be worn abort this year. but this will not tend to lengthen the purses of indulgent husbands.  Nevelt own a woman right; for if you once do it. she will go wrong all the rest of her life on the conceit of it.  ROBBING " MYSTERIE," OF TIIEllt TERIIOIsign in the window of it pork-butcher in Paris reads —" Good comfortable sausages."  SAID he, as he stole one, "I seal my love with a kiss." And she, suiting the action to the word, replied, "1 seal mine with whacks." Tea burnt child dreads the fire, why does a person valo has been singed by Cupid's torch so often have a lingering regard for the old flame  A COItIt6BPONDENT wants to know whether letters unduly delayed in their transit through the postoffice entail any charge for over-wait. A Cnicsoo woman being called a bald-headed thief, let down her hair to prove to the assembly that sho was not bald, and did not wear a wig. A romricku economist says, " the best wires are cheapest." Yet every good man who has a good wife looks upon her as "a little dear." TIIS St. Louis police searched all day for a baby whose mother said it had been stolen, but which svt;s found under the bed, where it had fallen.  BEVORE marriage a girl frequently calls her intended "her treasure," but when he becomes her husband, she looks upon him as " her treasurer." " Sermens must be fearfully dishonest," said Mrs. Partington ; "it seems to be an occurrence every night for a sentry to be relieved of his watch." " CRAIMES, dear," she murmured, as they strolled along the other evening, and gazed upward at the bejewelled firmament, " which is Venus, and which is Adonis."  THE Parisian says that, as the tendency now is, the ladies will soon wear dresses so tight-fitting, that they will have to soak them in warm water in order to take them off.