The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1889-08-30 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MIXED.—Mrs. St. Louis: "I see that Richard Why had she been killed? It was mysterious. Wagner's gondola has been sold at Venice." Mrs. One of the " cops " with me was so puzzled that he Chicago: " Why, I thought that Wagner was the ieclared it must be a case of suicide. I saw that sleeping-car man!" Mrs. St. Louis: " Oh, no! she had been strangled, and I wondered what a Wagner the composer, you know. The gondola was strong fellow the murderer must have been to have his favourite instrument. twisted, with fatal effect, so soft a band as a handkerchief about so big aud solid a neck, and to do it MR. MERRY wErnim, Q.C., was once accosted in so deftly and powerfully as to prevent an outcry, of the. street by a stranger who rood to him, "1 believe even a struggle. It takes a good deal of pressure sw you, are Serjeant Jones ? " "Sir," said the to squeeze in a whole neck BO tightly as to cause Q..,,it you believe that, I have no hesitation in death. saying that you would believe anything ! "—and he But when I came to examine more closely i.iouna stalked oar. that a novel and ingeuious device had been employed MISS DEERHEATIT : "To-morrow is Mr. Slowto make the job easier. Folded into the handker- boy's birthday, and I desire to make him a present. chief, and placed so that it would press directly He has been visiting me for two years, and I should upon the windpipe was a, potato, about the size of like my gift to convey a delicate hint. What should * hen's egg. While turning that tuber over in my I give him?" Mr. Ringseller : "Au initial ring hand I noticed that there were two deep curving with a double you in it ought to do the business."; outs in the smooth, creamy skin, such as would be LITTLE Bobby imparted to an old maiden-lady made by finger nails clutching it, and in each showed visitor the im2ortaut information that his father a thin Hue of blue colour. At first I thought no- had got a new set of false teeth. "Indeed, Bobby," thug of that, for I knew that sonic potatoes have a returned the old lady curiously. "And what will dolmas skin of violet tint under the white outside, he do with the old set ? " "Oh, I s'pose," replied But, when I looked more carefully, I saw that this Bobby, "they'll cut 'em down and make me wear potato had no such coloured second skin, and I 'em ! ' obsarved that the blue colour seemed to go dcepoi AN Englishman was boasting to a Yankee that than merely the surface, they had a book in the British Museum which was Who, I asked myself, would be likely to habitu- once owned by Cicero. "Oh, that ain't nothin' !" ally carry under his finger-nails such an abundance retorted the Yankee. "In the museum in Besting of colour as would leave deposits like these? Well, a they've got the very saute lead-pencil that Noah dyer for one. Yes, of course, a dyer; but there were used to check off the animals with as they went iutc more dyers in the city,for aught I kuew, than one the Ark ! " could shake a stick at, and it would be ridiculous tc seek a blue-handed dyer, since hands that were blue A Quasmost of Gender.— A. correspondent says that in a Fran& examination-paper this question 1 ouo day might be red or green the next. I was put: "Give the gender of ' tete-a-tete' with The newspapers, the next day, in their sensational comments." The answer returned by one of the treatment of the incident, characterised it as a pru- manatees was: " ' Tete-a-tote ' is of the common hound mystery,and said that the police had absolutely . gender, because it usually takes place between a man no clue to the murderer. As I had hoped, that and a woman." encouraged some person who had known Harriet 1 JOHNNY: Waidrop to come torward. A small,neatly dressed, "Pa, piuch Mr. Green now, will you, respectable looking, middle-aged man, with keeu before I have to go to bed ? " Freshly (of the Stock Exchange, who is eutertaiuing Mr. Green, a future furtive eyes, and an habitually deprecatory manlier, I victim) : "What do you meatu, Johnny?" Johnny : pl.:muted himself at the inquest. Ile came to see if " Why, I hoard you tell ma this noon that we must the woman, whose death he had read of in the