The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1877-02-09 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

ASKFP. I deces- mii,querad,s," said 9 ''ful 1.6 to a r:Aliont " No giv,..:or, otnd,:o  ,phed, " ',PCB yt.ll 60 BO muca exECir ion On  The troubles of the TenneeFe doctors are greater ho the:, c,n flour. 11 th, p revert, he neser •.i t hi, doctor's bid ; alod u ab he re:utires L. • • .:10CtOr.  On the walls of a Lancarh ire r'lure. vntsy I e seen the oweg: " anyhodySl alne b. cm:Oust thir ohorrh •I; be proaeoutA ucenrciing to 'Los or any ottn,  A young widow was asked who she was going to h, ,iod so soon alter the death of bee tirsi 01. Is!" said he. "1 do it to preven, fretting ni)trii o death on account of dear Tom."  The ladies of St. LOLtil, gave Miss Neilson a recipand each ladv ealmed a his, which the fLIr vt,ress grhc,iully granted : and now the gentlem,n want to give her a receron, too.  INinceen of eiery twenty persons who write a family I letter, after closing an injunction to " write again as Man as you can," tilt back and devoutly evciaim, 'Thenk goodness, that job is done" "Have you tasteli that new drink they've got up?" asked one toper of anu'her. "No; what do they sail lit ? " " Water, If I'm sot mistaken : and a little of it fleP a great way, so they use it sparingly." The latest In the way of suicides is that man in A f•ertuan prism who turned on the gas, put his nose to lite burner, and inhaled till he was insensib!e. The !attendants found him, and he is recovering.  By rely lee on our own resources we acquire mental etrereth ; nut when we lean on others tar support, we are like an invalid who, li,vine accuetoined himself to a crutch, nude it diilicult to walk without one,  A fast youth arrived at a restauran.. "What have I you got "Almost everything, ' was the reply. 1" Almost everything! Well, yr, ve me a plate of that." " Certainly. One plate bash!" the waiter. ' To see Iriw elgerly a human being will catch at a straw it is not neeemiary to witness a drowning. The phenomenon Is now mnifeeted chiefly within ban, where one end of a straw is immersed ins tumbler.  Cleopatra has always been wondered at for her extravagance in dissolving a pearl in her dralk. A great many min in our time have dissolved greater fortunes in drinks than the beautiful lilgyptian.—Anterican rprr.  There is a growing feeling ainong the American people that the man who can hear a fellow-mortal complain of a cold in the head. and abstain from telling him what to do for it, is the man who should be the next Preeident.  A member of an American club objected to the publics ion of the list of the meetong nights of the club, " because," he mid, "if it's published, we married men will have to account for the off-nights." The motion to publish was lost. Mr. Brown cause home late the other night, and Mrs. Brown, looking out of the bedroom window, observed, "ho you've been tipping the glass again, have you ?" "Glum," said Brown. "that's (bic) funny word; take off toe G, and it's you, my dear." "Ye,," answered lire. Brown, "and then take off the L, and it's you," and ebe slammed the window down with a bounce.  If the promise contained in the following miner-. tisewent is pert ormed, the linguistic powers of Balsam's NS will these to be marvellous: "To be sold. six cows. No. 1, a beautiful cow, calved eight days, with splendid rail at foot; a good milker. No. 2, a cow to calve in about fourteen days, and great promise. The other two cows are calved about twentyione days, and will Teak fix Mt msilres.  From Dublin: " Your picture In 'May Fair 'of fellow with such on his back, lettered ' G.P.O„' puts me in mind of a story. In the year 1843, in the height of the repeal agitation, an English newspaper man named Trevelysn, travelling In this part of the country, asked his car-driver what was the meaning of the letters ' G.F.0.,' which he saw on the milestones. 'That's atoll, explained, yer honour,' said the driver; 'they're just put there to stand for God preserve O'Connell."  ME.