The young man sidled into the jeweler's shop with a furtive air. He handed the jeweler a ring with the stammered statement that he wished it marked "with some names."
"What names do you wish?" inquired the jeweler in a sympathetic tone.
"From Henry to Clara," the young man blushingly whispered.
The jeweler looked from the ring to the young man, and said in a fatherly manner: "Take my advice, young man, and have it engraved simply, 'From Henry.'"
JUDGE—"The police say that you and your wife had some words."
PRISONER—"I had some, but didn't get a chance to use them."—Puck.
At the end of three weeks of married life, a Southern darky returned to the minister who had performed the ceremony and asked for a divorce. After explaining that he could not grant divorces, the minister tried to dissuade his visitor from carrying out his intention of getting one saying: