The rapidity of ocean transport is becoming truly marvelous. A sea captain boasts that he finished loading a cargo of wheat at San Francisco by dinner time, and then went to China for tea.
"You are making yourself rather officious in this crowd," said a burly policeman to a notorious pickpocket. "I am only trying to dis-purse them," said the thief.
The slats of the shutter of our office-window are in a dilapidated condition. "Please help the blind."
"Did you ever catch your husband flirting?"
"Yes; that's the very way I did catch him."
A deaf and dumb mute recently went into a bicycle shop and picked up a hub and spoke.