Our Irish Curate (persuasively). "Now, Doctor dear, here 's the very thing. Ye've been giving a Tenth of your Income, like a Man. Well, now, times are bad. Double it, and give a Twentieth!"
Off and On.—She had been longing for a new dress. At last the extra money was saved, and she bought it. "It's off my mind now," she exclaimed, "and, which pleases me more, it's on my body."
ENGLISH AS SHE IS WROTE. —The advertisement of an hotel in Germany concludes, after praising everything highly, with this sentence—"Accomplished drinks, captivating meats."
FRENCH TRANSLATION OF AN OLD PLAY CALLED "LOVE'S LAST SHIFT."—"La dernière Chemise de l'Amour."