How to Make a Lady Stick out Her Little Finger.—The best way of securing this effect is to put on the finger a diamond ring. The mere desire to display the diamond to the best advantage is sure to make the lady stick out her little finger in the most charming manner possible. When the effect begins to fail, substitute another ring of greater brilliancy.
Addendum.—A ring at the door-bell has been known to make a lady stick her head out of the window.—Hanky Panky.
One of the company having related a story which lauds his moral excellence, observe that, spite of his pretentions, you know what will hang him! At the end of his indignation—answer, a rope!
Squaring Accounts.—A day or two since an inveterate joker met his friend, Hanky Panky, Esq., in the street, whom he knows to be a great dog fancier. With a twinkle in his eye and an inquiring look in his countenance he anxiously asked him if he had seen the new breed of imported dogs, the “Sooner.” Professor Panky replied that he had not, and wished to know the peculiarity of the breed.
“They’d sooner stay in the house than go out of doors,” was the reply, as the joker cautiously moved away, shaking his sides and winking.
The prestidigitateur determined to be even, and the next time he met the joker he seriously remarked:
“You’ve been to Smith de Brown’s, haven’t you?”