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QUEER BLUMDHRS.
An orator, spooking of the prosperity
of'tilie country, declared “The young men
of Engl rind are the backbone of the Brit
ish Empire. What wo have to do is to
train that -backbone and bring it to
the front" .
A chimney mreeper, moving a few
*®P jn n street where he
did business had this *ign altered to bear
these, startling words : “J. Jones, chim*
ncy sweep from dtnm below/'
A tinsmith in the South of England
1ms n sign which rends : "Quart measures
of nil shapes nnd sizes sold here."
At a market town in the Midlands the
following placard wea affixed to the shut
’jers of a ;watchmaker xvho had* decamped,
jeaymg his confiding creditors mourning %
nVmmd up and Uie mhrasprmg broke/’
in speaking of a certain eminent juntos,
nmn a lecturer announced j ’fflis smooth
tongue is that of a sclent which lures out
to destroy, and which holds out* sugar
nlums m one band while in the other !ti
back"Un lin9,icntlici1 t*[Wr behind its
The following ndreriiseirtent appeared In
^ provincial paper i "For Salt—A Large
• *.. . U-Mt VT'llM*
Ttue^oope and* Guide to the iira
pwner, being Head, has no further
for them.
‘TUhe preneher for -next Sunday- will be
found nailed on the church door/' was
the startling announcement made .by n
Zf tUrat<? ofliciaU,,« in bis vicar’s ab
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