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Show A Desirable Plaie. We were seated in a fairly filled third class carriage not timed to make a stoppage stop-page for an hour or so, and during the first half of this period one of the passengers, pas-sengers, a 'very excitable and withal voluble individual, loudly inveighed against things in general and the places Le happened to have visited in particular. particu-lar. All at once a quiet and sedate old gentleman, -who had up to then sat silently si-lently in one corner, remarked: "How would yon like to live in place where no one drank any intoxicating intoxicat-ing liquor or ven smoked a cigar?" u woum oe excellent, replied the grumbler. "And where every one went to church on Sundays?" "That would be a delightful placa" "And where no one 6tole or forged or cheated?" "But such a place is impossible. Tell me, where is there such a perfect place?" "You will find it in any of her majesty's maj-esty's prisons," was the quiet reply, , and the grumbler was silent for the remainder re-mainder of the journey. London Tit- I Rita |
