His Story Too Local

A teetotal lecturer at West Bromwich, in order to illustrate the horrors of drinking, told his audience a story of a wooden legged toper who was so drank one uight that he took off his wooden leg to wind the clook. The story was told in all simplicity by the lecturer as he had heard it in his childhood. Strauge to say, it applied exactly to the husband of a lady who happened to be one of the audieuce. After the lecture the lady waited on the lecturer behiud the hall. "Wretch!" she said. "How daré yon hold my husband to public ridicule?" . "But, my dear madam" - "Now don't deny it, for I heard you. " Scratch, scratch, scratch ! That lecturer is now undergoing repairs. He will be more careful of hischoiceof tions next