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Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 505, 10 April 1869, Page 3

A regimental coffin-maker was asked whom he was making for, and mentioned the intended. " Why, he is not dead, man," said the querist. " Don't you trouble jourself," replied the other ; " Dr. Coe told us to make his coffin, and I guess he knows what he gave him." "Macduff ! what a strange appellation for a hen. Pray, madame, what led yon. to give her that name?" . "Because," said she, "1 wanted it to '\%y on.' " To Cure Fits. — For a fit of passion, walk into the open air. For a fit of idleness, count the ticking of the clock. For a fit of extravagance or folly, go to the workhouse. For a fit of ambition, go into a churchyard and read the gravestones. For a fit of repining, look about for the halt and the blind, and visit the bed-ridden and afflicted. The Duke of Grammont was the most adroifc and witty courtier of bis day. He entered one day the closet of the Cardinal Mazarin without being announced. His Eminence was amusing himself by jumping against the wall. To surprise a Prime Minister in so boyish an occupatiou was dangerous. A less skilful courtier might have stammered excuses and retired. But the Duke entered briskly, and cried, " I'll bet you one hundred crowns that I jump higher than you." He took care to jump a few inches lower than the Cardinal, and six months afterwards was marshal of. France.