A severe lady says: "Male is only mule spelt wrong.^/*^" --■.. A man named Vowel, w«s murdered in.cold blood in Tennessee. Q lad it was ; neither U nor I. • A good-natured spinster used .to boast that she always had two good beaux; they were elbows. ; . A school in New York State sets forth as its chief attraction—" Dull boys waked up and set a-going." . A pastor of a Congregational Church was once asked if he was an Independent minister; he replied, "Ear from itfl am the minister of an Independent pongregation," Sir George Ease's doctor once gravely assured him that he would lire to be a hundred; whereupon the baronet remarked, " Then I suppose my coffin may be called a ' c^nt'ry box. '"
A Georgia negro, who bet 10 dollars that GenerattWashington commanded the Federals at Bull Eun, handed the money over with the remark : " Well, di 3 ye'r hist'ry business is all mixed up anyway!"
Holmes disposed of the bigot at once, when he compared his mind to the pupil of! ithe eye;" The more/ light you letin to it the more it contracts. '
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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1749, 11 August 1874, Page 2
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