A problem very easy of solution.
By an Indignant Young Lady, who is tired to death at the stupid rubbish that is indulged in at the expense of ladies’ dresses.
Given:- A Lady’s Crinoline, and a Gentleman’s Inverness Cape.
To Find Out:- Of which of the two the circumference is the greater.
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The stable Mind.- An ossy man, being in the Isle of Wight, and finding himself in the neighbourhood of the Laureate’s dwelling, goes to call upon the illustrious poet, for the purpose of seeing those bays of his which he has heard so much of.
Memorandum by a Mentor.- How annoying it is to find people prosper, instead of being ruined as we predicted they would, in consequence of having pursued their own course instead of following our advice!
Domestic Pete.- Never purchase a parrot without taking it a month upon trial. There is no knowing where the bird may have been brought up.
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Moral Lesson.- A conscientious old gentleman, induced to stand godfather to a friend’s baby, and wishing to typify the requisite renunciation of pomps and vanities, presents the little one with a set of wooden spoons.
Appropriate Address.- A poet, a native pf the “Land o’Cakes” wrote an Ode to the Owl, commencing with “Hoot Awa!”
Extremely Green.- Secret-drawers should never be made of green wood, or secrets, at least, should never be deposited in them, from the very great risk they run of splitting.
When is a man (lawyers included) like strong ale?
When he thinks no small beer of himself.
THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.
Boy. I say, Uncle, do flowers talk?
Wicked Uncle. Yes, my dear, they talk with tulips.
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