Most Indecorous.
The very rudest thing we ever heard of, as directed against a member of the respected aristocracy, was launched by the titled chairman at the Marylebone Rifle Meeting last week. He said that “there ought to be no distinction on account of the different social rank of the Volunteers.” This was all right. But he went on to sat, that at the time of the Chartist disturbances, “the Duke of Hamilton was between a footman and a chimney-sweep.” We believe that his Grace has since abandoned both professions.
What is Twaddle?
This question was asked in a police case that arose out of a stock-broker’s squabble. The person interrogated, though properly qualified to answer, for he was an Old Bailey barrister of great experience, declined to give the information demanded, but quietly continued that he could have given.
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Which is the Stoutest Man in the village?
The Grocer (grosser).
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