Wit in Literary Circles.
A Gentleman, whose name stands very high in Albemarle Street and the Row, was reading out in a literary circle the announcement in the Athenaeum of a new work by Lady Charlotte Pepys to be called A Journey on a Plank from Kiew to Eaux Bonnes, when the Wiscount, who happened quite by accident to be present amongst literary gentlemen, cried out: “Like the notion amazingly! I’ve a good mind to do a companion to it, and call it, A Journey on the Knifeboard from Kew to ‘Olborn.” The meeting suddenly broke up.
SIMPLE, BUT AGRICULTURAL.
Q. What is the best time for sowing tares?
A. When the landlord goes round and collects his rents.
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Advice to Bachelors.- Eat cold pudding to settle your love; but don’t do anything which will induce you to settle your money.
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The Best Settlement for a Rich Wife who Elopes.- A Penal one.
A REPORTER’S READING OF IT ON JAN.21.
“The Great Tribulation Coming.” Parliament meets ob Tuesday!
Deserters at St. Martin’s-le-Grand.
We wish the postage-stamps were not cowards, and would not, from the want of a little gumption, keep dropping off, one by one, from their posts. We are sure if they would only begin to screw their courage up to the sticking-point, that we should be the first to back them.
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