What is the difference between a spendthrift and a pillow? One is hard up, the other is soft down!
Which is the more valuable, a five-dollar note or five gold dollars? The note, because when you put it in your pocket you double it, and when you take it out again you see it increases.
It is often asked who introduced salt pork into the Navy. Noah, when he took Ham into the Ark.
Who was the first man? Chap. I.—mentioned in Genesis.
Who took in the first newspapers? Cain took A-Bell’s Life, and Joshua countermanded the Sun.
Why was Noah obliged to stoop on entering the Ark? Because, although the Ark was high, Noah was a higher ark (hierarch).
In what place did the cock crow so loud that all the world heard him? In the Ark.
What animal took the most luggage in the Ark, and which the least? The elephant, who had his trunk, while the fox and the cock had only a brush and comb between them.
Some one mentioning that “columba” was the Latin for a “dove,” it gave rise to the following: What is the difference between the Old World and the New? The former was discovered by Columba, who started from Noah; the latter by Columbus, who started from Ge-noa.