Good name for a bull-dog—Agrippa.

Flying rumors are necessarily groundless.

Why ought Lent to pass very rapidly? Because there are so many fast days in it.

It is no sign because a man makes a stir in the community that he is a spoon.

What is that which must play before it can work? A fire-engine.

A man ever ready to scrape an acquaintance—The barber.

Hush money—The money paid the baby’s nurse.

When may you suppose an umbrella to be one mass of grease? When it’s dripping.

Bootblacks are friendly little fellows. They “take a shine” to anybody.

A dress for the concert-room—Organ-di muslin with fluted flounces.