14. What is the difference between Mario and Cardinal Wiseman? One performs mass in white and the other mass in yellow (Masaniello).
15. What is the difference between a pastry cook and a bill sticker? One puffs up paste and the other pastes up puffs.
16. Who was the first whistler, and what was his tune? The wind, when he whistled “Over the hills and far away.”
17. Why have fowls no future state? Because they have their next world in this world (necks twirled in this world).
18. Which is the easiest of the three professions? Divinity; because it is easier to preach than to practice.
19. Why are your nose and chin always at variance? Because words are continually passing between them.
20. What kind of vice is that which people shun if they are ever so bad? Ad-vice.
21. Why should a little man never marry a bouncing widow? Because he would be called “the widow’s mite.”
22. What is that which every one wishes for and yet tries to get rid of? A good appetite.
23. What kind of sweetmeats did they have in the Ark? Preserved pairs (pears).