An old lady, being told that a certain lawyer “was lying at the point of death,” exclaimed: “My Gracious! Won’t even death stop that man’s lying?”
Suppose you had a buggy-top and five cents, what would you do?
I would buy a fine comb.
A butcher-boy in Washington Market says he has often heard of the fore quarters of the globe, but never heard any person say anything about the hind quarters.
“What is it that goes with the train, stops when it stops, that’s no use to it, and yet it can’t go ten yards without it?”
“Give it up.”
“The noise!”