What is the difference between the wreck of a bank and the wreck of a ship? One is caused by the presence of rocks, the other by the scarcity of rocks.
What is that which we all can eat, and often drink, though it sometimes is a woman and often a man? We eat toast and drink a toast.
Why would a compliment from a chicken be an insult? Because it would be foul language.
Why is a cherry like a book? Because it is red (read).
Why are heavy showers like heavy drinkers? Because they usually begin with little drops.
What is that by losing an eye has nothing left but a nose? A noise.
Why is a four-quart jar like a lady’s side-saddle? Because it holds a gal-on (gallon).
Why is fashionable society like a warming-pan? Because it is highly polished but very hollow.
Why are balloons in the air like vagrants? Because they have no visible means of support.
What islands would form a dainty and cheerful luncheon for a party? Sandwich and Madeira.