What is a button? A small event that is always coming off.
What medicine ought to be given to misers? Anti-mony.
What was the cause of the potato rot? The rot-atory motion of the earth.
What is the end to which all like to come? A divid-end.
What is Hobson's choice? Mrs. Hobson.
Why should one never complain of the price of a car ticket? It is a fare thing.
Where does one see breakers ahead on land? In a railway station.
What is a heavy incidental expense? Having one's tooth filled.
What is the difference between forms and ceremonies? You sit upon one, and stand upon the other.
How do locomotives hear? Through their engin-eers.