Why are airship inventors like musicians? Because they bend all their energies to the conquest of the air.
Why are the speeches of an orator heard through a phonograph like the State House dome? Because they are hollow but illuminating.
Why is a discredited politician like an unpopular dentist? Because each has lost his pull.
Why are seeds when sown like gate-posts? Because they propagate.
Why is fashion like a blank cartridge? Because it's all powder and puff.
Why is the Fourth of July like oysters? Because we can't enjoy it without crackers.
Why ought women to be employed in a post-office? Because they know how to manage the mails (males).
Why do the recriminations of married couples resemble the sound of waves on the shore? Because they are murmurs of the tied (tide).
What have you now before you which would give you a company, a veiled lady, and a noisy toy? Co-nun-drum.
Why is a mother rocking her child to sleep liable to arrest? Because she is engaged in a kid-napping project.