"George I. was the son of the Electric Sophia."
"Isaac Walton was such a good fisherman that he was called 'the judicious hooker.'"
In the Science Class.—Not less amusing are the mistakes which arise during the "elementary science" lesson. Here are a few cases in point:—
"A vacuum is nothing shut up in a box. They have a way of pumping out the air. When all the air and everything else is shut out, naturally they are able to shut in nothing, where the air was before."
"A drug is any wholesome vegetable food for taking once in a way but not for regular food."
With the Little Babbages.—"Things which are double each other are greater than anything else."
"Circumference is a straight line round the middle of a plane."
"Two straight lines cannot enclose a space unless they are crooked."