Lord Howe he came in!
After the great victory over the French, the following toast was much in vogue:
May the French know Howe to be master of the seas.
“How is it that you can tell such whoppers?” asked a caller, addressing the editor of the fish-story department.
“Well, you see,” replied the editor, “our wife’s name is Anna.”
“What has that to do with it?”
“A great deal. When we are writing fish stories we usually have Anna nigh us to help us.”
Two Quaker girls about to do some ironing on the same table, one asked the other which side she would take, the right or left. She answered promptly: “It will be right for me to take the left, and then it will be left for thee to take the right.”
How a French marshal conveyed an order under cover of a cough, in 1851, is told as follows:
The prevalence of coughs and colds at the present moment reminds me of the fact that it was a cough which was mainly responsible for the immense amount of bloodshed that attended the coup d’état whereby Napoleon III. obtained his throne.