N a conversation which happened to turn on railway accidents and the variety of human sufferings, a bank director observed that he always felt great interest in the case of a broken limb. "Then, I suppose," said ——, "for a compound fracture you feel compound interest."
W. Jerdan, Memoirs.
ON A CERTAIN POET.
HY verses are eternal, O my friend,
For he who reads them reads them to no end.
A Collection of Epigrams (1727).
NE day, coming late to dinner in the country, [Lady Charlotte Lindsay] excused herself by the "macadamnable" state of the roads.
Lord Houghton, Monographs.
