“Not yet, madam;—dynamite comes under the head of political economy.”
At a Charity Concert.—(The pianist is playing horribly out of tune.)—“What is that brute doing? I understand that it is a charity concert, but—all the same—”
“Why, that is just the reason he does not let his left hand know what his right is doing!”
At the Manœuvres.—Captain: I want all the corporals, without exception, to give the word of command together, and distinctly.
A moment after there is a general and vigorous shout of “Shoulder arms!”
Captain (furiously). I hear several corporals saying nothing at all!
This must be the same officer who said, the other day—“In Company B, I see a man who is not there!”
“Look here,” said the tenor, “I have sung in all the operas, and have always taken the principal parts—in Robert le Diable I was Robert; in Hernani, Hernani——”
“And in the Siege of Corinth?”
“Why, Corinth, of course!”