A man in Kentucky was so absent, that he put himself on the toasting-fork, and did not discover his mistake until he was done brown.


CONSISTENCY.

No wonder Tory landlords flout

“Fix’d Duty,” for ’tis plain,

With them the Anti-Corn-Law Bill

Must go against the grain.


The anticipated eruption of Mount Vesuvius is said to have been prevented by throwing a box of Holloway’s Ointment into the crater.