What is Man?
The Quarterly makes answer,
"Chemically speaking, a man is 45 lbs. of carbon and nitrogen diffused through 5½ pailfuls of water."
This must be wrong. If no hemp, how do you get your Russian? If no wood, how do you get your Austrian? If no red-tape, how does Downing Street get her Englishmen?
A CON FROM THE SHAKSPEARIAN CLOWN.
Q. When Othello killed Desdemona, was he thinking of his Wife?
A. No—his (s)Mother.
The Great Eastern Question (at all political dinners). "Is there any Turkey left?"