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An Irish gentleman in company a few nights since, seeing that the lights were so dim as only to render the darkness visible, called out lustily, "Here, waiter, let me have a couple of daycent candles, just that I may see how these others burn!"

In an Irish court, Counsellor Egan interrogated a Dr. Fisher to the following effect:-Q. Where was you torn? A. I do not know.-Q Why do you not know? A. Because I do not remember it at all.-Q. Where do you believe you was born? A. At Augbestra, in Cumber- and.-Q. Where do you live? A. Here.-Q. What do you mean by here? A. Upon this table in the Court of Exchequer. I can give you no other answer upon oath, without perjury, for I certainly now live here.-Q. Where do you usually reside in Dublin? A. In Castle-street, at the corner of Fishamble-street! After some time of question and answer, the learned counsel, apparently angry, said, I am as good a scholar as you I know the Hebrew, the Chaldiac, the Arabic, and other Eastern languages. A I am upon my oath, and you are not ; and upon my oath, according to your own account, I never before was in the presence of so learned a man.