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O. What are the five greatest rarities to be found in the world Phoenix? A. A black Swan, a Pheonix, an                     Unicorn, the Philosophers Stone, and a maiden at sixteen.

Q. What is the greatest folly that sensible people can be guilty of?

A. To go to law about trifles, for, whatever way the plea end, the law- yers will be the greatest gainers.

Q. Who has the honestest trade in                     the world?

A. Ballad-singers; for they always deal with ready-money: and it is as                     ancient as the Siege of Troy, for Homer was a ballad singer.

Q. What is the surest method for one to become both rich and respectable?

A. To be sober and industrious.

Q. What is the best method of over- coming the argument of a positive person?

A. Either to say with him, or give him no answer.

Q. What is the wisest course to be                     followed by a man who has a brawling and scolding wife?

A. To keep silent, and then she'll                     bite her own fingers with anger.

END OF THE CARICHES.