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A young brother lad espoused an old and ill-tempered wife; but ex- tremely rich. He used to say “Whenever I find my temper giving way, I retire to my closet, and console myself by reading her marriage settlement.”

A man thinking, he was at home a few evenings since, I lay down on the common and put his boots outside the gate to be blackened in the morning.- Another person, after getting home one rainy night, put his umbrelia, in bed, and leaned up in the corner himself.

Clocks that have stopped, by misrepresenting the time become paradoxes; they stand and lie simultaneously.