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to be commended: No bread was produced but brown, as it was justly apprehended that his Lordship could not stomack Whitebread.

The Duke of Richmond being asked why he ordered a Captain's guard to mount near the kitchen, replied, that he wished to accustom the Officers of the Militia to stand fire.

In the year 1786, a Carpenter, whose name was Day, engaged to build a theatre at Sturbitch--Dr. Watson, at that time Chemical Professor at Cambridge, and afterwards Bishop of Landaff, objected to the erection of a Play-house in a town so near the University, and opposed it with such effect as to stop Master Day's career. On this occasion the following lines was written by one of the fellows of Trinity College. They tell us a tale, That in Askalon's vale Dan Jos stopt the Sun in his way: As great is the power Of Landaff at this hour, For he's finish'd the progress of Day.

That overgrown baby, the French fleet; said Prince Hoar, is so helpless, that Bonaparte finds himself obliged to keep her at Brest.

One man having asked another the way to some place was answered, Why if you go right up the next street, yon cannot go wrong.

A notorious pick-pocket of the name of Bell being once detected in the act of robbing a gentleman