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first, Amiridab the second, third, fourth and so on ?--No, Sir, my name is Jacob -- What are you? A merchant--What do you deal in? Vartieties of goods.--Do you keep a shop? --No. How then do you dispose of your Goods?--To the best advantage, my good fellow.

Mr. George Rose, when Secretary of the Treasury, being asked by an intimate friend. why he did not promote merit, with much simplicity retorted, Did merit promote me.

Mr. Serjeant Best, cross-examining a witness, asked him his profession: I am a Colourman, re- plied the man. Oh then, said the Serjeant, you are merely brought here in the way of your business, to give a colour to this transaction.

A person abusing another to Mr. Gifford, said he was so insufferably dull, that if you said a good thing he did not understand it. Pray, sir, said the satirist, did you ever try him?

A person who applied to a circulating library for a book which he wished to read, was told by the proprietor that the value of the took must be deposited--What! do I look so much unlike a gentleman that you suspect my honesty, exclaimed the other (reddening with anger.) Why indeed, sir, replied Folio very coolly, I can make no objection to your appearance; but I certainly object to the giving you so much credit as your taylor, or giving you that which is only due to Superfine cloth.