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The following notice appeared on the west end of a church in Watling Street: 'Any person sticking bills against this church, will be prosecuted according to law, OR ANY OTHER NUISANCE.'

A horse-dealer, selling a nag, frequently observed, with much earnestness, that he was an honest horse. After the purchase, the gentleman asked him what he meant by an honest horse. 'Why, I'll tell you,' replied the Jockey. 'Whenever I rode him, he always threatened to throw mo; and hang me if he ever deceived me.'

An Englishman and a Welshman disputing in whose country was the best living, tho Welshman said, 'There is such noble housekeeping in Wales, that I have known about a dozen cooks employed at one wedding dinner.' 'Ah,' answered the Englishman, 'that was because every man toasted his own cheese.'

An Irishman having accidentally broken a pane of glass in a window, was making the best of his way out of sight; but, unfortunately for Pat, the proprietor stole a march on him; and having seized him by tho collar, exclaimed, You broke my window, fellow, did you not?' 'To be sure I did,' said Pat; 'and didn't you see mo running home for money to pay for it?'

I should just like to pay you off,' as John Bull said to the National Debt.

'I wish I could get things into the right train,' as the unprotected female said to herself, when she saw her luggage going away from her in all directions.

Why is a hen walking, like a conspiracy?-Because it's a foul proceeding.

What is the difference between a chicken with a wing and one without a wing ?-There is a differenco of a pinion (opinion).

We may set it down as an axiom, that young ladies cannot know everybody's name, when it is utterly impossible for them to know what their own may be a twelvemonth hence!

A Yankee student being asked how many genders there were, said 'three-masculine, feminine, and neutral; and defined them as follows:-Masculine, men; feminine, women; and neutral, old bachelors.'