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 5          THE SORROW-DISPERSER.

one lot—-The Representatives of the County—- together with three Cows-in-Calf—-Lord Chandos, Young, and Harcourt—-The Malt Tax—- The Nobility and Clergy—-The Church-—A good stock of Tory humbug—-and many other usefularticles. ‘My son, hold up your head, and tell me who was the strongest man? ‘Jonah.' ‘Why so?' ‘Cause the whale could not hold him after he got him down.’ A Jew was observed noticing very intently a prodigious fine pork ham. 'What are you , saying to that ham, Master Jacobs?’ ‘I was saying to it, thou almost persuadest me to be a Christian.’ A New York paper says, ‘We once heard of a facetious person, whose name was New, who baptised his first child Something, as it was Something New. His second was baptised Nothing, it being Nothing New.’ Two friends, who had not seen each other for a long time, meeting by chance, one asked the other how he did. He said he was not very well, and that he had got married since he saw him. ‘This is good news, indeed,’ said he. ‘Not so good neither,’ replied the other, ‘for I have married a shrew.’ ‘That is bad, indeed,’ said the other. ‘Not so bad neither,’ said he, ‘for I got two thousand pounds with her.’ ‘That is w7ell again,’ said the other. ‘Not so well neither, for I laid it out in sheep, and they died of the rot.’ ‘That was hard, indeed,’ said his friend. ‘Not so hard neither,’ said he, ‘for I sold the skins for more money than the sheep cost.’ ‘That made you amends,’ said the other. ‘Not so much amends neither,’ said he, ‘for I laid out my money in a house,