In many of the rural districts of the United States
In many of the rural districts of the United States where money does not circulate with great rapidity services are paid for "in kind." Farmers, for …
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Find a joke ↓In many of the rural districts of the United States where money does not circulate with great rapidity services are paid for "in kind." Farmers, for …
Read the joke ↗DR. HICKRINGAL, who was one of King Charles the Second's chaplains, whenever he preached before his Majesty, was sure to tell him of his faults from …
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Read the joke ↗THE late Duke of York is reported to have once consulted Abernethy. During the time his highness was in the room, the doctor stood before him with hi…
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Read the joke ↗DR. ABERNETHY, the celebrated physician, was never more displeased than by hearing a patient detail a long account of troubles. A woman, knowing Aber…
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Read the joke ↗AN eminent physician, and Fellow of the Royal Society, seeing over the door of a paltry ale-house, _The Crown and Thistle_, by Malcolm Mac Tavish, M.…
Read the joke ↗POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable on…
Read the joke ↗"You never can tell," said a traveling salesman. "Now you'd think that a little New England village, chock full of church influence and higher educat…
Read the joke ↗A PHYSICIAN calling one day on a gentleman who had been severely afflicted with the gout, found, to his surprise, the disease gone, and the patient r…
Read the joke ↗A well-known society performer volunteered to entertain a roomful of patients of the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, and made up a very successful littl…
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Read the joke ↗THE most celebrated wits and _bon vivants_ of the day graced the dinner-table of the late Dr. Kitchener, and, _inter alia_, the late George Colman, w…
Read the joke ↗THE most celebrated wits and _bon vivans_ of the day graced the dinner-table of the late Dr. Kitchiner, and, _inter alios_, the late George Colman, w…
Read the joke ↗An old lady in the London parish of the famous Doctor Gill made a nuisance of herself by constant interference in the affairs of others. As a gossip …
Read the joke ↗THE late Dr. Brand was remarkable for his spirit of contradiction. One extremely cold morning, in the month of January, he was addressed by a friend …
Read the joke ↗MR. BURKE, in speaking of the indisposition of Mr. Fox, which prevented his making a motion for an investigation into the conduct of Lord Sandwich, s…
Read the joke ↗THE Welsh formerly drank their ale, mead, or metheglin out of earthen vessels, glazed and painted, within and without, with _dainty devices_. A farme…
Read the joke ↗LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though inte…
Read the joke ↗"If an editor makes a mistake folks say he ought to be hung; but if a doctor makes a mistake he buries it and people dassent say nothing because doct…
Read the joke ↗A GENTLEMAN having sent a turbot as a present to Swift, the servant who carried it entered the doctor's study abruptly, and laying down the fish, sai…
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