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Find a joke ↓That clever and brilliant genius, McDougall, who represented California in the United States Senate, was like many others of his class somewhat addic…
Read the joke ↗POPE was one evening at Button's coffee-house, where he and a set of literati had got poring over a Latin manuscript, in which they had found a passa…
Read the joke ↗"The principal vegetable productions of the island are the pepper tree and the bread-fruit tree. Pepper being very abundantly produced, a benevolent …
Read the joke ↗THE celebrated John Wilkes attended a City dinner not long after his promotion to city honors. Among the guests was a noisy vulgar deputy, a great gl…
Read the joke ↗BISHOP BLOMFIELD, when presiding over the diocese of London, had occasion to call the attention of the Essex incumbents to the necessity of residing …
Read the joke ↗Mark Twain at a dinner at the Authors' Club said: "Speaking of fresh eggs, I am reminded of the town of Squash. In my early lecturing days I went to …
Read the joke ↗JERROLD and some friends were dining in a private room at a tavern. After dinner the landlord informed the company that the house was partly under re…
Read the joke ↗THE American General Lee, being one day at dinner where there were some Scotch officers, took occasion to say, that when he had got a glass too much,…
Read the joke ↗MR. BENSLEY, before he went on the stage, was a captain in the army. One day he met a Scotch officer who had been in the same regiment. The latter wa…
Read the joke ↗The Yankee had not ceased to advance, nor the dandy, in his astonishment, to retreat; and now the motion of the latter being accelerated by the appar…
Read the joke ↗ONCE a gentleman, who had the marvellous gift of shaping a great many things out of orange-peel, was displaying his abilities at a dinner-party befor…
Read the joke ↗FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and b…
Read the joke ↗MR. WESLEY, during his voyage to America, hearing an unusual noise in the cabin of General Oglethorpe (the Governor of Georgia, with whom he sailed),…
Read the joke ↗BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. …
Read the joke ↗THOUGH upon great occasions Burke was one of the most eloquent of men that ever sat in the British senate, he had in ordinary matters as much as any …
Read the joke ↗WHEN the Duke of Wellington was at Paris, as Commander of the Allied Armies, he was invited to dine with Cambaceres, one of the most distinguished st…
Read the joke ↗THE manager of a country theatre looked into the house between the acts, and turned with a face of dismay to the prompter, with the question of, "Why…
Read the joke ↗THE manager of a Scotch theatre, at which F.G. Cooke was playing _Macbeth_, seeing him greatly exhausted towards the close of the performance, offere…
Read the joke ↗BUBB DODDINGTON was very lethargic. Falling asleep one day, after dinner with Sir Richard Temple and Lord Cobham, the latter reproached Doddington wi…
Read the joke ↗ONE speaking of the fire of London, said, "Cannon Street roared, Bread Street was burnt to a crust, Crooked Lane was burnt straight, Addle Hill stagg…
Read the joke ↗Society, civilised society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It instinct…
Read the joke ↗There must be a new Hedonism that shall recreate life and save it from that harsh, uncomely Puritanism that is having, in our own day, its curious re…
Read the joke ↗A FEW weeks ago a wealthy family in Philadelphia, having hired a cook who had been highly recommended to them, she was ordered one day to prepare amo…
Read the joke ↗Among the coffee-drinkers a high place must be given to Bismarck. He liked coffee unadulterated. While with the Prussian Army in France he one day en…
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