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Why is St. Giles's clock like a pelisse, and unlike a cloak?--Because it
shows the figure without confining the hands.
"STRICTOR."
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CORPORATION LEARNING.
The mayor of a country town, conceiving that the word _clause_ was in
the plural number, would often talk of a _claw_ in an act of parliament.
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A HUNDRED POUND NOTE.
The following pathetic soliloquy was found written on the back of a
hundred pound note of the National Bank, which passed through our hands
lately, and we are sorry we can now add our sympathies to those of our
poet on the transitory nature of those sublunary enjoyments:--
"A little while ye hae been mine;
Nae langer can I keep ye;
I fear ye'll ne'er be mine again,
Nor any ither like ye."
_Edinburgh Paper._
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FRENCH.--- ENGLISH.
_At Boulogne._
"NOTICE to Informe the gentries: Find Dogs and some to be sold."
_At Paris._
"M. Boursier, mershant, has the honour to give account at the English
and strangers, gentlemen and livings from East Indies, that he takes
charge of all species of goods or ventures, and all commissions.
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