THE JOKER
Some French wit:—Reflection of a perspiring victim of the heated term, as he passes the Academy of Science—" Phew, how hot it is! So hot that I haven't even strength to go in here and put heads on all these frauds of scientists for pretending that the earth’s crust is cooling every year !"
A law made by Catherine Alexiowna, who became Empress of Russia in 1724, indicates the slight degree of civilization existing in that country at that period. It enacted, that women were not to get drunk—in public; and that men were not to get drunk—before nine o'clock in the evening."
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