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CONUNDRUMS.

1.

OW will a diet of herbs make a man healthy, wealthy, and wise?

2. What makes everybody sick but those who swallow it?

3. If Rowland Hill gave half-a-sovereign to each of his children, how would he resemble the setting sun?

4. Which has most legs, a horse, or no horse?

5. What is the difference between a cat and a comma?

6. Why is tea like this riddle?

7. What word is composed of three letters alone, Reads backwards and forwards the same; Without speech it can make all its sentiments known,

And to beauty lays principal claim?

8. What young ladies would you never take as partners?

9. When was there the same difference between Algiers and Malta as between light and darkness ?

10. Why are the Roman Catholics better off than the Scotch Presbyterians?

11. What is a curate's hope?

12. I give a cold, I cure it. Better still; When it is cured, I pay the doctor's bill.

13. What dish furnishes the best conversation?

14. What nations will always be cannibals?

J.

15. If a cat made a speech, what would be the best part of it?

R.

16. Why did Alexander Selkirk think the island of Juan Fernandez was inhabited ?

17. When does a lady drink in music?

18. How does a lady, making crooked lines in her accompt book, show that she manages her husband well?

J.

19. What vegetable most resembles a lady's tongue?

20. A man bought two fish at market and brought home three?

21. How did Lord Hardinge bribe the Sikhs?

22. Prove that ladies of the present day are very economical.

23. Why is a madman like two people at once?

24. Why is a clock the most humble of machines?

25. Why is it dangerous to keep a clock on a staircase?

26. What animal of the present day lived before the Creation ?

27. What is the most indigestible supper?

28. Why are verbs like teeth?

29. Why should an alderman wear a tartan waistcoat?

30. Why are there no eggs in Saint Domingo?

31. What is the difference between young ladies and other ladies?

THACKERAY.

32. If a gentleman wished to invite a friend and to remind him that he should come well dressed, in what Latin word could he express both wishes ? PUNCH.

33. Why is a postman in danger of losing his way ?

34. What part of a locomotive train requires the most careful attention?

35. Which newspapers are like delicate children?

36. Why cannot the Chelsea Pensioners hold a General Meeting?

37. Why must a magistrate be cold and chilly?

38. Why is a sick fowl like a shell-fish?

39. Why may a tallow-chandler easily cool himself in the height of summer?

40. Why is an acquitted prisoner like a gun?

41. What old colony is still called a recent discovery?

42. Why is the overland mail like a carrot?

43. Why is a nervous lady like a policeman?

44. When is a bill like a gun?

45. When is a luggage-van like a forest?

46. Why is picking a pocket like painting?

47. If you had a horse to sell, in what part of England should you expect him to fetch the best price?

48. Why were the French nation on Nov. 4, 1851, like Mr. Butler, who pommelled his fellow M.P.?

49. When Burford's Panorama was burned, why did that make him an orphan?

50. Why is part of Buckinghamshire like an oxgoad?

51. What young ladies are most likely to become thieves?

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