" And he went and did it; which is decidedly
interesting to Mr. BERGH.
* * * * *
An Interesting Patient.
New-Haven enjoys an elephant that has corns, and is about to be operated
on by a chiropodist. There is a largeness, approaching to sublimity, in
the idea of an elephant with corns, though it naturally suggests the
query, "What Boots it?"
* * * * *
A Dogged Problem.
If Sir WALTER SCOTT'S dog was worth--say--ten "pounds," what was his
Kenilworth?
* * * * *
CONDENSED CONGRESS.
SENATE.
The gentle CHANDLER is occasionally goaded to rage and rhetoric by
perfidious Albion. The other day he had one of these deliriums. In the
language of the bard.
He shook his fists and he tore his hair
Till they really felt afraid;
For they couldn't help thinking
the man had been drinking.
He wanted to annex the Winnipeg district. It was true that the Winnipeg
district was an unmitigated nuisance to England; and probably it would
prove an unmitigated nuisance to us if we annexed it. But it would make
Great Britain mad.
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