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DIVINE WORSHIP.

When Archbishop Fenelon was Almoner to Louis XIV. his majesty was astonished one Sunday to find, instead of the usual crowded congregation, only himself and his attendants, the priest, and the other officers of the chapel.  “What is the meaning of this?” said the king; the prelate answered, “I caused it to be given out, that your majesty did not attend chapel to-day, in order that you might see, who came here to worship God, and who to flatter the king.”

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RUSTIC WIT.

A poor man, having disposed of the letters of his name, according to his own fancy, upon his tax-cart, was summoned for the offence, and for turning the act of parliament into ridicule, by having the following letters on his tax-cart:—­

    A MOST
   ODD ACT
  ON A TAX
     CART.

The poor fellow observed he was no scholar, but his name was Amos Todd, he lived at Acton, and he understood he was obliged to paint the letters, “A Tax-Cart.”

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PROMISES.

A young fellow of the Surface school was one day heard to boast that from his continually breaking his promises made to his creditors, they must imagine him to have been brought up in a court:—­“Yes,” replied a byestander, “the Insolvent’s Court.”

PHILO.

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