JAC-CO.

* * * * *

WIT AND JOKES.

Selden says, “Nature must be the ground work of wit and art, otherwise whatever is done will prove but Jack-pudding’s work.

“Wit must grow like fingers; if it be taken from others, ’tis like plums stuck upon black thorns; they are there for awhile, but they come to nothing.

“Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will be showing it, and so spoil it; like a child that will constantly be showing its fine new coat, till at length it all bedaubs it with its pah hands.

“Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots in meddling with great affairs of state.  They commonly do as the ape, that saw the gunner put bullets in the cannon, and was pleased with it, and he would be doing so too; at last he puts himself into the piece, and so both ape and bullet were shot away together.”

“The jokes, bon-mots, the little adventures, which may do very well (says Chesterfield) in one company will seem flat and tedious when related in another—­they are often ill-timed, and prefaced thus:  ’I will tell you an excellent thing.’  This raises expectations, which when absolutely disappointed, make the relator of this excellent thing look, very deservedly, like a fool.”

P.T.W.

* * * * *

FAT FOLKS.

Prince Harry and Falstaff, in Shakspeare, have carried the ridicule upon fat and lean as far as it will go.  Falstaff is humorously called Wool-Sack, Bed Presser, and Hill of Flesh; Harry, a Starveling, an Eel’s-skin, a Sheath, a Bow-case, and a Tuck.

* * * * *

Printed and published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset House,) London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic; and by all Newsmen and Booksellers.