.

QUES: What are a bill and answer? ANS: Ask my tailor.

QUES: How would you file a bill? ANS: I don't know, but would lay
the case before a blacksmith.

QUES: What steps would you take to dissolve an injunction? ANS: I
should put it into some very hot water, and let it remain there
until it was melted.

QUES: What are post-nuptial articles? ANS: Children.

QUES: What is simple larceny? ANS: Picking a pocket of a
handkerchief, and leaving a purse of money behind.'

We have had books on etiquette, of various kinds, lately, but a work of
this sort for prisons will be found, one would think, to supply an
important desideratum. GEORGE SELWYN, when a servant was sent to Newgate,
for stealing articles from the club-house of which SELWYN was a member,
was very much shocked: 'What a horrid report,' said he, 'the fellow will
give of us to the gentlemen in Newgate!' This feeling will doubtless be
more general by and by:

'IN consequence of complaints that have been made by persons
committed to prison before trial, who object to their not being
allowed to mix with other prisoners, it has been thought necessary
to frame a Book of Etiquette for prison purposes. Of course a
superior delinquent, like a forger, could not be on visiting terms
with a mere pick-pocket, nor could a man charged with stealing a
hundred pounds, feel at his ease in the society of one whose
alleged theft might be mean and insignificant. It is, we believe,
intended to introduce the prisoners to each other formally, not by
name, but by the offence with which they are charged. Thus, the
Governor of Newgate would say to Felony: 'Allow me to introduce
you to AGGRAVATED LARCENY. You ought to know each other--indeed
you ought. AGGRAVATED LARCENY, FELONY; FELONY, AGGRAVATED
LARCENY.' By a nice adjustment and proper application of the rules
of etiquette, a very admirable system of social intercourse might
be established in all our prisons, and the present complaint of a
want of 'good society,' which falls so severely on superior
scoundrels, would at once be got rid of.'

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DEAFNESS, although sometimes rather annoying--as for example in the case
mentioned in preceding pages by JOHN WATERS--is yet not without its
advantages. Your conversational ''Deaf BURKE,' who can endure any amount
of 'punishment' without being