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A fishy old fisher named Fischer Fished fish from the edge of a fissure; A cod, with a grin, Pulled the fisherman inNow they're fishing the fissure for Fischer. “I HOW IT IS PRONOUNCED? SAW by the papers the other day," said a Columbia College professor, "that a young woman in Virginia named R-o-u-g-h-b-o-u-g-h had shot a man who insulted her, and I wasn't so much interested in the tragedy as I was in how to pronounce her name. It looks simple enough at first blush, but when we come to consider the intricacies of 'ough' in English words, it becomes a problem beyond me. "Does she call it Ruffbuff, or Robuff, or Rowbuff, Roobuff, or Rowbo, or Rowboo, or Row bow, or Rooboo, or Roobow, or Robo, or Robow, or Roboo, or Ruffbo, or Ruffboo, or Ruffbow, orwhat the dickens does she call it, anyway?" IT FAITH AND GOOD WORKS. T was after the "station," and the parish priest and his curate were having breakfast, when the latter remarked, "We must catch that train." "Oh, never mind," said the P. P., who had a new watch, and was under the impression that it could not go wrong. "We have lots of time and my watch is right to the second." The curate, who was tired of hearing the P. P. extolling the good qualities of said watch, did not like to mention the subject again. To the great surprise of the P. P. they arrived at the railway station half an hour late. "Well! Well!" said he, "after the faith I had in my watch." "It would be far better," quietly remarked the curate, "if you had good works in it." 'N America," said the traveler, "it is considered wrong to have more than one wife." "It is not merely wrong," answered the Sultan, as he glanced apprehensively at the harem; "it's foolish." SH HOE CLERK BOARDER-How do you know she has been engaged before? Cravat Clerk Boarder-Because the upholstery of the sofa is all broken down at one end. 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