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Douglas Jerrold- one day met a Scotch gentleman whose name was Leitch, and who explained that he was not the popu lar caricaturist, John Leech. "1 am aware of that," replied the wit ; "you are the Scotch Leitch, with the i-t-c-h."

Wild fowl are said to be so numerous in lowa that thousands of them are killed by railroad trains running among them ; and not to be outdone, Norfolk, Va, boasts of an eagle with a bell on its neck hovering over the town.
An auctioneer, at a sale of antiquities, put up a helmet, with the following can did observation .—". — " This, ladies and gen tlemen, is ahelmetof Hoinulus, the Roman Fourder ; but whether he was a brass or .Iron founder, I cannot tell.
Sines Horace Grea'ey'snominati >r, every body seems to be trying to see how crooked and unintelligible he can write, in imita -fcion of 'that nominee.
