Everything But The Weed

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Linda Maze, a Wedding photography Gainesville FL in Gainesville Florida

Humor is a topic that I have a lot of affinity for. Of course humor has been around since time perpetual. Here are a few jokes I found from the 19th and early 20th century. I present them for those of you who are interested in historical and evolutionary humor. Some of the humor might escape those of us of our century, but some of the humor is timeless as you will see.

A PAIR OF HUSBANDS.

A COUNTRY editor perpetrates the following upon the marriage of a Mr. Husband to the lady of his choice:

“This case is the strongest we have known in our life; The husband’s a husband, and so is the wife.”

ART CRITICISM.

AT a recent exhibition of paintings, a lady and her son were regarding with much interest, a picture which the catalogue designated as “Luther at the Diet of Worms.” Having descanted at some length upon its merits, the boy remarked, “Mother, I see Luther and the table, but where are the worms?”

INCONSIDERATE CLEANLINESS.

“BRING in the oysters I told you to open,” said the head of a household growing impatient. “There they are,” replied the Irish cook proudly. “It took me a long time to clean them; but I’ve done it, and thrown all the nasty insides into the strate.”

LARGE POCKET-BOOK.

THE most capacious pocket-book on record is the one mentioned by a coroner’s jury in Iowa, thus:–“We find the deceased came to his death by a visitation of God, and not by the hands of violence. We find upon the body a pocket-book containing $2, a check on Fletcher’s Bank for $250, and two horses, a wagon, and some butter, eggs, and feathers.”

SAFE MAN.

A POOR son of the Emerald Isle applied for employment to an avaricious hunks, who told him he employed no Irishmen; “for,” said he, “the last one died on my hands, and I was forced to bury him at my own expense.”

“Ah! your honour,” said Pat, brightening up, “and is that all? Then you’ll give me the place, for sure I can get a certificate that I niver died in the employ of any master I iver sarved.”

Stanley R Medley