_Ques._ When did carpenters first proclaim themselves to be intolerable dawdles?--_Ans._ When building the Ark--they took a hundred years over it. _Ques._ What sort of law is military law?--_Ans._ Can(n)on law. Some of the riddles have survived in the jocular mouth to the present day; for instance, who does not know this?--_Ques._ What smells most in an apothecary’s shop?--_Ans._ The nose. There is one conundrum which surprises us. The story was wont to be told by Bishop Wilberforce that he had asked a child in Sunday School why the angels ascended and descended on Jacob’s ladder, whereupon the child replied that they did so because they were moulting, and could not fly. But this appears in Hans Sachs’ book, and is evidently a very ancient joke indeed. In this collection also appears the riddle: “Which is heaviest, a pound of lead or a pound of feathers?” which everyone knows, but with an addition, which is an improvement. After the answer, “Each weighs a pound, and they are equal in weight,” the questioner says further: “Not so--try in water. The pound of feathers will float, and the pound of lead will sink.” _Ques._ How can you carry a jug of water in your hands on a broiling summer day, in the full blaze of the sun, so that the water shall not get hotter?--_Ans._ Let the water be boiling when you fill the jug. _Ques._ How can a farmer prevent the mice from stealing his corn?--_Ans._ By giving them his corn. _Ques._ A certain man left a penny by his will to be divided equally among his fifty relatives, each to have as much as the other, and each to be quite contented with what he got, and not envy any of the other legatees. How did the executor comply with this testamentary disposition?--_Ans._ He bought a packet of fifty tin-tacks with the penny, and hammered one into the back of each of the legatees.